Marketing Copywriter Freelancer

theSkimm’

We’re hiring a Marketing Copywriter Freelancer (contract) to join our Growth Marketing team.

About our team and what we’ll build together

We’re looking for an experienced Marketing Copywriter Freelancer to join our team. We’re passionate about delivering a best-in-class experience for our users, and we know that lifecycle marketing plays a critical role in this mission. You’ll help us level up by taking a holistic look at our current programs, identifying opportunities for growth, and creating a roadmap to ensure long-term success.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team with a proven brand foundation while contributing to an ambitious and growing lifecycle marketing program. Together, we’ll work to engage and retain our users, helping them get the most out of everything we offer.

How you’ll contribute to our mission

• Create compelling and effective copy for marketing materials, such as website content, emails, and advertisements
• Work closely with the marketing and creative teams to understand the company’s brand and messaging, and create copy that aligns with the brand
• Collaborate with other departments, such as product, to create cohesive marketing materials
• Edit and proofread marketing materials to ensure accuracy and consistency

You’re ready for this! Here’s a bit more about what we’re looking for

• 5 years of experience in marketing copywriting or a related field
• Strong writing and editing skills, with a portfolio of writing samples
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with a team
• Time management and organizational skills

This is a short-term, contract position from April 1 through May 31. The expected rate for this role is $2,000 each month. We’ll consider a variety of factors when determining the offered base salary including an evaluation of a candidate’s skills, abilities, experience, location, market demands, and internal parity.

About the office

This is a short-term, contract position that is full-time. This role is based in New York, NY with flexibility for remote work. 

Our office is available to use three days a week — Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We have a hybrid environment and ask that full-time employees within the New York Metro area come together in person two days a week. All other days are up to the discretion of the employees during the days that the office will be open.

Our story, Skimm’d

We are a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. We make it easier to live smarter.

At our core, we are writers, editors, producers, designers, marketers, engineers, analysts, sellers, creatives, and strategists all working together to achieve this goal.

Every day we’re breaking down the news, trends, policies, and politics that impact women so that they can navigate their daily lives and futures – from managing their paychecks to casting their ballots – with confidence.  We provide our dedicated audience of millions with reliable, non-partisan, information, informing and empowering them while fitting into their daily routines. 

Since disrupting the media landscape and defining a new category a decade ago, theSkimm has become a trusted source for its audience of millions by seamlessly integrating into their existing routines, fundamentally changing the way they consume news and make decisions. Today theSkimm ecosystem includes the Daily Skimm, the Daily Skimm: Weekend, Skimm Money and Skimm Your Life newsletters, B2B marketer’s newsletter The SKM Report, the “9 to 5ish with theSkimm” podcast, and theSkimm mobile app. theSkimm also houses Skimm Studios which creates innovative in-house video and audio content, and our in-house creative agency SKM Lab, which conceptualizes, develops, and produces innovative solutions and content for brands to engage with generations of informed women. theSkimm's first book, How to Skimm Your Life, debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. Through Skimm Impact, theSkimm's our purpose-driven platform, the company is dedicated to creating change for women. We are proud to support get-out-the-vote efforts with Skimm Your Ballot, which has spurred over two million voting-related actions across the last four election cycles. We have mobilized hundreds of companies to join our #ShowUsYourLeave movement, which has created transparency and pushed for progress for Paid Family Leave in the U.S. And we’re empowering women to take agency of their lives and control of their futures through our State of Women initiative, grounded in a study conducted by The Harris Poll.

Come join us!

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