Copywriter
Home Chef is building new ways to navigate the booming meal kit delivery industry. 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.
Home Chef is building new ways to navigate the booming meal kit delivery industry. 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.
Summary of Responsibilities:
Home Chef is seeking a highly enthusiastic, self-motivated Copywriter who loves food and the English language in equal measure - someone to bring ideas to life through compelling writing and storytelling. The Copywriter role is a key addition to our marketing team. You will be responsible for writing copy across all marketing channels. Specifically, this key team member will:
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
The qualifications and 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:
- 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, multi-tasking 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
- 3+ year of experience in copywriting for a brand or consumer-facing company
- Food industry experience a plus
- Ad agency experience a plus
Perks/Benefits:
-Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first
order!
-Direct access to senior management – our leadership team works alongside our team members every day
-Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
-Generous paid time off (PTO) policy
-401k program
-Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses
-Free water taxi, discounted gym membership, and daily bike storage for Wrigley building employees
-Cold brew coffee on tap at no charge
-Employee discounts for Home Chef meal kits
-Free lunch every Friday and snacks and beverages on hand every day
-Casual dress
Home Chef is an equal employment opportunity employer