We’re hiring: middleweight writer

We’re on the hunt for a thoughtful, articulate copywriter to join us at the Wharf. 

Background-wise, we’re looking for someone who has been writing and editing for three to five years: this is a job for a professional writer, not an aspiring wordsmith. Digital copywriting experience is critical.

In terms of personality, we're looking for someone who is brave, challenging and pragmatic. You've got to be easy to work with, but also fiendishly dedicated to making smart, exciting things out of the Internet.

Working at Made by Many isn’t about making ads, but designing services and experiences that make people’s lives better. Your job will be to give a voice to the ideas behind our work and tell a compelling story through the products and services we build and the communication around them.

You know the old-school approach where the copywriter/art director pair sat in the turret and churned out ephemeral ideas for others to action? Not how we roll. Our creative team includes technology and strategy, and we all muck in wherever and whenever we’re needed.

You’ll need to seamlessly shift from project to project, working across a variety of teams and clients and absorbing information as you go. This role demands a broad base of skills, as you’ll be involved in idea generation, service design and propagation as well as content creation:

Strong, confident writing skills are a must. You’ll be shaping long copy, blogging, pinning down airtight instructional copy, and handling propagation across Twitter, Facebook and the broader social web… and you’ll be doing it in different voices and to a range of audiences. A big part of this role is writing hardwired copy for sites and services. This is its own kind of writing, and we need to see evidence that you can do it well. 

Sub-editing is an important part of this job. We need someone who can not only write clean, consistent copy, but also edit the most unwieldy content into crisp, organised prose. If ATD isn’t your strong suit, this job isn’t for you.

Listen first, and listen well. You’ve got to be able to understand what the service is about in order to tell the story.

Think about the whole picture. Copy and content are part of a service, and that service sits in an ecosystem of users, stakeholders and a million other variables. We need you to understand that and help make the whole picture better, not just the bit you write.

If this sounds like you, send a short note and a link to your portfolio to jobs [at] madebymany [dot] co [dot] uk.