Senior Copywriter

USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive integrated creative campaigns and brand storytelling as a senior copywriter/creative lead, shaping narratives and mentoring peers.

  • Must-have: 7+ years in creative with 5+ years as copywriter and a strong portfolio.
  • Standout: comfortable with AI as product/channel and experience with prompt engineers.
  • Standout: leadership in client-facing storytelling and mentoring junior creatives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of brand narratives, campaign ideas, and written executions for integrated and non-traditional campaigns spanning digital, experiential, content, and innovation-driven projects.
  • Work under ACDs/CDs to drive projects from concept through execution, translating strategy into compelling ideas and messaging while delivering strategically sound, client-ready work.
  • Collaborate closely with art directors, designers, strategists, technologists, and experience teams to develop concepts and bring them to life with exceptional craft and clarity.
  • Champion the brand voice, and also the voice of the consumer, giving ideas and work authenticity and a human dimension.
  • Ensure the quality and impact of writing meets both agency and client standards.
  • Step up into client facetime, writing and crafting the decks and getting clients hyped about the work, while listening to feedback and translating into creative action.
  • Be the senior creative in the room: solve problems, bring lateral thinking, support leadership and mentor more junior creatives (not just the writers).
  • Don’t just follow culture. Love it and know what’s real and what’s hype. Don’t just follow technology. Tinker, critique and always ask “what’s exciting about this?”
  • Inspire teammates through curiosity, experimentation, and a strong maker mentality.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of creative industry experience (or relevant equivalent), with at least 5+ years as a copywriter (or comparable level).
  • A portfolio of culturally relevant and insight-grounded work that includes narrative and comms, social and integrated, experiential and product writing and ideation.
  • Comfortable with AI, not just as a creative toolkit but as a product and channel. You’ve worked with prompt engineers and you’ve crafted a few yourself, building agents with personality as well as function.
  • Expert in conceiving and executing narratives through compelling content formats, including social, experiential, digital and retail.
  • You think holistically about brands and have experience crafting how they come to life through a persona, tone and voice, purpose, and positioning that inform copy guidelines and messaging toolkits as well as content and editorial strategies and franchises.
  • A creatively holistic point of view, respecting design, strategy and tech without always staying in your lane.
  • Strong presentation ability (IRL and virtual). You can convey a cohesive narrative to sell ideas.
  • Skilled in design tools, particularly Figma, and the spectrum of writing and presentation tools (including Microsoft 365, Google, Keynote).
  • An understanding of emerging technologies and concepts.

Preferred

Benefits

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dotdotdash

dotdotdash is a global experience innovation agency, helping brands create new paradigms. Backed by Omnicom, we’re an international team of dreamers and makers crafting distinct, connected and impactful experiences across the entire brand ecosystem. Our methodology decodes signals from culture, technology, and human behavior to identify opportunities for new ideas, experiences, and growth for our partners. These insights inform our approach to designing for the senses and building connected ecosystems that unite brand, product, and content.

Founded in 2015
Los Angeles, California, USA
43 employees (20 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
223.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24%
Direct
46.4%
Referral
6.2%
Social
22.1%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~43

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6 (14% of company)