Performance Marketing Copywriter- Direct Mail & Digital

USA (Remote)

$53K/yr – $70K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own the development of persuasive, direct-response messaging across mail and digital channels, guiding concepts, testing, and optimization while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

  • Lead messaging across direct mail and digital campaigns
  • Incorporate audience insights and test results

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Write persuasive direct response copy for direct mail campaigns including letters, postcards, self-mailers, statement inserts, acquisition kits, and customer communications.
  • Develop digital content for email campaigns, landing pages, websites, display advertising, paid social, online video, and customer lifecycle communications.
  • Translate creative briefs, audience insights, business objectives, and compliance requirements into effective customer-facing messaging.
  • Create messaging frameworks, campaign concepts, headlines, offers, calls-to-action, and content variations.
  • Ensure message consistency and alignment across all customer touchpoints and channels.
  • Partner closely with Creative Directors, Designers, Strategists, Analytics teams, Account teams, and Production specialists.
  • Participate in campaign planning, brainstorming, and concept development sessions.
  • Leverage audience insights, testing results, and campaign performance data to refine messaging strategies.
  • Present creative concepts and messaging recommendations to internal stakeholders and clients.
  • Incorporate stakeholder feedback while preserving messaging effectiveness and campaign objectives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, English, Advertising, or related field.
  • 3 to 5 years of professional copywriting experience, with demonstrated ownership of direct response campaigns, within an agency, financial services organization, insurance company, marketing organization, or integrated creative team.
  • Strong direct response copywriting experience across direct mail and digital marketing channels.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing complete direct response campaigns across direct mail and digital channels, including letters, offers, calls to action, and test variations.
  • Exceptional writing, editing, proofreading, and storytelling skills.
  • Strong understanding of customer acquisition, retention, and lifecycle marketing.
  • Experience collaborating within cross-functional creative and marketing teams.
  • Demonstrated proficiency utilizing AI-powered tools to improve content development speed, creative quality, workflow efficiency, and campaign results.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience supporting insurance, banking, lending, fintech, wealth management, healthcare, or other regulated industries.

Preferred

  • Experience supporting insurance, banking, lending, fintech, wealth management, healthcare, or other regulated industries.
  • Experience writing for direct response marketing programs.
  • Experience developing email marketing, website, landing page, paid media, and direct mail content.
  • Proficiency with AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Gemini, or similar content-generation and creative-assistance tools.
  • Experience applying AI to content testing, personalization, optimization, and campaign development.
  • Understanding of AI governance, prompt engineering, intellectual property considerations, and responsible AI practices.
  • Familiarity with customer journey mapping and performance marketing methodologies.

Benefits

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Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character.Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments.At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations.Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale.Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact.We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition.At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward.For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.

Founded in 2000
New York, New York, USA
50K employees (471 in marketing)
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Salaries

Posted range

$53K/yr – $70K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$150M
Last Raise
$150M
Post IPO Debt, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2018
    Post IPO Debt • $150M
  • Dec 2004
    Series Unknown
  • Jan 2002
    Private Equity

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Monthly Google Ads Budget
$111.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.7%
Direct
45.6%
Referral
8.7%
Social
1.5%
Paid
0.5%

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