Part-Time Copy Editor, Brand Voice

Job Description

About Crew Dog

We started Crew Dog because we wanted a more understated way to show pride in the places and people you belong to: your school, your team, your hometown.

Today we’re licensed with 150+ schools, sports and communities across the US. Our products are online and in 100+ retail locations, including LidsU, Follett, Rally House, Alumni Hall and independent bookstores. We care about good design, telling stories properly, and long-term partnerships with the schools and teams we work with.

The role

We write a lot: blog posts, emails, product descriptions, social, packaging, retail signage. Over the last few months we’ve worked out exactly how Crew Dog should sound, and we’ve written it down. Now we want someone whose job is to hold us to it.

To start, it’s a couple of hours a week focused on blog posts, email copy and product descriptions. As it grows, it’ll cover everything we put into the world.

What you’ll do

• Edit and proofread copy for the website, email, social, packaging and retail
• Sharpen headlines, product descriptions and campaign lines with our marketing and creative team
• Tell us when something sounds generic, overwritten, or like a machine wrote it
• Help build out our voice guidelines so the whole team writes like one brand

You might be a good fit if

• You’re the person friends send their cover letters to
• You have strong grammar and editing skills, and you notice when a sentence has one word too many
• You’ve written or edited brand, marketing or consumer copy
• You can make a product description interesting without exaggerating
• You can juggle a few projects at once and you’re comfortable in a small, fast-moving team
• You’ve worked with marketing, design or ecommerce teams (a plus)
• You know AP or Chicago style (a plus)
• You care about college sport, campus culture or community brands. Rowing is a plus, not a requirement.

A degree in English, Communications, Journalism or Marketing is great. So is equivalent experience.

What you’ll get

• A voice framework to work from, and a team that takes edits well
• Direct work with the founders
• Pay: $25 per hour

To apply , send us a short note and two or three things you’ve written or edited. Bonus points if you edit this post! :)