Senior Copywriter

Seattle/Portland
Are you the grammar police amongst your friends? Do you have a solid stance on the Oxford comma?

Yesler is hiring a Senior Copywriter to help with its ever-expanding business! Senior Copywriters draft all kinds of collateral-from ads to blogs to eBooks and case studies-for a variety of clients as part of an integrated marketing team. Duties include working with other roles in Creative, including designers, web staff, editors, and other writers; conducting research and interviews; crafting story structure and flexing tone to address the intended audience; writing to style; and helping to improve the Yesler writing process overall.

The Senior Copywriter will flex to support collaborative and efficient team work and have a role in setting and ensuring that collaborative, productive work process. They maintain an open and creative posture to problem solving. Responding and incorporating feedback with grace is a trademark feature of the role

Responsibilities:

• Understand Yesler's creative service offering in a holistic way
• Understand Yesler's capabilities across the agency
• Be part of the creative process and offer strong recommendations to produce the best work for our clients
• Write in clear, engaging, and persuasive manner. 
• Help develop best practices to improve writing and content development processes.
• Research new and emerging topics using available resources.
• Confidently interview customers, clients, subject matter experts, and others to gather information.
• Write a variety of content types, including:
  • Blogs
  • Business articles
  • Case studies, customer stories
  • Ebooks
  • Marketing collateral
  • Presentation speaker notes and slide content
  • Social copy, ads, and headlines
  • Web, email, and landing page content

• Collaborate and consult with a large team of account managers, content strategists, art directors, designers, editors, and other writers.
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices as content evolves for mobile technology
• Maintain consistent level of quality across projects and schedules.
• Support all-up company goals and integration with other groups.
• Generate new ideas and seek new responsibilities/learning opportunities.
• Advocate for quality and the writing process.

Requirements

• A degree in English (composition or literature), communications, or marketing preferred.
• 5+ years' experience in an agency, newsroom, or similar fast-paced setting.
• Detail-oriented, with an ability to self-edit
• Expert knowledge of grammar and spelling
• Ability to establish and maintain tone; provide guidance to others to help them shift to tone or design to tone
• Experience working in the Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite a plus
• Experience applying strategies across different digital channels
• Comfort with learning and troubleshooting new tools and software as processes change
• Ability to communicate clearly and provide constructive direction and feedback
• Understanding of a mobile-first approach and what it means for content to be digital ready a plus
• Can thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
• Sense of humor, humility, and confidence required

About Yesler:

Yesler is a B2B marketing agency that blends strategy, creativity, and technology to build demand, engage customers, and grow revenue. From offices in Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, and Toronto, we're a team of more than 200 strategists, designers, technologists, media experts, and analysts who are on a mission to change the marketing status quo. We take an integrated approach to serving the entire marketing organization-not only the strategies, content, and programs to create demand but also the infrastructure, operations, and project management required to execute, measure, and optimize for results.

Yesler has been recognized as a great place to work, and the awards keep rolling in. We've earned more than 19 Best Workplace Awards over the last decade, placement on the Inc. Magazine list of America's Fastest Growing Companies for five years in a row, and we were named one of the Top 50 B2B Marketing Agencies by Chief Marketer in 2016 and 2017.

Our mission is to positively impact the people we work with, the people we work for, and the communities we live in. We support our mission by providing an inclusive environment where all are empowered to share their diverse perspectives and experiences, so we can ultimately be better together.

Our policies, practices, programs, activities and decisions regarding employment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, volunteerism, and internships are not based on a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, mental or physical disability, ancestry, military discharge status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, source of income, parental status, housing status, or other protected status. We strongly encourage women, people of color, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ community to apply.

Visit yesler.com to learn more, or follow us on Twitter @yeslerb2b.com