Manager of Copywriting and Storytelling

USA (Remote)

$68K/yr – $78K/yrManager5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own audience-driven narrative and brand voice for youth-focused mental health advocacy, turning data into human stories that drive donations and engagement.

  • Audience-driven narrative: Own audience voice matrix to authentically engage youth, funders, supporters, and educators.
  • Data-to-story: Translate complex data and testimonials into human stories that move people to act.
  • Conversion & testing: Lead conversion-focused copy and A/B testing across ads, landing pages, and emails with design partners.

Job Description

Own audience-driven narrative and brand voice for youth-focused mental health advocacy, turning data into human stories that drive donations and engagement.

  • Movement-Building Campaigns: Lead, plan, and write clear, deeply creative, and emotionally resonant copy across a variety of mediums, including social media, digital ads, print collateral, TV/radio/video scripts, blogs, articles, website pages, emails, newsletters, and high-visibility press materials.
  • Audience-Based Narrative Strategy: Develop and maintain a nuanced voice matrix. Leverage audience insights to authentically engage youth and young adults, while seamlessly crafting compelling narratives that resonate with funders, donors, supporters and educators.
  • Translating Data to Stories: Take complex mental health statistics, programmatic impact data, youth and young adults input, academic information, testimonials and translate them into human-centric stories that move people to act, donate, or advocate.
  • Brand Voice Stewardship: Act as the ultimate protector of the Active Minds brand voice, maintaining and evolving our brand guidelines so that every touchpoint feels unmistakably "us."
  • Agile & Fun Response: Bring a sense of play and cultural relevance to fast-response copywriting. Lead the creative phrasing for pop culture moments, breaking news, viral social opportunities, website pop-ups, and urgent partnership pitches.
  • Conversion-Driven Creative: Direct and oversee the creation of high-converting advertising copy for landing pages, paid search, and social ads, ensuring a seamless transition from an ad click to an engagement.
  • Direct Response & Retention Narrative: Develop the copy strategy for emails, welcome series, and engagement funnels using direct-response techniques to combine empathetic storytelling with clear, urgent calls to action that drive measurable revenue and engagement.
  • Testing & Creative Iteration: Create ongoing headline, call-to-action (CTA), and copy-variant A/B testing. Analyze what copy actually moves the needle, and continuously iterate to maximize ad spend efficiency and deepen audience connection.
  • Visual-Textual Partnership: Brainstorm with graphic designers, marketing, PR to co-create brilliant campaigns where the strategy, words and imagery work together perfectly to move audiences and achieve goals.
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Active Minds, Inc.

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Active Minds is the largest nonprofit in the United States mobilizing youth and young adults to transform mental health norms across society. For more than 20 years, we have equipped the next generation of peer mental health advocates through a variety of programs, including the Active Minds Chapter Network, A.S.K., and Send Silence Packing. Our advocacy, initiatives, and campaigns foster lasting change in how youth view and discuss mental health, encouraging them to use their voices to influence broader conversations and inform mental health supports within their communities. Together, we are building a diverse movement of champions committed to improving mental health for all.

Founded in 2003
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
312 employees (48 in marketing)
58% recommend to a friend
72% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
57K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
49.5%
Direct
37%
Referral
7.1%
Social
5.9%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~317

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
43 (14% of company)
Median Career Experience
5 years
Median Tenure
2.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

Funding

Last Raise
Grant, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2024
    Grant