At SimpsonScarborough, we spend our days building brands that endure, inspire, and elevate the all-important work of colleges and universities in shaping our future. Recognized as a leader in the higher ed marketing industry, our company runs a fully remote team of approximately 65 employees coast to coast.
We are a growing team looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic new member. We expect a lot from our team members and champion their successes.
Requirements:
- Write compelling headlines, copy, and ‘calls to action’ for a range of brand creative deliverables, including media campaigns, social media content, printed materials, environmental branding, audio ads
- Write brand narratives that support and sell the underlying creative idea of a brand or campaign concept to the client and stakeholders. Contribute fresh, conceptual ideas that communicate a client’s strategic message in bold and engaging ways.
- Define brand voices that are joyfully disruptive and unapologetically distinctive in the market.
- Produce and deliver consistently high-quality creative work that’s smart, strategic, and human in a way that communicates the real emotional benefits of the messages our clients need to communicate. That’s how SimpsonScarborough produces results.
- Create effective verbal systems for brands and campaigns, as well as rubrics for use via brand guidelines.
- Work collaboratively with peers to sharpen conceptual ideas and executional details so that we’re consistently delivering high-value, high-impact creative work that the agency can take pride in.
- Provide words and phrases to collaborators on other teams who could use some support from a professional writer to make their work as powerful as possible for our clients. Share your contributions in these exchanges with your manager for visibility.
Qualifications:
- At least two years of agency copywriting experience is required.
- Any combination of education and relevant work experience.
- A competitive portfolio of creative work (copywriting) from the past two years.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and escalate deviations and changes when appropriate.
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and, at times, stressful environment.
- Comfortable collaborating with remote project teams nationwide.
