Senior Copywriter

Who will you report to? Copy Director level and above

When? Monday to Friday, 9.30am until 5.30pm

Where? From November, we will be in Farringdon and will recommend a minimum of 2 days a week working in the studio.

Overview

We’re looking for an exceptional senior copywriter, with a passion for language – and a talent for giving any business a human voice.

You will be at the point in your career where you can take the lead as the writer on a project, confidently working with designers, strategists and account handlers. You’ll also be a sparring partner for your clients – a trusted voice, who can guide them on the right creative path forward.

You will be developing a strong understanding – and mastery of – all the ingredients you need to connect with different audiences, tap into different brand voices and deliver messages that are fresh and on-brief.

You’ll be at your best when you’re working as part of a collaborative team, whether it’s branding, campaign or digital work. As a strategic thinker, you’ll be comfortable questioning briefs and reframing challenges to help clients get high quality creative work that will move their brand forward.

You’re our type of Human if you’re:

• Considered: You understand briefs from the client's perspective and are consistent in considering them at all stages of the project.
• Exacting: You strive for excellence across every project that you work on, refining the details that count in all work leaving the office, ensuring that everything meets our standards.
• Calm: You understand that change is a given on most projects and can bring levity and warmth to difficult situations, to help boost morale and assure the team that solutions can be found.
• Insightful: You embrace throwing yourself into complex problems outside of your area of expertise. You’re not intimidated by having to do a lot of reading and thinking in order to be able to fully engage with a brief.
• Self-aware: You wear your experience and knowledge lightly. You know when to speak and when to listen. You would never consider yourself experienced enough to no longer be interested and fully engaged by the ideas of others.
• Collaborative: You are an approachable team leader and driver, building on the ideas of others to find the best possible solution. You publicly acknowledge the effort, hard work and support of others. You make time for everyone, stressing the collective - the ‘we’ and not the ‘I’.
• Responsible: You take full ownership over projects and client accounts that you lead on. Everyone knows they can rely on you, and you’re proud of that. If something needs doing, you'll stick around to do it with minimum fuss.
• Honest: You know how to be open and candid with others in a way that is always productive and solutions focused. You are sensitive enough to be able to disagree with others or give negative feedback (and receive it) without causing upset.

You are generally responsible for

• Talent development: You can train less experienced colleagues to learn new skills and ways of working.
• Planning & preparation: Working across multiple projects simultaneously, you can shape and coordinate activities on project work, including those involving other colleagues.
• Communication & presentation: You can present work formally to colleagues, and informally to clients. You can visit external student and professional bodies and deliver a lecture or workshop on an area of expertise.
• Feeding back: You can take part in feedback or critique sessions with clients.
• Problem solving: You are quick to spot problems, can use you experience to pre-empt problem areas, and can work with your teammates to find a solution.

Project responsibilities

Working independently (with input from Director level and above if required), you will:

• complete core tasks in our discover and define process, ideating and forming insights
• ideate and produce final creative routes
• complete core tasks in our creative rollout process

Within projects you may be assigned responsibility for:

• a project deliverable
• a project activity

The skills and experience we’re looking for

You’ll ideally have worked on projects that include these things:

• Tone of voice
• Naming of products and brands
• Writing long-form articles
• Writing social media content
• Writing short video/film scripts
• Coming up with creative concepts

You’ll need to be an well-versed in:

• Google Docs and Slides

Desirable, but by no means essential:

• Experienced in Adobe Indesign

Benefits

• When? Monday to Friday, 9.30am until 5.30pm are our core hours, but we want everyone to be able to balance their personal and working life so we offer flexible hours throughout the day.
• Hybrid setup: from November, we will be in our new studio located in Farringdon and we're operating a hybrid-model of working with recommending our humans to come in 2 days a week.
• Career development: we have a considered and robust framework for career development, as well as a training budget to further your skill set and knowledge
• Holidays: 28 days per day (in addition to public holidays)
• Company sick pay scheme
• Private healthcare: comprehensive, fully subsidised private health insurance from Vitality. This includes an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, a reward scheme that offers Amazon Prime, cinema tickets, and fitness tracking devices
• Wellbeing support: we offer a budget towards wellbeing and mental health services
• Family friendly: enhanced maternity and paternity packages
• Socials: studio lunches, social events, BBQs and other clubs (when the world permits).

Who we are

Human After All is a creative agency based in London. We create brand-led communications for some of the world’s most influential organisations, predominantly across the tech and purpose sectors. At HAA our values shape everything we do. We’re a certified B Corporation, and we pride ourselves on being great humans. To fit in you’ll need to be empathetic, a team player and an excellent communicator. You’ll also need to be conscientious: there’s a good reason for everything we do and for every decision we take, so you’ll need to be someone who demonstrates this same degree of care — both in your work and your interactions with others. Check out the values page on our website for more on what is important to us.

HAA’s ambition is that just as we hope our work will go beyond expectations, we also hope it will achieve bigger things. We want our creativity to be a force for good. We want the communications we create to be instruments for change in the world. We ask that you consider social and environmental causes both in your day-to-day activities at Human After All, and through our purpose-focused client work

Equality and Diversity

Human After All is an equal opportunity employer. Our policies reflect our belief in treating all employees and job applicants equally. We will avoid unlawful discrimination in all aspects of employment including recruitment and selection; promotion; transfer; opportunities for training; pay and benefits; other terms of employment; discipline; selection for redundancy and dismissal.

HAA is committed to building a team that has diverse skills, experiences and abilities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries. We are also committed to equality and diversity within our workforce, and across all opportunities provided by our agency. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian, Ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ+ candidates.

We also welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent individuals, and are willing to make accommodations in the interview process to best suit the needs and strengths of the individual. If you require accommodations, please complete the relevant section when prompted during the application process.

Please be aware, as we are a UK based business we're not in a position to employ candidates who're based overseas.