Are you a skilled copywriter who wants to write copy for companies that give a shit and are changing the world? How about working on a team of women for women-owned brands? How about working from home doing what you love for a company that cares about its people and provides some of the best benefits among online businesses? Then keep reading…

Uncanny Content, a full-service content and copy studio, is hiring a Lead Copywriter!

At Uncanny Content, we help female entrepreneurs grow their brands with intentional, strategic, and on-brand content & copy. We create an entire ecosystem of content for our clients and work on a retainer basis, at rates that are actually accessible and affordable for small business owners. Through our work with our clients, we’ve seen them stay present, grow their reach, and get better results from their launches or sales at the end of the day. We get to collaborate with our clients on a near-daily basis and we learn to love their business, their audience, and their voice. We love our holistic approach to copywriting, and quite honestly, so do our clients!  

Lead Copywriter 

Overview

Reporting to the CEO, you’ll be responsible for taking over \ content writing assignments with a wide range of clients, brand voices, and copy needs (sales page, blogs, social content, emails, white papers, etc). You’ll also collaborate with our close-knit team to get exceptional results for our kickass clients. 

• Time Commitment: Full-time- 40 hours per week preferred; we can do 25 hours per week part-time for the right candidate
• Compensation: for full-time, salary of $58,864
• Benefits: 
  • Healthcare stipend OR Childcare stipend 
  • PTO 
  • Sick days
  • Tech & office reimbursements
  • 401k match after 6 months of employment
  • Course & program purchases for development
• Location: Anywhere in the United States – this role is fully remote.
• Status: This role is a W2 Employee role. You must be available to be employed by our company and legally eligible to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

Daily: 

• Complete planned writing tasks with exceptional voice and attention to detail (writing blogs, emails, sales pages, social, content calendars, etc.)
• Check inbox to see if there are edits/requests from clients
• Communicate with any contractors you manage (eventually, not to start)

Weekly: 

• Check with clients to make sure everything is going out as planned — beyond just delivering content.
  • Ensuring that blogs and emails are going out and that everything on socials look according to plan.  
  •  Checking client stats and plans, adjusting for any changes in dates based on client plan or happenings in the world at large that can affect our content plan and execution.

Monthly: 

• Work with team to create client content calendars
• Review performance of past month’s content
• Assist team manager to adjust workload for upcoming projects
•  Share any trends or insights you’ve learned to help the team innovate!

This could be you if…

• You are interested in helping small online businesses grow and succeed.
• You want to be part of a dedicated, dynamic team that really wants to support YOU in your career and life.
• You love writing and enjoy flexing your skills to see how far you can push the envelope in content and copy.
• You have experience working with a variety of clients or accounts at the same time.
• You want to find new and exciting topics to research and explore.
• You want to WFH for a business that gives a shit about you and the businesses it supports.
• You don’t fit a traditional corporate job.
• You want to grow into a role with an expanding business, while also helping us see how we can make things better.
• You are focused when it’s time to write and can keep the train on the tracks when it comes to keeping up with writing assignments and staying organized
• You don’t have traditional copywriting training and want to flex your skills in different ways
• You can be extremely versatile in your copywriting
• You can produce content with a relatively quick turnaround time 
• You value kind and direct feedback
• You understand what a sales funnel is and have some experience with online business copywriting
• Adaptable is your middle name – you can adapt to a wide range of brand voices
• You are tried of freelancing and are ready to go all-in with a tight-knit team writing copy for businesses that are changing the world as we know it
• You crave variety in your writing assignments
• Swear words are pretty frequent in your vocabulary and aren’t afraid to use them in your copy
• You are punctual (we hate being late!) 
• You want to be a part of a team – you aren’t a lone wolf in your professional life

Why you’ll love it here: 

Our team is a group of badass women who love writing, supporting other women-owned businesses, and who love to explore new trends and tactics to get our clients seen. We have a smooth process from assignment to execution, and our clients love that we are dedicated to seeing their content strategy come to life. While we are a small business, we’ve grown exponentially over the last 2 years and we’re looking for another badass to join the team. We have a diverse client roster and specialize mostly in the online business world, helping women business owners market their businesses and (often) multiple brands within their business. We get to flex our creativity and adopt different voices in the course of a day, create different types of content and copy, and we see the fruits of our labor quickly — no waiting on projects to go live for months or watching them get stuck in siloes. We have a lot of fun, have a lot of attitude, and cheer each other (and our clients) on. We believe in that elusive work-life balance and believe that we are humans first. We support women, BIPOC communities, queer, nonbinary, and LGBTQIA+ individuals, and marginalized groups. We believe that this work matters because, when women succeed, they make a bigger difference in the world.

Software

• Asana
• Airtable
• Gmail
• Google Docs
• Google Sheets
• Grammarly
• Google Analytics/Google Keyword Planner

To apply 

If you’ve read this far & this sounds like you, click on this link to submit your application! https://airtable.com/shrFxo8PyJvTvuIyi

Process

We are accepting initial applications from now until Wednesday April 13th at 5pm MDT. 

We are a company that highly values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, LGBTQIA+, and those who hold marginalized identities not listed to apply, even if you don’t think you fit 100% of the criteria.

If you’ve been chosen to move forward to the interview, you’ll be notified shortly after your application is received. If you don’t hear from us, thank you so much for applying and we will keep your application for consideration in the future!

We’ll assess the top candidates in the following weeks (depending on how many applicants we have). If chosen, we’ll invite you to do a zoom interview.

We can’t wait to hear from you!