Copywriter

Placement Type:


Temporary

Salary:


$45-55 Hourly


$45 - $55/hr

Start Date:


Aug 10, 2026

Aquent is partnering with a leading branding, advertising, and digital agency, renowned for its ability to craft impactful campaigns and innovative digital experiences. This dynamic agency excels at transforming strategic insights into compelling creative solutions that deeply resonate with audiences and deliver measurable results for a diverse portfolio of clients. Joining this team means your creative contributions will directly shape brand narratives and digital presence, making a tangible difference in the success of various businesses.


Are you a wordsmith with a strategic mind, eager to leave your mark on diverse brand narratives and digital experiences? This is your chance to join a premier agency where your creativity will directly influence client success. As a pivotal member of our partner's team, you'll translate strategic visions into captivating content across a multitude of platforms, bringing research findings and media plans to life through powerful words and innovative ideas. Collaborate closely with designers and art directors to ensure every creative output is cohesive, impactful, and truly unforgettable.


What You Will Do

• Develop concepts and write compelling copy for social media campaigns, driving engagement and brand recognition.
• Create concepts and write clear, persuasive copy for websites, applying a strong understanding of SEO principles to maximize online visibility.
• Collaborate seamlessly with agency designers and art directors, contributing both visually and verbally to concept development for maximum impact.
• Produce concepts and copy for print collateral, including brochures and one-sheets.
• Craft concepts and write scripts and outlines for video content.
• Potentially conduct interviews for video production, leveraging experience in video production and working with editors.
• Deliver creative concepts and copy that effectively translate research findings and media strategies into tangible, impactful content.
• Transform strategic creative briefs into purposeful, impactful, and immediately useful creative content, including headlines, body copy, social posts, and narrative web copy.
• Regularly write copy for digital banners and web pages, ensuring messaging is specific, on-brand, and aligned with the established tone and voice.

What You'll Bring

• Mid-Level experience with 5-8+ years in a professional writing role.
• A strong strategic mindset, capable of writing clear, compelling copy that drives action.
• Demonstrated ability to write authentically and effectively as a human, using AI solely for research to inform thinking, not for content generation.
• Exceptional curiosity and a proactive approach to deeply understand client businesses and their objectives.
• A commitment to bringing forward the best ideas, pushing creative boundaries responsibly, and focusing on the job's overall goal rather than just the assignment.
• Profound understanding of social campaigns and the ability to generate ideas and copy that thrive in social environments.
• A positive, supportive, and collaborative demeanor, fostering strong working relationships with team members and partners.
• Openness and transparency in communication, including proactively raising concerns about timelines or confusion.
• Fluency in Google Docs for writing and project tracking software.
• Ability to seamlessly integrate AI for research purposes to enhance insights and inform creative direction.
• Availability for an average of 10 hours of work per week.
• Flexibility and availability for meetings/calls during business hours for at least 2 days per week.
• Ability to schedule turnarounds within 24 hours or over 3-4 day blocks of time with 1-2 days' notice.
• Commitment to informing the agency weeks in advance about vacation and personal time for effective workflow scheduling.

Stand-Out Qualifications

• Proficiency in deck preparation tools such as presentation software or design layout software.

About Skill


Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts.


Skill is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.


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Other Requirements


What availability do we need?


a. Ideally, writer would be a full-time freelancer, not doing freelance on the side with a full time job.


b. The more reliability and dependability we can have, the better. This doesn't exclude freelancers who work around a full-time gig, but it is preferable for agency.


c. We need writers who have flexibility/availability for meetings/calls during business hours for at least 2 days per week.


d. Given 1 or 2 days notice from agency, writer should have ability to schedule turnarounds in 24 hours, or over 3-4 day blocks of time.


e. We would need at least 10 hrs. per week availability within their current freelance client base to make them a viable candidate.


f. Writer must keep agency informed weeks in advance about vacation and personal time so we can schedule workflow appropriately.


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