Senior Copywriter

Rival is looking for a Senior Copywriter to join our Creative team, based in Danvers on the North Shore.As a Senior Copywriter, you will play an exciting part in developing and delivering business changing creative services for our clients. You will be Rival’s first Senior Copywriter so we are looking for someone excited to take ownership of this important role within our creative team.

Role

• As Senior Copywriter you will lead the creative execution of copy across our diverse portfolio of clients, looking to define and shape verbal identities that complement and enhance our creative direction, taking strategic and creative concepts and transforming them into consumer-facing copy, and managing deadlines and deliverables at the same time.
• Working alongside our integrated Paid Media, Creative and Strategy teams across London, Boston and Cape Town SA, which includes an existing ACD in Boston.
• Ensure consistency and alignment between our integrated team projects, delivering clear and well-rounded brand identities and executions, adapting content for different markets and formats and executing the flow of a message across multiple touch points.
• This person will be a real advocate for the role copy plays in each project - thinking outside the box and always asking the right questions.
•  This role is ideal for someone who combines creativity with strategic thinking to get the most out of clients and brands alike.

Opportunity

• You will be joining the Rival at an exciting time - we are three years in, growing quickly, and have big plans for the future!
• We have a global client portfolio - you’ll get a truly global perspective and be exposed to brands and projects in North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. 
• We are a small (but mighty!) team of about 25, so you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work on a wide variety of projects - strategy, paid media, creative, data/martech, and our own product development  
• This role holds a ton of potential for the right person, as you’ll be working closely with the founding team shaping the future of our business

Requirements 

We'd like to hear from you if…

• You are a senior-level Copywriter with 5-10 years of experience
• You’ve had to stretch a production once or twice in your careers
• You understand the brand inside and out, the sort of person and comfortable working across a range of sectors, spaces and industries is exactly what we're after!
• You're someone who can manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment, ensuring the highest quality is always maintained by utilising your meticulous eye for detail and your excellent editing and proofreading skills. 
• You have experience in an early stage start-up and/or a marketing agency/consultancy
• A start up mentality and personality: you're mission driven and not afraid to get stuck in
• Willingness to travel for client engagements as needed and for company retreats once a year 
• No university degree required - we value your experience and skills

To Apply

• We’d like to see a portfolio link that reflects ambition, optimism, and sound, conceptual thinking
• Please contact talent@wearerival.com with your portfolio link and resume/LinkedIn profile.  

Compensation

• Our compensation philosophy is to “mid-market base, top-market upside”. As a start-up we can’t compete with big agency/consultancy salaries, but we offer everyone the opportunity to share in the upside of what we’re building together. 
• There are three components to our compensation package 
  
  • Base Salary - market average for marketing consultancy/agency
  • Profit Share - eligibility for a profit share distribution twice a year (after one year of employment) based on company and individual performance
  • Employee Liquidity Plan -  eligibility for our “shadow stock” plan (after one year of employment)

Benefits

• Health Insurance, 401K
• 29-days vacation days for US employees + public holidays
  
  • 22 discretionary vacation days
  • 7 company ‘recharge days’ during the year - these are mandatory days that everyone takes off to relax and focus on family, friends and ourselves.
• Profit Share and Rival Employee Liquidity Plan (ELP)
  
  • ELP aka “shadow stock” has all the financial benefits of options, but without the cost to exercise and tax implications
• Office-first but flexible working environment 
  
  • Our default policy is for everyone to be in the office three days per week (currently Mon/Tues/Wed). We believe in and have seen the impact of in-person collaboration on our work, culture, and development. However, we hire grown ups and trust people to manage their time and schedule. We understand there will be exceptions to the default rule, as long as we’re all focused on what’s best for the team. 
• The equipment and technology you need to be successful, plus additional support if you need to enhance your work from home set-up
• Quarterly ‘Team Weeks’
  
  • One week a quarter we focus on planning, team building, and professional development. This can involve the opportunity to travel to other offices.  
• Various surprise and delights & Rival events throughout the year.

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About Rival

Rival is a marketing consultancy for challengers. We believe incumbent best practices lead to average results. We use the playbook of challenger brands to deliver outsized impact for CMOs who need to do more with less.

About a year ago, Rival (which focused on Strategy and Media) merged with HeyLet’sGo (creative boutique) and our website is currently being updated to reflect our portfolio. Here are a couple links to whet your appetite:

• https://adage.com/creativity/work/tumblr-distances-itself-politics-and-masculine-energy-other-social-networks-new-ads/2600731
• https://www.adsoftheworld.com/agencies/we-are-rival
• https://www.wearerival.com/creative
• https://heyletsgo.co

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Our Hiring Ethos

We want to build a home for the world’s best marketing talent while advancing diversity in our industry. Hiring is the most important thing we do at Rival. Finding and attracting the best talent in the industry is key to our long-term success and day-to-day happiness, but it’s also the most direct way we can have an impact on driving positive change in our industry and for our clients. 

Our goal is to deliver a best-in-class interview experience for candidates:

• Upfront alignment on what good looks like 
• We compensate candidates time for any interview that requires a task
• Timely, respectful communication 
• Opportunity for all candidates to provide feedback 
• All employees undergo unconscious bias training
• Global Equality Collective membership to upskill ourselves in all aspects of hiring

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Rival, we're invested in a thoughtful, long-term hiring approach that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. We care about creating a global community with a combined mission, but not at the expense of losing individual identity, which is critical to our innovation. It’s essential that we bring our authentic self to work every day, no matter our age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, or otherwise.

We listen to our employees, take direction and are taking continual action to better ourselves in this mission. Inclusion isn't just an initiative at Rival. We strive to embed it into all aspects of our business model and how we operate.

B Corp

Rival is proud to have gained B Corp Certification in 2023, we joined a fleet of B Corp businesses around the world who all have the same goal, driving global social and environmental change. We aim to set a new standard for corporate social responsibility in our industry. We believe we have a responsibility to not just do well for ourselves and our clients, but do good for others and the world at large. We don’t believe we can change the world on our own. But we do believe we can make a meaningful difference in this industry and set a meaningful example for others to follow.

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