Senior Copywriter
Description
Mercer Advisors is a different kind of wealth management firm. We exist so that our clients don’t have to worry about money. Our firm was founded in 1985, on the belief that families at all wealth levels would benefit from a fully unified approach to managing their money – “A family office for your family.”
We connect the dots of our clients’ financial lives by unifying planning, investing, taxes, estate, insurance, trust, and more. Today, we proudly serve over 25,000 families, across over 90 cities, with over $45 Billion in assets entrusted to our care. And we do this as an independent, national fiduciary – which means we are committed to always working in the clients’ best interest.
When you join our team, you will find that it is different from what you typically see in our industry. Our client-facing professionals of in-house experts are 50% women, as is our overall employee base. We bring together the best talent wherever they live –with no formal headquarters, and many flexible working arrangements – so we can assemble the best team.
Job Summary:
The Senior Copywriter is an important new role at Mercer Advisors that will create compelling content for internal and external audiences that drives meaningful results. You’ll join a growing content development team that will be instrumental in creating differentiated content that is leveraged by a variety of audiences. The Senior Copywriter must be adept at distilling complex ideas into digestible and actionable content and advise junior copywriters on best practices and standards.
The Senior Copywriter must have a 360-degree skill set, meaning they are comfortable writing anything from short form articles, web specific content, video scripts, social posts and pulling facts for an infographic. The successful candidate must be comfortable creating from a brief as well as interview subject matter experts to create content to editing/rewriting existing articles. This role reports to the VP, Content but will partner with internal SMEs and leaders of the organization.
Essential Job Functions for the Copywriter will include:
- Strong conceptual abilities, remarkable writing skills and a knowledge of the digital landscape
- Collaborate with designers and cross-functional teams to ensure content is aligned with brand guidelines, tone of voice, and the project objectives
- Edit and proofread content to ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency
- Manage multiple, concurrent projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Able to produce a range of content, including thought leadership, articles, promotional/sales materials, client communication, video scripts, social content, emails, event invites, infographics, success stories, client communication, and more
- Ability to take previously written content and rewrite in brand voice while keeping target audience in mind
- Participate in editorial meetings with VP, Content and executive staff to generate new ideas
- Interview SMEs, translating their knowledge into content
- Able to efficiently take a topic and produce versioned content based on audience personas
- Able to embrace AI and other tools in workflow process for efficiency
- Knowledge in social platform best practices and experience developing and publishing content for LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in English, Communications, or Journalism
- 5-7 years in a copywriting position, with at least 1-2 of those years producing financial content
- Experience working in a regulated industry with a compliance component
- Strong editing and proofreading skills
- Knowledge of production across various media
- Ability to create clear content from complex ideas
- Exceptional written, communication, presentation, project management, and organizational skills
- Ability to work from creative brief while at the same time embrace being inquisitive to produce new thought patterns and ideas
- Capable of working in a fast-paced environment
- Knowledge of SEO basics
- Microsoft Office proficient
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Desire to work on a growing team and moves quickly
- Knowledge of the AP Style guide
- A portfolio of published content
Travel:
Ability to travel as needed to conduct in-person meetings with the field and full-team meetings.
Work Location:
Remote with the ability to come into the office if located near a current Mercer Advisors office with space.
Working Conditions:
Professional office environment, daytime hours, working inside, standing, and sitting, will be assigned to a workstation.
Benefits:
Mercer Advisors offers a competitive and robust benefit package to our employees. Our benefit programs are focused on meeting all of our employees and their eligible dependents health and welfare needs. We offer the following:
- Company Paid Basic Life & AD&D Insurance
- Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Supplemental Life & AD&D; Short-Term Disability; Accident; Critical Illness; and Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Three medical plans offerings including two High Deductible Health Plans and a Traditional Co-Pay medical plan.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contributions on a per pay period basis if enrolled in either HDHP medical plan.
- Two comprehensive Dental Plans
- Vision Insurance Plan
- Dependent Care Savings Account for child and dependent care.
- 14 Company Paid Holidays with a full week off at Thanksgiving.
- Generous paid time off program for vacation and sick days
- Employee Assistance Plan
- Family Medical Leave
- Paid Parental Leave (6 weeks)
- Maternity benefits utilizing company paid STD, any supplemental STD, plus Parental Leave (6 weeks) to provide time for recovery, baby bonding, and enjoying your family time.
- Adoption Assistance Reimbursement Program
- Company Paid Concierge Services for you and your loved ones for the spectrum of caring needs for your aging parents, young children, life’s challenges and more.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with both Traditional and Roth plans with per pay period match
- Pet Insurance