Junior Copywriter

About the Job...

Were looking for a junior writer whose brain and heart are of equal value.

Youve been called weird. People have never quite figured you out. You notice things others walk past. You make connections that dont make sense until suddenly theyre the only thing that makes sense. Youve spent most of your life feeling like you were tuned to a different frequency than everyone else.

Youre early. You know it. You havent had enough feedback to talk yourself out of your instincts yet. You will. Dont let it. The way you see the world right now is uniquely yours. Protect it.

Youll write across every partner we have every format every brief. Youll be in rooms where the ideas get made not waiting outside them.

Were employee-owned. When you join you have a real stake in what we become. Not an employee. An owner. For someone at your level thats unprecedented. Ask your tax person. (Oh yeah youre going to need a tax person now)

What the role requires:

• A body of work that makes us see and love your brain
• A point of view thats genuinely yours
• The hunger to prove it and the humility to earn it
• Four-day work week in the office Monday through Thursday in Portland Maine

About VIA

VIA means The Way in Latin. Weve been finding the way for 33 years - for our clients for ourselves and most importantly for the humans on the receiving end of our work.

We started with $4000 and a set of principles we wrote in a hotel bar in fifteen minutes. That was 1993. We still use the same principles. They are our lighthouse. They keep us off the rocks:

Be Curious.

Honor the Process.

Think Like the Audience.

Create Respect.

Be on Time.

Be on Budget.

Figure It Out.

Find the Magic.

Do Work That Makes You Proud.

Believe.

We believe in ideas with consequences. Ideas that dont just look good in a deck or win a room for an afternoon. Ideas that change what people do next. Ideas that move markets. Ideas that alter destinies.

Were 100% employee-owned. Every person here has a real stake in what we become. That changes what you fight for. What youre willing to put your name on. What done actually means.

Were based in Portland Maine. Four-day work week. Some of the best benefits of any company our size in America. A 200 year old library that we get to work in every day knowing its ours. Great schools. An ocean. A food scene that has no business being this good.