Home Chef is building new ways to provide meal solutions that meet a wide variety of customer needs, and shipping locations both online and in store. Our team is a unique mix of creators, chefs, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers and we’re growing quickly. Our customer-first mentality, combined with a zest for supporting our peers, helped us bring home Built in Chicago’s Startup of the Year Moxie award in 2017. If you’re ready to be part of the action, we’re ready to connect with you. There are no limits to where we can go together.

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Participate in brainstorming sessions:

Develop innovative solutions to creative challenges

Develop ways to communicate unique messages

• Interpret creative briefs into content:

Develop clear, engaging, persuasive and on-brand copy for: marketing emails, retail/POP signage, Home Chef web pages, digital advertisements, blog pieces, social channels, company collateral, campaign videos and other endeavors as needed

• Work within a style guide:

Leverage our existing style guide and help evolve it to accommodate the growing needs of the company

• Partner with cross-functional team:

Work closely with the design, marketing, retail, and product teams to create content, develop workload efficiencies and collaborate on output

Qualifications:

• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

Writing Skills

• Ability to write persuasively in both a formal and social voice
• Ability to communicate in the Home Chef brand voice
• Comfortable with multiple formats and lengths
• Ability to write with engaging, emotive tone as well as a transactional/directive copy tone
• Proofreading and editing skills

Project Management Skills:

• Responsible attitude, confidence, autonomy, proactivity, attention to details and the ability to cast ahead for future projects
• Easily move between solo work as well as team collaboration
• Ability to complete tasks in a timely manner while balancing time, multitasking and interruptions

Creative:

• Highly creative and imaginative, and ability to produce innovative and original ideas
• Experience with 360 marketing campaigns as well as direct and transactional digital channels
• Openness to receiving feedback

Strategic:

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize strategic messages and multiple opinions into consumer-friendly copy

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college
• 1+ year of experience in copywriting for a brand or consumer-facing company
• Food industry experience a plus
• Ad agency experience a plus

Perks/Benefits:

- Direct access to senior management – our leadership team works alongside our team members every day

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance – benefits start the 1st day of the month following your start date 

- Company paid life insurance, short term disability and long term disability

- Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses

- 401k program

- Flexible paid time off (PTO) policy, plus sick days 

- Quarterly company-wide “Town Hall” meetings 

- Ongoing professional development opportunities by level and function

- Your choice of Windows or Mac laptop

- Onsite gym 

- Free water taxi for Wrigley Building employees (seasonal) 

- Catered lunch every Friday plus snacks and beverages on hand every day

- Employee discounts through Perkspot

- Discounts on Home Chef meal kits and at Kroger stores

- Casual dress in a fun, friendly and collaborative work environment

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Home Chef is an equal employment opportunity employer