Marketing Editorial Copywriter

Boston, MA (Hybrid)

$50K/yr – $55K/yrMid Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own Milk Street editorial voice across email, product pages, and cookbook content, coordinating with buying/test teams to sharpen positioning and angles that drive eCommerce and cookbook sales.

  • Content ownership: product descriptions, landing pages, and store emails across multiple channels.
  • Cross-functional cycles: align testing notes, assets, and approvals with buying, testing, and design teams.
  • Channel optimization: refine email cadences, advertorial formats, and content to maximize conversions and engagement.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Master Milk Street’s voice across platforms to execute high-impact marketing materials.
  • Draft and deliver 2–3 daily advertorial emails.
  • Write and copyedit product descriptions on cookware, tools and pantry goods, plus in-depth proprietary product landing pages.
  • Coordinate product testing and notes with buying and testing teams to understand key attributes and angles for product and email content.
  • Write, copyedit and approve weekly cookbook emails.
  • Pitch, ideate and execute new concepts, sales and formats for Store website and advertorial email calendar.
  • Track art, graphic needs and assets for product pages, email promotions and Store website.
  • Write, copyedit and proofread cross-departmental emails and ad-hoc content as needed.

Requirements

  • Education: A Bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, marketing, communications or a related field.
  • Experience: 1–3 years minimum writing experience. Previous writing work in a culinary, culture or eCommerce/marketing capacity is a plus.
  • Writing: Strong writing and proofreading skills; mastery of AP style; and ability to adopt brand voice.
  • Food forward: Experience in a professional kitchen or extensive experience as a home cook or recipe developer.
  • Deadline oriented: A proven ability to juggle deadlines, manage several projects and work in a fast-paced environment, across a cross-functional team. Must have excellent organizational skills.

Preferred

  • A passion for cooking, cuisine and global foodways.
  • Experience collaborating and communicating across organizational tools, like Quip, AirTable and Slack.
  • Experience using digital asset management tools, like Air.
  • A keen eye for aesthetics, photography and design, plus how they interact with copy.
  • An interest in retail and eCommerce.

Benefits

  • Boston office: Due our hybrid structure, two to three days per week in our Downtown Boston office are required. There is often delicious food on offer from our testing kitchen, new products to test and sample, large quarterly giveaways and more.
  • Employee discounts and subscriptions: You will receive an employee discount for our online store, as well as a free Insider membership, copies of all of our new cookbooks and a subscription to our magazine.
  • Other Benefits:
  • - Three weeks vacation
  • - Twelve company holidays
  • - Half-day summer Fridays (Memorial Day through Labor Day)
  • - Health, dental and vision plans offered
  • - 401K savings plan offered
Christopher Kimball's Milk Street logo

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street in downtown Boston — at 177 Milk Street — is home to our magazine’s editorial offices and our cooking school. It also is where we record Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street television and radio shows. Milk Street is changing how we cook by searching the world for bold, simple recipes and techniques. Adapted and tested for home cooks everywhere, these lessons are the backbone of what we call the new home cooking.

Founded in 2016
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
46 employees (23 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
600.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$896
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.8%
Direct
57.3%
Referral
4.4%
Social
6.5%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~47

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (37% of company)

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