Head of Copy

UK (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own a high-impact copy engine by defining excellence, building scalable brand systems, and shaping a culture of critique and collaboration that drives messages to convert.

  • Establish standards for copy quality and lead by example to raise overall creative output.
  • Build and maintain brand and copy bibles, ensuring the team uses and trusts centralized systems.
  • Own campaign briefing and cross-touchpoint translation, turning qualitative and quantitative insights into compelling messages.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and protect what “great” copy looks like and elevate Bar for Copy Excellence.
  • Lead through doing, setting an undeniable standard with your own high-quality copy.
  • Build trust and establish seamless ways of working with creative leadership.
  • Create, update, and maintain foundational brand and copy bibles and ensure they’re used and effective.
  • Run copy critiques and foster collaboration to raise the team’s output.
  • Lead and translate campaign briefs across touchpoints, weaving qualitative and quantitative insights into messages that convert.

Requirements

  • Copy Mastery with a standout portfolio, including exceptional long-form sales copy that drives sales.
  • Proven Commercial Leader with deep experience building, scaling, leading, and coaching high-performing teams that deliver business impact.
  • Consumer-First Background with consumer-facing or creative agency experience; not a pure B2B background.
  • Data-Informed Creative Execution with hands-on exposure to sales feedback loops such as newsletters, social, or paid ads.
  • Copy Obsessive with a clear ability to articulate copy decisions down to specifics.
  • High Agency mindset, comfortable challenging senior stakeholders and the status quo to improve outcomes.

Benefits

  • 🌱 Why join ZOE? Work on meaningful health-impact problems, intersecting science, product, and growth.
  • Shape revenue and member journeys at a pivotal growth stage and collaborate with world-class scientists, designers, and technologists.
  • Remote-first environment built on trust and support.
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ZOE

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ZOE combines scientific research with cutting-edge AI to improve the health of millions. We are a remote-first, well-funded scale-up created by the world’s top scientists and backed by founders, investors, and entrepreneurs who have built multi-billion dollar tech companies. Our personalised nutrition program radically reimagines a fundamental human need – eating well for your body. Currently available in the US and the UK, ZOE is already helping tens of thousands of its members adopt a healthier lifestyle.Our collective work and expertise in biology, engineering, data science, and nutrition science have led to multiple breakthrough papers in leading scientific journals such as Nature Medicine, Science, The Lancet, and more.We value inclusivity, transparency, ownership, open-mindedness and diversity. We are passionate about delivering great results and learning in the open. We want our teams to have the freedom to make long-term, high-impact decisions, and the well-being of our teammates and the people around us is a top priority.

Founded in 2017
London, England, GBR
419 employees (58 in marketing)
91% recommend to a friend
83% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$63.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
58.4%
Direct
34.7%
Referral
4.2%
Social
2%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~419

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
36 (9% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$117.4M
Last Raise
$15M
Series B, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2024
    Series B • $15M
  • Mar 2023
    Series B • $2.5M
  • Dec 2022
    Equity Crowdfunding • $9.2M

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