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Copywriter
Location: Chicago, Illinois; Remote
Copywriter
Come Join FINN Partners, a leading firm in the digital marketing space, dedicated to leveraging innovative technologies and strategies to drive growth for our clients. We are seeking an experienced Copywriter.
The opportunity: The growing 40+ person creative team at FINN Partners needs a copywriting ace who can deftly execute a wide range of assignments for our Fortune 500 clients.
We’re looking for someone who is:
- A simplifier. You can take something technical and complex and boil it down to easy-to-understand, conversational language that people find engaging.
- Versatile. You can write anything from pithy headlines and engaging social copy to video content, case studies and white papers.
- Hungry. You can’t wait to dig into any kind of writing assignment – no matter what it is – because you see everything as an opportunity.
- A quick study. It doesn’t take you long to master a client’s voice.
- A proprietor. You take ownership of your work, proactively seeing it through from concept to completion without a lot of handholding.
- A visual thinker. You enjoy partnering with an art director/designer to determine information hierarchy and the best way to communicate a message.
- Outwardly curious. You ask lots of good questions in an effort to fully understand the client’s business.
- A good juggler. You’re an organized multi-tasker who can balance a full plate of assignments.
- Ambitious. You are interested in building your career and eventually assuming a client-facing leadership role on an account.
- Keen collaborator. You’re a fun, positive, team player.
What you’ll be a part of:
- An established, growing agency with a team that works hard, plays nice and strives to create work that makes a positive impact on the world around us.
- A team of talented experts in their craft, eager to support each other and our clients.
- Leadership that cares about your success and career.
- A culture that values diversity and work-life balance.
- An agency that is focused on the goal of achieving creative excellence.
Where will you work?
Wherever you are. And in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays…if you want.
We’re a remote workplace (with optional in-office days). We have US offices in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, LA, Nashville, New York, Vancouver, WA and Washington, DC – each with their own vibe – and a bunch of others abroad.
NOTE: Flexibility to work Pacific time hours a plus
What we’ll ask of you:
- Collaborate with art directors, strategists, and other team members to develop multi-channel creative concepts that are on strategy and reflect the tone of the brand.
- Distill complex technical information into conversational, easy-to-understand, engaging copy and content for various platforms, including websites, blogs, social media, email campaigns, infographics, collateral, case studies, video, whitepapers, etc.
- Conduct thorough research on industry-related topics and current trends to generate ideas for new content.
- Write copy from concept to completion based on input from client, agency team, and your own proactive research.
- Take ownership of your projects from start to finish, maintaining a consistently high standard of work.
- Be highly organized and able to manage multiple projects across multiple clients, regularly reporting their status to your project leads.
- Collaborate with designers/art directors to determine the hierarchy of content and most effective, engaging way to communicate messaging.
- Be able to work solo on some projects when needed with little handholding.
- Regularly attend client meetings to better understand their brand and business and build trusting relationships.
- Effectively present work to your supervisor, agency team and clients.
- Embrace a team culture, built on positive, productive working relationships.
Qualifications:
- A portfolio of work demonstrating your multi-channel writing skills (Required)
- 3-5 years of experience working within a creative department, either at an agency or on the client-side.
- Experience with financial services or any highly regulated industry is a plus
- A working understanding of large matrixed organizations, and what it means to write for one.
- Proficiency with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PPT), G Suite (Docs, slides).
Anticipated Salary: 55,000-75,000
Commensurate with experience and depending upon workplace location.
To Apply:
Please upload your resume, including a link to your creative portfolio, and a cover letter.
While we appreciate the interest of all candidates, we will only respond to those with whom we have a greater interest.
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About FINN Partners:
FINN Partners is a great place to work, but don’t take our word for it. We’ve been voted “#1 Best Agency to Work For” in the Extra-Large Agency Category by PR Week. Plus, FINN has ranked in the top five nearly every year since our founding a decade ago.
Our intrepid crew shares an entrepreneurial spirit that attracts talent from agencies large and small. Interestingly, we often welcome former colleagues back to the fold after they’ve confirmed the grass is not greener elsewhere, or they return as clients when they want to work with the best. All choose FINN because of our cause-minded approach, collaborative culture, commitment to excellence, ethical leadership and exciting roster of clients. Our people are deeply loyal to FINN because the FINN team is deeply loyal to each other. FINN is committed to representing a different breed of agency.
Will you join us?