Part-Time Copy Editor, Brand Voice

Responsibilities

• Edit and proofread copy for the website, email, social, packaging and retail
• Sharpen headlines, product descriptions and campaign lines with our marketing and creative team
• Tell us when something sounds generic, overwritten, or like a machine wrote it
• Help build out our voice guidelines so the whole team writes like one brand

Requirements

• You’re the person friends send their cover letters to
• You have strong grammar and editing skills, and you notice when a sentence has one word too many
• You’ve written or edited brand, marketing or consumer copy
• You can make a product description interesting without exaggerating
• You can juggle a few projects at once and you’re comfortable in a small, fast-moving team
• You’ve worked with marketing, design or ecommerce teams (a plus)
• You know AP or Chicago style (a plus)
• A degree in English, Communications, Journalism or Marketing is great. So is equivalent experience.

Preferred

• You’ve worked with marketing, design or ecommerce teams (a plus)
• You know AP or Chicago style (a plus)
• Rowing is a plus, not a requirement.

Benefits

• A voice framework to work from, and a team that takes edits well
• Direct work with the founders