Responsibilities

• Actively collaborating with account leads and art directors in creating strategic marketing communications
• Brand concepts, email campaigns, collateral copy, websites and landing pages, video scripts
• Coming up with smart, insight-driven ad and campaign concepts
• Managing/reviewing the work of interns
• Proofing work before delivery
• Supporting the account team on client calls and presentations
• Engaging in constructive debate about creative ideas and how to address a client’s challenge
• Attending creative input meetings with account teams and/or clients when required
• Collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to produce on-brand and on-strategy copy
• Working closely with account/creative leads to help the agency sell its best thinking to clients

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years professional copywriting experience in an agency environment
• B2B and B2C copywriting experience (and samples to prove it)
• A passion for exceptional ideas and an almost-annoying commitment to quality
• Good understanding of fundamental advertising and marketing principles
• Develop strategic creative concepts that are in-line with current media trends
• Ability to pick up and emulate different brand tones/voices quickly and generate solid working drafts
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, independently managing own schedule, and reliably delivering strong work on time
• A well-worded portfolio reflecting short and long copy assignment work
• Generate copy and concepts for projects/campaigns to meet strategic marketing objectives
• Attend creative input meetings with account teams and/or clients when required

Preferred

• On-site preferred (Chicago River North) local candidates preferred