Junior Copywriter

About the Job...

We're looking for a junior writer whose brain and heart are of equal value.


You've been called weird. People have never quite figured you out. You notice things others walk past. You make connections that don't make sense until suddenly they're the only thing that makes sense. You've spent most of your life feeling like you were tuned to a different frequency than everyone else.


You're early. You know it. You haven't had enough feedback to talk yourself out of your instincts yet. You will. Don't let it. The way you see the world right now is uniquely yours. Protect it.

You'll write across every partner we have, every format, every brief. You'll be in rooms where the ideas get made, not waiting outside them.

We're employee-owned. When you join, you have a real stake in what we become. Not an employee. An owner. For someone at your level, that's unprecedented. Ask your tax person. (Oh yeah, you're going to need a tax person now)

What the role requires:

• A body of work that makes us see and love your brain
• A point of view that's genuinely yours
• The hunger to prove it and the humility to earn it
• Four-day work week, in the office Monday through Thursday, in Portland, Maine

About VIA...

VIA means "The Way" in Latin. We've been finding the way for 33 years - for our clients, for ourselves, and most importantly for the humans on the receiving end of our work.


We started with $4,000 and a set of principles we wrote in a hotel bar in fifteen minutes. That was 1993. We still use the same principles. They are our lighthouse. They keep us off the rocks:

Be Curious.


Honor the Process.


Think Like the Audience.


Create Respect.


Be on Time.


Be on Budget.


Figure It Out.


Find the Magic.


Do Work That Makes You Proud.


Believe.

We believe in ideas with consequences. Ideas that don't just look good in a deck, or win a room for an afternoon. Ideas that change what people do next. Ideas that move markets. Ideas that alter destinies.

We're 100% employee-owned. Every person here has a real stake in what we become. That changes what you fight for. What you're willing to put your name on. What done actually means.

We're based in Portland, Maine. Four-day work week. Some of the best benefits of any company our size in America. A 200 year old library that we get to work in every day knowing it's ours. Great schools. An ocean. A food scene that has no business being this good.
*Your application will always be received and reviewed by real people, not a computer. No AI filters or algorithms here!*