Digital Content Writer

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art • Los Angeles, CA

7d • $71,000 - $78,000

About The Position

The Digital Content Writer is a core member of the Lucas Museum’s growing Digital Product and Experience team, and will be responsible for producing clear, compelling, and mission-driven texts for distribution across the museum's digital channels. This role will support the full range of the museum's digital output, from rich, accessible writing that brings the museum’s exhibitions and artists to life to engaging marketing copy that invites the public in and drives conversions and engagement.
Reporting to the Director of Digital and working closely with the Digital Content Strategist and Senior Digital Producer, the Digital Content Writer will also collaborate across the museum’s Curatorial, Editorial, Marketing, Membership, and Development teams. While the department will draw on a network of freelancers to meet its ambitious digital goals, the Digital Content Writer will function as the museum’s primary internal wordsmith. In that capacity, they’ll craft text that embodies the museum’s belief that art should be accessible to everyone, show a genuine passion for narrative art and the people who make it, and help the museum speak in a distinctly human voice, free of pretense and jargon.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of professional writing experience, with a strong portfolio spanning multiple digital formats and audiences
• Demonstrated ability to write about art, culture, or history for general audiences
• Demonstrated track record of crafting successful digital content in a fast-paced, metrics-driven context
• Ability to adapt to feedback and develop copy to meet stakeholder expectations
• Experience working within structured digital content workflows, including review cycles with multiple stakeholders
• Experience writing for diverse audiences
• Excellent grammar, editing, and proofreading skills
• Strong research skills, including the ability to synthesize complex source material into clear, engaging prose
• Strong interview skills and comfort speaking with artists, scholars, and subject matter experts
• Strong appreciation for brand voice and tone, with an instinct for consistency and a sensitivity to register
• Strong organizational skills and ability to track multiple deadlines across concurrent assignments
• Proficiency in Airtable
• Collaborative working style, with comfort navigating feedback from multiple stakeholders
• Familiarity with content management systems and digital publishing workflows
• Comfortable working in structured CMS environments where content follows templates and established patterns

Nice To Haves

• Experience writing for museum, gallery, or cultural institutions
• Familiarity with writing for a diverse range of digital product formats: app content, audio/video scripts, UX and interface text
• Comfort navigating founder-driven environments, or build-phase institutional environments where processes are still being established
• Familiarity with project management tools such as ClickUp is a plus

Responsibilities

• Draws on existing curatorial texts and research to produce new content that effectively and memorably introduces digital audiences to the museum’s artworks, artists, and themes
• Conducts interviews with curators, artists, practitioners, and audience members to gather rich perspectives and details that help bring our artworks--and the stories they tell--to life
• Writes quickly and effectively across multiple digital formats and lengths, from brief, high-impact texts supporting digital products and interactives to traditional long-form editorial that tells the story of the museum, its founding, and its artworks, artists, and themes
• Participates in digital editorial planning and calendar development
• Supports the department’s multimedia production, contributing scripts, treatments, outlines, and supporting text
• Serves as a key custodian of the museum’s digital voice by ensuring consistency and accessibility across all published digital texts
• Effectively tailors messaging for different audience segments, ensuring clarity, accessibility, and consistency of voice across all touchpoints
• Continually works to integrate and extend founder and museum voice to emerging digital products and formats, maintaining consistency while adapting to new contexts
• Helps build and maintain digital-specific editorial guidelines
• Writes, edits, and proofreads clear, compelling, and on-brand copy across the museum’s digital marketing channels—including website, email campaigns, social media, print, and on-site materials—to drive audience engagement and support revenue-generating initiatives
• Develops and refines messaging that supports ticket sales, membership growth, fundraising campaigns, and public programs
• Monitors content performance and incorporates stakeholder feedback and performance insights (e.g., engagement metrics, campaign results) to refine and improve copy effectiveness over time
• Applies SEO best practices when writing and editing, and tracks emerging content optimization trends such as Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) or Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) to ensure texts are effectively indexed, cited, and summarized by AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees