Copywriter, Phyton Talent Advisors – $30/hr – $35/hr
Our Client a well known Financial Services Firm is seeking a Copywriter in the El Segundo, California Location!
Core Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with internal subject-matter experts, teams, and stakeholders across the organization, including senior leadership, as well as external contractors and vendors to create, update, or improve marketing-focused copy promoting products and services
• Be a custodian of the brand voice and contribute to its evolution across all media
• Work with designers to ensure layouts, designs, images, and other visuals align with the brand while enhancing content and making it easier to access
• Create, enrich, and update content website.
• Interview members of the more than 12,000 financial professionals supports to create peer-to-peer success stories, explore how they are benefiting from our services, and collaborate on new marketing materials
• Review trade publications, articles, and research to synthesize new ideas and create original thought leadership content
• Brainstorm language, designs, and communication strategies with internal teams and stakeholders
• Monitor competitor communications and publications
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with internal subject-matter experts, teams, and stakeholders across the organization, including senior leadership, as well as external contractors and vendors to create, update, or improve marketing-focused copy promoting products and services
• Be a custodian of the brand voice and contribute to its evolution across all media
• Work with designers to ensure layouts, designs, images, and other visuals align with the brand while enhancing content and making it easier to access
• Create, enrich, and update content
• Interview members of the more than 12,000 financial professionals supports to create peer-to-peer success stories, explore how they are benefiting from our services, and collaborate on new marketing materials
• Review trade publications, articles, and research to synthesize new ideas and create original thought leadership content
• Brainstorm language, designs, and communication strategies with internal teams and stakeholders
• Monitor competitor communications and publications to help ensure remains differentiated within the financial services space
• Take initiative and manage working on several projects concurrently, juggling multiple and sometimes tight deadlines, and keeping stakeholders and reviewers informed of progress
• Be willing to collaborate, ask questions, share perspective, and incorporate feedback to strengthen the quality and value of your successive drafts, and help others improve theirs
• Other duties as assigned
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Digital portfolio of a wide array of published work
• Punctilious writing and editing skills, with a sharp eye for clarity and consistency
• Ability to manage multiple, often complex projects and deadlines concurrently
• Facility with both long-form content (white papers, brochures, articles) and short-form pieces (web banners, headlines, social media posts)
• Ability to find the “big idea” within every communication, and communicate in a way your reader or viewer can, too
• Desire to work within a collaborative environment
• Ability to juggle unwavering respect for the input and ideas of others with an unwavering commitment to upholding the standards of the brand
• Ease and comfort working across all strata of the organization, including senior leadership
• Facility writing across the full spectrum of voices from marketing to corporate, and an understanding of when to use each
• Proficiency within the Microsoft Office suite of products
Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Experience within the financial services industry
• Knowledge of SEO/keyword search best practices to increase online visibility
• Experience with the Drupal content management system
• Proficiency/experience with Adobe design and media tools, in particular Marketo Engage, InDesign, Spark, Premiere, and Audition
• A portfolio of less-corporate work demonstrating the ability to convey a narrative and hold an audience’s interests, such as fiction writing, short films, animations, graphics, and the like remains differentiated within the financial services space
• Take initiative and manage working on several projects concurrently, juggling multiple and sometimes tight deadlines, and keeping stakeholders and reviewers informed of progress
• Be willing to collaborate, ask questions, share perspective, and incorporate feedback to strengthen the quality and value of your successive drafts, and help others improve theirs
• Other duties as assigned
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Digital portfolio of a wide array of published work
• Punctilious writing and editing skills, with a sharp eye for clarity and consistency
• Ability to manage multiple, often complex projects and deadlines concurrently
• Facility with both long-form content (white papers, brochures, articles) and short-form pieces (web banners, headlines, social media posts)
• Ability to find the “big idea” within every communication, and communicate in a way your reader or viewer can, too
• Desire to work within a collaborative environment
• Ability to juggle unwavering respect for the input and ideas of others with an unwavering commitment to upholding the standards
• Ease and comfort working across all strata of the organization, including senior leadership
• Facility writing across the full spectrum of voices from marketing to corporate, and an understanding of when to use each
• Proficiency within the Microsoft Office suite of products
Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Experience within the financial services industry
• Knowledge of SEO/keyword search best practices to increase online visibility
• Experience with the Drupal content management system
• Proficiency/experience with Adobe design and media tools, in particular Marketo Engage, InDesign, Spark, Premiere, and Audition
• A portfolio of less-corporate work demonstrating the ability to convey a narrative and hold an audience’s interests, such as fiction writing, short films, animations, graphics, and the like