Freelance - Director, Writing

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
Internship
Design
The Role

VSA’s purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and design agency, we blend consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences in an increasingly noisy world. With offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, VSA offers a full range of fully integrated capabilities—branding, advertising, data science and technology—all under one roof. VSA is also a proud member of Meet The People, an international family of unified and independent agencies. For more than 40 years, we have delivered solutions for business and creative leaders at some of the world’s most respected brands and forward-thinking organizations, including Google, Nike and IBM. 

VSA's Content Practice provides brand and marketing audiences with meaningful content and communications that address clients’ business problems. Across multiple forms, media and channels, we unite the art and engineering of content—strategizing, concepting, structuring, crafting, adapting, publishing and measuring. The Freelance Associate Director of Writing handles programmatic content work for multiple clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Strategic writing and brand translation with longer-form capability and interest.
  • Take a leadership role in developing unique concepts and content to meet clients’ needs.
  • Think visually as well as verbally, contributing from the beginning to the structure, look and feel of a client project.
  • Translate client needs and interact closely with designers to create and refine content for a chosen design direction, identifying alternative message strategies for achieving clients’ objectives.
  • Think beyond individual projects and interact directly with clients and develop programmatic solutions to content needs.
  • Lead multiple content work-streams and writing projects within a client program, in partnership with Client Engagement and Project Management.
  • Perform effectively at concepting, group brainstorming, writing of placeholder copy, and working both independently and collaboratively.
  • Collaborate in the development and definition of the “voice” for a client, a program or individual project.
  • Establish and/or interpret brand positioning, tone, and attributes.
  • Demonstrate use of logic in structuring content, and offer the creative team critical thinking and knowledge of business and marketing principles.
  • Interact optimally with clients and their client staff members to acquire background information.
  • Supply and edit creative or strategic briefs presented to clients.
  • Contribute to solutions for critical or difficult client issues in conjunction with Engagement Lead and Project Manager.
  • Participate in creative presentations to clients, and lead content strategy and development conversations.
  • Use design knowledge to improve design direction and project management of internal resources.
  • Observe and manage to deadlines.
  • Identify and evaluate potential freelance writing resources and advise them on behalf of clients and the creative team.
  • Additional responsibilities as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • 8+ years of experience in communications, business, marketing, advertising or a related field.
  • An undergraduate degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Advertising or Integrated/Strategic Communications. Master’s degree preferred.
  • Experience in a client-facing role.
  • Experience in handling, leading, and developing a team.
  • Ability to demonstrate a strong vocabulary, expertise in English usage, and comfort with multiple and often sophisticated writing assignments, styles and subject areas.
  • Ability to focus on user priorities and needs in structuring content, and to offer the team critical thinking and knowledge of business, brand and marketing principles.
  • Ability to articulate and effective in communicating and explaining writing choices.
  • Ability to achieve rapid realization of results and outcomes, with strength in observing and managing to deadlines.
  • Ability to interact at all levels of the company and with external parties in a professional manner maintaining effective communication, both written and spoken.
  • Skills in sophisticated problem solving, judgment, critical thinking and decision-making.
  • Ability to be versatile and balance multiple projects and re-prioritizations.
  • Ability to organize information, prioritize, have attention to detail, and accurately follow procedures.
  • Ability to maintain self-motivation and to work independently in team environments.
  • Some evenings and weekend work may occasionally be necessary.




VSA Partners is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive, equitable environment for all employees. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit and business need.

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VSA PARTNERS, LLC
vsapartners.com

  

The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
188 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1982

What We Do

VSA is a hybrid brand strategy and design agency. We partner with business, strategic and creative leaders, combining our strategic consulting with design-driven experiences to solve business problems and realize the future of a brand. As a hybrid agency, we blend consumer insights and data with the craft of design to activate the most meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences.

For VSA employees as well as those we recruit, we’ve adopted a long-term hybrid model that allows people to define their way of working in the way they want. This means that VSAers can work from anywhere in the United States—home, office or any place in between. Working from anywhere gives VSAers the option to find time to work alone, join others for office-based collaboration, or meet up as needed for small-group moments and client meetings. We’re also hiring with geographic “neutrality”—pursuing the best talent wherever it may live. We think having a workplace option matters most these days: Employees benefit from human interaction and the need for a change in scenery from time to time. And also, VSA benefits from a diversity of experiences and perspectives that come from seeing and participating in the larger world. All of which is why we see our offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco as a flexible, accessible network of workspace hubs for employees to use as needed for work and interaction with colleagues.

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