OVERVIEW
The SageSure Brand & Creative team is looking for a Senior Copywriter with a passion for storytelling, clarity, and consistency to develop high-impact copy across our marketing channels and platforms. From brand campaigns and video scripts to direct mail and digital content, you’ll be responsible for writing B2B and B2B2C copy that illuminates SageSure’s differentiation, showcases our Brand voice, and meets business objectives.
The ideal candidate is a versatile writer and strategic thinker who is eager to take on creative challenges, stay updated on the competitive landscape, and maintain a performance-driven mindset. In this role, you will cross-collaborate with designers and various teams to elevate our messaging, ensure consistency and accuracy, and drive conversions. If you thrive on iterating and taking your craft to new heights, come learn and grow with us.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Create performance-driven copy for a wide range of deliverables, including advertisements, email campaigns, direct mail, websites, video scripts, social media, and more.
- Combine brand fidelity with positioning and business objectives to create marketing copy that educates and drives action.
- Collaborate with the Copy Lead, editors, designers, cross-functional project leads, and SMEs to execute omnichannel campaigns.
- Translate product differentiation and market strategy into impactful copy.
- Adapt style and voice to unique audiences, reflecting a deep understanding of each audience’s needs.
- Analyze copy performance and optimize based on results.
- Support the Copy Lead in planning for future marketing initiative copy needs.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- 5+ years of copywriting, content writing, or UX writing experience; digital experience is required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to synthesize research, ideas, and input from multiple stakeholders into compelling copy.
- Proven ability to adapt messaging and tone for specific channels, objectives, and audiences.
- Strong collaboration skills with experience working cross-functionally.
- Track record of taking initiative and proactively solving problems.
- Excellent editing and proofreading capabilities.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a highly responsive environment.
- Basic experience collaborating in Figma.
HIGHLY PREFERRED SKILLS
- Undergraduate degree in English, creative writing, marketing, journalism, communications, or a related field.
- Experience writing about insurance or reinsurance preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of email best practices.
- Experience with A/B testing.
- A solid knowledge of UX copywriting best practices.
Please provide relevant work samples via a PDF or a web link to your portfolio. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered. This hybrid role requires on-site work at a SageSure office three days per week.
About SageSure:
Named among the Best Places to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance for four years in a row (2020-2023), SageSure is one of the largest managing general underwriters (MGU) focused on catastrophe-exposed markets in the US. Since its founding in 2009, SageSure has experienced exceptional growth while generating underwriting profits for carrier partners through hurricanes, wildfires, and hail. Available in 16 states, SageSure offers more than 50 competitively priced home, flood, earthquake, and commercial products on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners. Today, SageSure manages more than $1.9 billion of inforce premium and helps protect 640,000 policyholders.
SageSure has more than 1000 employees working remotely or in-office across nine offices: Cheshire, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; Houston, Texas; Jersey City, New Jersey; Mountain View, California; Marlton, New Jersey; Tallahassee, Florida; and Seattle, Washington.
SageSure offers generous health benefits and perks, including tuition reimbursement, wellness allowance, paid volunteer time off, a matching 401K plan, and more.
SageSure is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a workforce that reflects the spectrum of perspectives, experiences, and abilities of the world we live in. We recognize that our differences make us strong, and we actively seek out diverse candidates through partnerships with organizations, institutions and communities that represent various backgrounds. We champion belonging and inclusion for all identities, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, ability status, gender, and country of origin, striving to create a culture where all individuals feel valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.
Our nimble, highly responsive culture nurtures critical thinkers who run toward problems and engineer solutions. We relentlessly pursue better outcomes by investing in the technology, talent, and tools that position us to succeed in demanding markets. Come join our team! Visit sagesure.com/careers to find a position for you.
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