Brand Voice and Copy Lead

USA (Remote)

$150K/yr – $180K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Propel’s brand voice evolution and copy across product, marketing, and growth, including AI-assisted tooling and cross-functional enablement.

  • Lead the refresh of Propel’s voice guidelines and train the internal LLM on them
  • Must-have: 6–10 years of copywriting/brand storytelling experience with a strong portfolio
  • Standout: Ability to align voice across brand, product, and growth with AI-assisted scaling

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the refresh of Propel’s voice & tone guidelines, creating a clear, modern, emotionally resonant voice grounded in our people-first strategy
  • Own and train Propel’s internal LLM on our refreshed voice guidelines
  • Build tools, templates, and training that make the voice easy for cross-functional teams to adopt
  • Own core creative copywriting across brand, marketing, growth, design, and product including ads, campaigns, scripts, landing pages, social content, and website copy
  • Work closely with brand, product, growth, lifecycle, and CX to ensure cohesive storytelling across the funnel
  • Shape ideas from 0→1, providing structure, clarity, and taste
  • Edit and QA copy across teams to ensure quality and alignment
  • Create evergreen creative ideas for social and always-on brand storytelling

Requirements

  • 6–10 years of experience in copywriting, brand storytelling, or creative writing, either at consumer tech companies or a blend of startup and agency experience
  • A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual thinking, campaigns, headlines, scripts, and end-to-end storytelling
  • Equally comfortable setting creative direction and rolling up sleeves to execute
  • Comfortable using AI for drafting, editing, and scaling content
  • Experience partnering closely with designers and creative directors; comfortable concepting and pitching ideas
  • Ability to write high-performing marketing copy across paid, social, product marketing, and owned channels
  • Comfortable reviewing and coaching other writers, providing feedback without formal management responsibilities
  • Strong operational instincts: able to build templates, playbooks, and systems that elevate writing quality at scale

Preferred

  • Experience training or guiding AI/LLMs on voice & tone is a plus

Benefits

  • Meaningful work and a strong shared sense of mission
  • Remote-friendly work environment with a dog-friendly office in Downtown Brooklyn. The team meets in-person for optional retreats a few times per year.
  • 20 Days of PTO
  • 4% 401K match
  • $10k lifetime spend towards Carrot Fertility
  • Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision options
  • Other health and mental health focused benefits and perks
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Propel, Inc

Propel is a tech company that’s strengthening the social safety net for people who receive government benefits. Over 5 million Americans trust the free Propel app to check their EBT balance, save money, and get updates about their benefits. Propel has partnered with renowned institutions and organizations like GoFundMe and GiveDirectly. The company is backed by world-class investors like Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, JPMorganChase, Kevin Durant, and Serena Williams.

Founded in 2014
Brooklyn, New York, USA
115 employees (17 in marketing)