Copywriter

Lexington, KY (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the core copy production across multiple formats, ensuring tone, clarity, and audience fit while collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape concepts and protect against unclear language.

  • Collaborate with Creative, Digital, Social, and Account teams to translate client problems into clear, audience-focused messaging.
  • Craft and refine copy across headlines, long-form content, ads, and campaigns with attention to brand voice.
  • Question, simplify, and push back on jargon to sharpen every word and meet project goals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Quickly craft clean copy—from headlines and supporting text to long-form blogs and articles—that meets the needs of the project.
  • Proofread final art proofs, reports, proposals, even emails (if the occasion calls for it).
  • Collaborate with Creative, Digital, Social, and Account teams to develop project concepts.
  • Write all sorts of things: social posts, blogs, articles, ads (print and digital), billboards, email campaigns, press releases, talking points, messaging, broadcast/radio scripts, taglines, proposals, boxes, cards, and anything else that uses words.
  • Research clients, industries, and business problems to develop a strong understanding of each project and determine how to meet the needs of each brand’s audience.
  • Understand and work fluently within each client’s voice, speaking to each audience individually.
  • Actively correct and push back against jargon, acronyms, and any sort of unclear communication.
  • Ask a lot of questions, including the questions others won’t think to ask.

Requirements

  • At least two years of marketing copywriting experience, preferably in an agency setting.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Communications, English, Journalism, Marketing or related field.
  • Mind-boggling writing skills, both short- and long-form.
  • Exceptional ability to write in the proper tone, feeling, sentence structure, and emotion.
  • Ability to balance both an incredible attention to detail with a big-picture view of projects and problems.
  • Strong, creative problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written (obviously) and verbal.
  • Self-starter who is at home with all forms of media: broadcast/digital/social/print.
  • DĂŠmonstrated ability to work effectively with people at all levels within the company.
  • Be nice, even under stress.
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Zipie

Zipie is a full-service digital marketing agency based in Lexington, Kentucky.We help businesses solve problems.As a full-service digital marketing agency, we can tackle anything you need. We have the minds to come up with wild, creative ideas, and the services to execute every last inch of the strategy we build for you. We think marketing works best when all the pieces, services, and brains work together. That’s how we roll.Here’s how we do things:1. We’re straightforward.2. We’re strategic.3. We’re not stuck in our ways.4. We do what you can’t.5. We have it all.6. We don’t know everything.7. We love what we do.Let’s get started.

Founded in 2013
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
3 employees (1 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
653
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.2%
Direct
34.5%
Referral
13.3%
Social
6.2%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1 (33% of company)