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Job# 6436
Job Title: Copywriter
Location: Minenapolis
Salary: DOQ
Benefits: Full
Please Reference: 6436 Copywriter
Copywriter
Job Objective:
A nationally recognized firm located in downtown Minneapolis, MN is seeking a Copywriter with a minimum of 8-10 years experience.
The formal job description says:
[The writer will] … work on a variety of creative projects, providing strategic solutions on entire company brands and initiatives …
What we’re looking for:
This person must have experience creating the strategies that build brands or drive marketing initiatives, plus the demonstrated ability to work directly with clients. Examples might be: developing positioning statements and messaging hierarchies, or creating a voice for a client or for specific project.
Our formal job description says:
… to individual items such as annual reports and identity programs, web sites, internal communications and marketing collateral …
What we’re looking for:
The candidate must have high-quality samples that prove his or her ability to write effectively across a broad range of formats and mediums. In order of importance, we’d like to see:
- long-format collateral (multi-page brochures with a good amount of written content)
- creative presentation materials (boards or decks written to help sell a brand strategy, campaign concept or other deliverable to a client)
- identity development (style guides, naming)
- short-form collateral (small brochures, catalogs or other materials with short copy blocks)
- advertising
- web sites
- video
Straightforward, well-organized writing is not enough; it is critical that we see conceptual work. The candidate should be able to show how he or she worked with a designer or art director to develop a concept, and how that concept is pulled all the way through a campaign or individual piece.
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:
Excellent writing, communication, project management and computer skills a must. Job includes client contact and working with internal project teams in a highly collaborative environment. You must be energetic, positive, friendly, and team oriented.
OTHER:
Fabulous perks include: a highly creative, collaborative and fun atmosphere, a competitive salary, paid parking and great benefits.
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