🥇 Missions
Day-to-day
Write copy to engage and persuade business audiences
Write copy to engage and persuade business audiences
Life-long
Move the world with words
Move the world with words
⚔️ Qualities & Capabilities
Here’s a checklist for success in this role.
- You are a creative mind, a lateral thinker, and an eloquent writer.
- You are insightful because you are inquisitive. You ask open-ended questions and listen with curiosity.
- You keep a notebook to jot down ideas, insights, lessons, and reminders.
- You enjoy learning new things to hone your mental sharpness and expand your repertoire.
- You read wide and deep, including books on business, strategy, psychology, marketing, branding, and advertising.
- You are keen on observing people, seeking to understand human behaviour, which helps you appreciate, empathize, and influence people.
- You are an independent yet collaborative team player. You bring ideas and perspectives to your team. You are open to feedback and change.
- You embrace debates and speak your mind without reluctance. You can disagree and still commit to your team’s decision.
- You are repulsed by mediocrity and thus driven to create great work.
- You love working with words―ideating, writing, rewriting, editing, and killing darlings until what remains is essential and enjoyable.
- You consider complex wording and unclear phrasing a product of lazy thinking.
- You demand good copy to be clear and concise―and push for witty and wise when you see fit.
- You can figure out what to write and how to write it―to suit any situation, audience, and medium.
- You can put your taste and style aside―to resonate with an intended audience for a desired outcome.
- You have at least five years of copywriting experience in the creative business of branding, marketing, and advertising.
- You are a composed communicator, able to articulate and present ideas to diverse clients and audiences.
- You can express a big-picture vision with keen attention to the smallest detail.
- You are tech-savvy and adaptable to new technologies and systems quickly.
- You are growth-minded and coachable.
- You are cultured, not snobby, confident, not egotistical, humorous, and not crass.
- You are a person of your word in every sense.
You embody the core values upheld at Pixel Dreams.
These are non-negotiables.
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Improve
Health
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Improve
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Seek
Wisdom
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Seek
Wisdom
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03.
Cultivate
Teamwork
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Cultivate
Teamwork
🛡 Responsibilities
Expectations of what you can and will do
- Research, write, review, and edit copy and content for any medium, format, and style (ads, videos, websites, emails, socials, speeches, stories, presentations, events, articles, blogs, landing pages, direct mailers, banners, and more)
- Contribute to vision, direction, execution, presentation, and delivery of campaigns and projects
- Understand client objectives, project constraints, and market context to hone ideas and develop recommendations
- Develop messaging framework and write copy for it
- Continue expanding your perspective and deepening your expertise
- Raise thought leadership for Pixel Dreams and our clientele
- Follow a creative process and help evolve it
- Embody creative excellence and help elevate it
- Take part in cultivating teamwork and nurturing company culture
- Teach others what you know
- Future: build, manage, lead, mentor and grow creative team (strategists, writers, and designers)
What you can expect in a typical day and week at work
- Attend company-wide morning and afternoon stand-ups
- Stay on top of your assignments and commitments
- Flow between deep work (working alone) and collaboration (working with teammates and clients)
- Help your team and clients remove obstacles and achieve goals
- Track your time invested at work
- Track your daily habits, weekly goals, and monthly study efforts
- Record key learnings and decisions in your journey’s doc
- Hold yourself accountable to the personal and professional goals you choose to share
- Express your gratitude for others (and hear others express theirs for you)
- Joke and laugh a lot with your teammates and clients
- Have social lunch together (when you come into one of our locations twice a week)
🌏 Opportunities
If you are the right fit for this role and company, your opportunities here are expansive.
- Enjoy fulfilling work and meaningful relationships (there will be unavoidable tedious work and sticky relational situations from time to time)
- Play a vital role in shaping the body of work produced by Pixel Dreams
- Write for our company and clientele, including global and local brands across industries (about 80% B2B and 20% B2C)
- Experiment with a diverse range of creative mediums and formats
- Collaborate with a cohesive and fast-moving team in a stimulating and ever-evolving environment
- Do your best work in a company committed to servant leadership, radical transparency, and kaizen operations
- Not waste time with organizational politics and interpersonal conflicts
- Study new things, and teach what you learn
- Pursue growth and leadership opportunities
- Make decisions, and see them through successes, failures, and lessons learned
- Become comfortable stepping out of your comfort zone, again and again
- Build and lead your creative team
- Grow by helping grow your team and company, your family and community, and your clients and their teams
- Find more avenues to make the world a better place
- Help raise human intelligence and consciousness
- Enjoy fair compensation commensurate with your performance
📑 Application
Believe you’re the one?
Let us know with a brief “letter” with
- Who you are, where you are from, and why you’re applying for this opening
- Share your favourite quote on copywriting/storytelling and another on leadership/management, and why they make your favourites
- List your three favourite comedians and why they blow your mind
- Include your portfolio or relevant links (PDF format only for attachment)
- Add anything you want us to know about you