✒️ Marketing Copywriter

  • Location: Toronto
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Salary: $70,000 - $90,000 / year

Casting Call

Marketing Copywriter who:

  • Loves splashing around in the words, yours and theirs.
  • Has a knack for living inside different voices.
  • Knows when it needs wings and when it needs to walk.

ScopeWhat’s in the role.

Mission

Bring the words that sharpen insights, shape ideas, and solve briefs.

Responsibilities

  • Write in a variety of styles and voices, formal to irreverent, and beyond.
  • Copy edit with a balance of adaptability and attention to detail.
  • Translate briefs and brands into effective copy, stories, and content.
  • Collaborate with project teams from early ideation to final delivery.
  • Craft social media blasts, keynote decks, ebooks, emails, and more.
  • Champion the defined creative direction and messaging strategies.
  • Lead copy discussions, presentations, and execution.
  • Own the craft, quality, and coherence of the work.
  • Report to and support the Story Team Lead.

Rewards

  • Salary range of $70K – $90K
  • Clear path to career advancement, salary increases, and bonuses.
  • Benefits package (family, health, wellness, dental, vision, prescription, etc.).
  • Paid time-off (holidays, vacation days, sick and wellness days, etc.).
  • Work in a flexible hybrid model, with 3 days in-office.
  • Friendly office environment, personal space, and a fully stocked kitchen.
  • And more to support the whole you.

Casting Criteria

Culture AlignmentWhat we aspire to.

  • Team player in it for the long game.
  • Lifelong learner with a growth mindset. 
  • Personal and professional development, supporting the same for others.
  • Aim for excellence. Don’t be complacent. Go to 11.
  • Welcome open, direct communication and feedback.
  • Embrace the occasionally  messy reality of a rapidly growing and dynamic workplace. Lean in with optimism and responsibility.
  • Embody a strong back, soft front, open mind, light heart, high EQ, and enduring grit.
  • Respect and reflect the company’s core values.

Competency + ProficiencyHow you rock the role.

  • Ask timely, effective questions.
  • Embrace ambiguity as raw materials for clarity.
  • Simplify complexity into clear, concise, and compelling language. 
  • Write effectively for any purpose, audience, brand, and format.
  • Understand enough behavioural psychology to nudge perceptions.
  • Balance a rich vocabulary with the discipline to write simply. 
  • Edit your own work (and the work of others) fastidiously.
  • Stand by your best ideas while staying open to better ones. 
  • Pay attention to every detail. Remove the ones that aren’t needed.
  • Use AI to enhance deep thinking, not replace it.
  • Present your work to clients with enthusiasm, grounded by solid rationale
  • Work independently and collaboratively with equal enthusiasm.

SuitabilityHow to qualify for this role.

Must-haves

  • Competency and proficiency as outlined above.
  • A mix of inquisitive, creative, and critical thinking.
  • A deep love and a keen eye for the written word.
  • Portfolio with work samples showing craft, range, wisdom, and ingenuity.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in marketing copywriting on the agency or client side.
  • Experience with creative marketing and communications.

Great-to-haves

  • Expertise in B2B marketing and executive-level communications.
  • Affinity for unconventional thinking and breakthrough strategies.
  • Avid reader/writer on a range of topics, including thought leadership. 

Nice-to-haves

  • An inclination to play, do, and teach.
  • A fascination with the uncommon.
  • An oddity that is all your own.
  • A degree useful to this role (Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Business, Psychology, Philosophy, Journalism, English Literature, etc.).

Curious for more?

CompanyWho we are and whom we serve.

 

Nimble. Unconventional. Dependable. Pixel Dreams is a creative agency with the inner fire to tackle the impossible. Big logos, small egos. Warm hugs, hot debates. Thick skins, light hearts. Diverse by nature, not policy. We're in the messy middle of building a centennial creative powerhouse for a vital purpose, serving our teams, our clients, and our communities. While we prefer not to kiss and tell, we recognize how important it can be for some candidates to see client logos before applying.

 
Some of the notable companies we work with.

Opportunities

Boundless 🪄
How big are your dreams?
How high are your aims?
How deep is your dedication?

 



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