Jr. Copywriter

Home Chef • Chicago, IL

2d

About The Position

Home Chef is seeking a Jr. Copywriter to join the marketing department and write across brands and channels, including digital advertising, lifecycle marketing, video, and social content. The role creates clear, engaging, persuasive, and on-brand copy for marketing emails, retail and point-of-purchase signage, Home Chef web pages, digital advertisements, social channels, company collateral, campaign videos, and other projects as needed. The Copywriter uses the company style guide and helps evolve it as the company’s needs grow.

The role collaborates with creative, design, marketing, retail, and product teams to develop content, improve workload efficiencies, and deliver work within deadlines. It includes participating in brainstorming, translating creative briefs into content, developing innovative solutions, and creating native content that drives measurable results. The position requires 0–10% travel.

Requirements

• Completion of a four-year degree program; a bachelor's degree is specified in the experience qualifications.
• At least 1 year of copywriting experience for a brand or consumer-facing company.
• Ability to write persuasively in formal and social voices and communicate in the Home Chef brand voice.
• Ability to write in multiple formats and lengths, using both engaging, emotive and transactional/directive tones.
• Proofreading and editing skills.
• Responsible, confident, autonomous, proactive approach with attention to detail and ability to plan ahead for future projects.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, complete tasks in a timely manner, and manage multitasking and interruptions.
• Creativity and imagination, with the ability to produce innovative and original ideas.
• Experience with 360 marketing campaigns and direct and transactional digital channels.
• Openness to receiving feedback.
• Ability to synthesize strategic messages and multiple opinions into consumer-friendly copy.

Nice To Haves

• Food industry experience.
• Ad agency experience.

Responsibilities

• Create best-in-class native content and bring forward-thinking ideas to life to drive measurable results.
• Write clear, engaging copy for videos and still images across multiple formats and lengths.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions, develop innovative solutions to creative challenges, and find ways to communicate unique messages.
• Interpret creative briefs and write clear, engaging, persuasive, and on-brand copy for marketing emails, retail/POP signage, web pages, digital advertisements, social channels, company collateral, campaign videos, and other projects as needed.
• Use the existing style guide and help evolve it to accommodate the company’s needs.
• Collaborate with creative, design, marketing, retail, and product teams to create content, develop workload efficiencies, and coordinate output.
• Complete work within deadlines and balance tasks, time, multitasking, and interruptions.
• Travel 0–10% as required.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Paid holidays
• Sick time
• Vacation time
• 401(k) program and 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses
• Customer promotion: $30 off a first order with promo code PEOPLE30

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level