Direct Response Writer & Creative Lead

USA (Remote)

$130K/yr – $180K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive investor-focused campaign messaging and conversion-driven content with end-to-end ownership of big ideas, sequences, and testing.

  • Own end-to-end campaign concepts and messaging for investor-focused offers.
  • Must-have: 5+ years of direct response financial services copy
  • Standout: Ability to translate market narratives into urgent, investable opportunities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Generate original campaign concepts
  • Identify compelling market narratives
  • Shape how we position opportunities to our most engaged members
  • Developing Campaign Concepts (Big Ideas): Identifying timely market narratives and translating them into compelling campaign angles, often before they’re formally scoped.
  • Writing Conversion-Focused Copy: Crafting high-performing emails, landing pages, VSL scripts, and long-form sales experiences that guide members toward upgrade decisions.
  • Building Multi-Touch Campaigns: Developing sequences that build momentum, urgency, and conviction over time.
  • Owning the Testing Loop: Proposing variations, analyzing results, and iterating to improve performance and beat control.
  • Collaborating Cross-Functionally: Partnering with analysts, product, design, and compliance to refine messaging and bring campaigns to life.
  • Using AI as a Force Multiplier: Leveraging AI tools for research, ideation, drafting, and iteration—while owning the strategy, voice, and final output.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience writing direct response financial services copy
  • You understand the experienced investor mindset: You know how to speak to someone already in the market who’s evaluating their next move—not someone just getting started.
  • You’re fluent in financial narratives: You follow markets, understand what drives investor behavior, and can translate complex ideas into compelling opportunities.
  • You think in Big Ideas: You can take a broad theme—AI disruption, energy transition, biotech breakthroughs—and find the angle that makes it feel urgent and investable.
  • You’re performance-driven: You care deeply about results and continuously look for ways to improve them.
  • You’re data-fluent: You can interpret performance signals, form hypotheses, and apply learnings to future campaigns.
  • You embrace AI: You see it as a tool to expand your thinking and increase your output. You're genuinely curious about how it can make your work bigger than what any one writer could pull off alone.
  • You’re highly collaborative: You share ideas openly, give thoughtful feedback, and elevate the work of the team around you.
  • Writing samples that demonstrate long-form persuasion at scale—ideally a VSL script, order page, or multi-email campaign.
  • Evidence of financial markets knowledge—whether through your copy, your background, or both.
  • A willingness to work in an AI-assisted environment where the goal is output quality and conversion, not word count.
  • The successful candidate will be able to provide: Writing samples that demonstrate long-form persuasion at scale—ideally a VSL script, order page, or multi-email campaign.
  • Please note, no sponsorship is available for this position. You must reside in, or be willing to relocate to, one of these states for employment: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington DC, and Wisconsin.

Benefits

  • Flexible, remote work environment (*see our open states above)
  • No “vacation policy” (not to be confused with a “No vacation” policy)
  • Generous fully-paid parental leave
  • $1,000 annually to invest in stocks of your choice
  • Super low premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Comprehensive compensation package, including company equity
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