Senior Creative Copywriter

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

At 140 West, you will be part of the energy that's evolving the Verizon brand as a leading technology player. The Tribeca space brings together some of the industry's sharpest minds across a multitude of subject areas, work with an integrated team that is responsive and innovative across every Verizon touchpoint.

This Senior Creative Copywriter will exhibit strong writing skills and an ability to collaborate with the creative and design team to ensure quality, verbal and visual consistency, and timeliness of material.

• Developing compelling creative concepts and high quality verbal content, within brand and on strategy, across a large variety of print and digital media, specifically geared towards our multiple Retail channels.

• Writing creative, effective marketing copy according to project specifications/creative briefs.

• Researching clients, their competitors and target audiences to support creative strategy and inform the execution.

• Providing writing support for aligned client groups, as well as supportting projects from other clients as demand and scheduling requires.

• Producing original, clear and credible copy and being accountable for the final development of creative assets.

• Ensuring messaging brand guidelines and directives are embraced and adhered to in all executions.

• Adhering to regulatory and compliance regulations.

• Executing writing requests with accuracy, producing zero errors in work (all client edits are implemented correctly, spell check was run, facts were confirmed).

• Working to improve the team's overall performance and embrace a collaborative approach.

• Supporting peers by reviewing work to ensure zero errors in work per above.

• Editing and proofreading material as demand and scheduling requires.

• Supporting leadership in helping to build a unified team mindset.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelors degree or two or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A degree in English, journalism, communications, or relevant field.

• External or in-house agency experience.

• Three or more years of professional-level writing experience.

• Experience working on a B2B account.

• Strong experience in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat.

• Experience with AP and/or Chicago Manual of Style.

• Knowledge of writing applications in traditional and emerging channels.

• Ability to maintain a consistent voice and audience focus in writing.

• Ability to boil down verbose content to the "essence" of the main message in a concise, effective manner.

• Ability to exhibit consistent quality control in your work.

• Knowledge of specific channels or vertical markets as required by job function.

• Ability to adapt style of copy to various audiences, purposes or media.

• Ability to exhibit competency in presenting creative work.

• Experience working within legal and compliance parameters.

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