Copywriter

Copywriter

This is a hybrid role to be based near one of our offices in New York City Austin Los Angeles or Oakland

About Us

We drive intelligent growth for ambitious businesses and leading brands.

Customer understanding is more potent and drives greater value when insights go to work directly within marketing and experience priorities. To give our clients that advantage we put an insights-driven operating system at the core of our design go-to-market and digital experience solutions.

Material clients make smarter growth choices because they can see clearly how and when to take the shots that count. Together we connect consumer intelligence with customer demand generation to build lasting profitable relationships.

The Opportunity

Were looking for a writer with strong instincts good taste and range.

Someone who can move between brand storytelling campaigns organic social scripts presentations and longform with curiosity and confidence. A writer who understands that good creative work isnt just clever its useful intentional emotionally intelligent and built to perform.

You should be equally excited by consumer brands and smart distinctive B2B work that sounds human. Youll work closely with creative directors strategists designers account teams and clients to develop ideas that are strategically grounded culturally aware and well-crafted from concept to execution.

Candidates should have native fluency in organic social: not just the platforms themselves but the behaviors references creators rhythms and unwritten rules that shape them. You should understand what earns attention what builds affinity and how to create original effective work in a landscape increasingly crowded by sameness and AI slop.

What Will You Do

Creative & Strategic Thinking

• Develop strong conceptual ideas across social digital video print and brand platforms

• Translate insights and strategy into clear compelling creative work

• Help build and adapt brand voices with consistency precision and originality

• Understand how writing supports broader brand and business goals

• Contribute to presentations and creative discussions with thoughtful perspective

Writing & Craft

• Write confidently across formats: campaigns scripts social headlines presentations web messaging and longform

• Understand pacing structure tone and how language works alongside design motion and sound

• Edit carefully and maintain strong standards for grammar clarity and detail

• Bring equal energy to foundational work outlines messaging frameworks UX copy as to headline ideas

• Develop instincts for when to push language and when simplicity is more effective

Social & Cultural Fluency

• Strong understanding of the organic social landscape and evolving platform behaviors

• Good instincts for what feels current resonant and worth paying attention to

• Curiosity about language culture media design and emerging trends

• Ability to create work that feels culturally aware without forcing relevance

Collaboration & Leadership

• Collaborate effectively with creative directors strategists designers account teams and clients

• Present work with clarity confidence and openness to feedback

• Respond well to critique and contribute constructively to creative development

• Build trust through reliability accountability and follow-through

• Contribute positively to team culture and the quality of the work

Execution & Accountability

• Manage more than one assignment while maintaining quality and attention to detail

• Stay adaptable as priorities feedback and project needs evolve

• Balance creative ambition with responsiveness and practicality

• Deliver work that is polished thoughtful and on brief under tight timelines

Who Are You

A writer with strong instincts good taste and the range to move between brand storytelling campaigns organic social scripts presentations and longform with curiosity and confidence.

• Understands how creative work supports broader brand and business goals

• Fluent in organic social audience behavior and contemporary culture

• Deploys language thoughtfully; pays attention to details references and tone

• Can build on existing brand voices while developing original ideas and perspectives

• Thinks strategically writes clearly and edits carefully

• Collaborates well across creative strategy account and client teams

• Curious about AI human behavior and emerging technologies

Required Skills

• 24 years of experience in an agency studio editorial or brand environment

• A portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking and versatility across formats and brand voices

• Good understanding of organic social digital culture and contemporary storytelling

• Experience with lifestyle retail or fashion brands that appeal to individuals and families

• Strong writing fundamentals paired with strategic thinking and creative range

• Ability to move comfortably between consumer-facing and B2B communications

• Experience presenting work internally or to clients is a plus

• Software skills in: Google Workspace Microsoft 365 Figma ChatGPT Gemini and Notebook LM

Why work for Material

• Material is a global company and we work with best-of-class brands worldwide.We also create and launch new brands and products putting innovation and value creation at the center of our practice. Our clients are in the top of their class across industry sectors from technology to retail transportation finance and healthcare.
• Material employees join a peer group of exceptionally talented colleaguesacross the company the country and even the world. We develop capabilities craft and leading-edge market offerings across seven global practices including strategy and insights design data & analytics technology and tracking. Our engagement management team makes it all hum for clients.
• A community focused on learning and making an impact.Material is an outcomes focused company. Wecreate experiences that matter create new value and make a difference in our clients lives and their customers lives.
  

PayRange:$60000.00 $68000.00

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Material. Actual range for this position may differ depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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