Entertainment Media Content Copy Writer (Remote in US)

USA (Remote)

$65K/yr - $70K/yr (Est.)Mid LevelContract

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the calibration of entertainment copy for a defined brand voice, ensuring factual accuracy and genre-aligned tone across short-form content.

Content Ownership: Write and rewrite short-form copy for TV shows and movies with factual checks against plot and cast details.
Voice & Compliance: Maintain genre-appropriate tone and flag misaligned AI outputs or factual errors.
Workflow & Constraints: Manage a 20-hour weekly, remote freelance schedule with brand guidelines and style guides to hit character limits.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Write short-form content about TV shows, films, and entertainment titles in a defined brand voice
Rewrite AI-generated entertainment copy so it sounds natural, accurate, and tonally right for the genre
Research plot details, cast, episodes, and cultural context to keep every line factually correct
Match tone to the title — ensure genre conventions are reflected in copy
Flag AI responses that miss genre conventions, get facts wrong, or feel off in voice
Hours: ~20 hours per week, flexible schedule
Location: Remote, US-based (freelance contract)
Start date: Immediate

Requirements

Residence in Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, or Wisconsin.
Native or near-native conversational US English with strong control of tone, grammar, and register.
Comfortable writing inside a brand voice (publication, brand, or persona experience) rather than only in own voice.
A portfolio link, clippings, Substack, or published samples accompanying the application.
Structured short-form writing experience with character limits, style guides, and a high accuracy bar.
Background in English, Creative Writing, Journalism, Film/Media Studies, Theatre, or Communications is a plus.

Preferred

Genuine entertainment fluency across genres (e.g., anime, K-drama, horror, comedy) is a plus.

Welocalize

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For over 25 years, Welocalize has helped some of the world's largest organizations improve customer engagement through the power of localized content. Since our founding in 1997, we've been a leader in applying innovative technology and adopting AI to deliver the highest quality translations quickly, efficiently, and at scale. Our proven track record showcases tangible business outcomes, including higher marketing conversion rates, regulatory compliance, increased customer satisfaction and retention, intellectual property protection, higher adoption rates, and improved data with enhanced models.At the heart of our innovation is OPAL, our advanced Service Delivery Platform, ensuring every translation is fast, effortless, and impeccably accurate. This technology, combined with our extensive network of over 250,000 linguistic experts in more than 250 languages, allows us to deliver multilingual content transformation services that are unmatched in quality and relevance.Our global team of industry specialists is dedicated to enabling your teams to achieve global business outcomes. From translation and localization to NLP-enabled machine learning training data, and data annotation, we blend cutting-edge technology with human insight across every project.

Founded in 1997

New York, New York, USA

5.4K employees (1,871 in marketing)

www.welocalize.com

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