Own the Festival's digital content and UX copy across the platform and emails, coordinating CMS updates, and collaborating with teams to translate complex festival information into clear, audience-ready copy.

Write and edit UX copy for key pages and marketing assets
Project manage emails and platform content updates

Job Description

Responsibilities

The Festival Digital Content Manager, Marketing is charged with writing and editing clear and simple UX copy on Festival marketing promotional assets, such as the 2027 online Festival platform (festival.sundance.org), and project managing emails and marketing campaigns.
The Festival Digital Content Manager, Marketing will also work in the platform backend/Content Management System (CMS) to input copy and make regular updates to the website as necessary, ensuring all copy is proofread, updated, and clear for our audiences to understand.
Top priorities include but are not limited to…
Writing new UX copy for key Festival informational pages such as the homepage and How to Fest pages, and online marketing assets such as automated and targeted emails.
Interpreting the inner workings and complexity of the Festival logistics in order to return updated copy and formatting that clearly relays information to our audience on the platform (example: Ticketing page).
Writing intro blurbs for pages on the Festival platform such as the Festival Program Guide schedule and Venue pages.
Writing brief UX instructional copy as needed such as page headers and explanatory text.
Inputting regular copy updates in the platform backend/CMS and Wordpress, in a timely fashion.
Ensuring all copy on the platform is constantly proofread and updated.
Project managing emails, such as Festival newsletters and targeted emails.

Requirements

3 years experience in copywriting and editing content for print and online marketing assets.
Demonstrated experience in writing succinct and clear copy for large scale events or complex procedures.
Experience and comfort in understanding website UX.
Ability to transform complex information into easy to understand copy for our general audience.
Ability to collaborate across departments and meet deadlines.
Ability to think creatively and analytically in order to offer recommendations based on UX copy best practices.
Proficient in Microsoft products (Word, Excel, and Outlook) and content management systems (CMS); WordPress and Elementor preferred.
Strong project management skills.
Knowledge of HTML preferred.
Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Benefits

Paid sick leave and Institute holidays
Employee assistance program
Employee Wellness Initiatives
Sundance Film Festival passes and benefits (varies each year)

Sundance Institute

Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.All official communications from Sundance Institute, including those related to employment and professional opportunities, will only come from an email address ending in @sundance.org or from our official recruitment platform, ClearCompany Talent Management. Sundance Institute will never request credit card details, ask you to make a purchase with the promise of reimbursement, solicit funds in any form relating to job opportunities, or ask for resumes or other personally identifiable information outside of established and valid communication methods.

Founded in 1981

Park City, Utah, USA

594 employees (154 in marketing)

www.sundance.org

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors

481.2K

Monthly Google Ads Budget

$21.1K

Traffic Source Mix

41.6%

Direct

46.8%

Referral

6.1%

Social

3.8%

Paid

1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~595

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size

97 (16% of company)

Median Tenure

2.7 years

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