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Senior Copywriter, Brand Identity and Growth

United States

Senior Copywriter, Brand Identity and Growth

Help people save a little bit each paycheck—so they don’t have to live paycheck to paycheck. And do this by bringing our brand and story to life. 

Guideline is looking for a Senior Copywriter to join our Research and Development team to help us create fresh and interesting content for all the audiences we serve: prospective buyers, current customers, and savers. You’ll be connecting and writing for a variety of groups, from self-employed individuals to small business owners to HR representatives at large companies. 

You’ll primarily work with our Marketing organization, owning a variety of touchpoints—from email campaigns to landing pages. But you’ll also collaborate with all types of functions, like visual design and content design, to ensure your work is seamless within our end-to-end customer experience. This role will be at the center of a lot of our branding conversations, and you’ll get to help drive what our voice and tone looks like today and in the future. 

Responsibilities 

  • Content strategy: You’ll have the opportunity to think strategically about Guideline’s brand, developing content concepts and exploring our narrative. As a key player in Marketing, you’ll be a driver of our short-term and long-term messaging. 
  • Refresh our voice and tone: You’ll help shape and hone our voice and tone, ensuring that every single piece of content that goes out is in line with our high-quality standards.
  • Copywriting and production: You’ll own the copy on all assets and collateral—including but not limited to paid digital, socials, national paid campaigns, marketing emails, and website copy. 
  • Become a domain expert: You’ll bridge our creative work with legal needs. As you strengthen your expertise, you’ll help us push our creativity while ensuring what we ship is compliant. You’ll own the process of working through legal reviews, aligning feedback, and moving projects along to be shipped.
  • Build a library of approved materials: Since we’re in such a highly regulated space, each piece of collateral goes through Legal and Compliance. To help our marketing teams execute more efficiently, you’ll evolve and own our playbook of pre-approved language that we can plug and play.
  • Growth initiatives: You’ll support our Growth performance goals, act as a thought partner for marketing team members, and be an advocate for the buyer and customer.    
  • Collaborative partnerships: While this role works the closest to Marketing, it also lives in our Research and Development organization. This means you’ll be at the center of many strategic conversations with Marketing, Product, and Legal. Your role is to help ensure cohesion and consistency across the end-to-end customer experience.

 

Requirements 

  • 5+ years of experience as a marketing copywriter for B2B or B2B2C brands
  • Expertise in voice and tone as well as driving brand identity
  • Strong skills in writing, editing, and communication to articulate complex ideas in meaningful and empathetic ways 
  • Demonstrate the ability to work with a variety of partners and stakeholders, including Marketing, Product, and Legal teams 
  • A portfolio with a few case studies, showing your ability to be creative, produce thoughtful storytelling and messages, and influence team members 
  • Thriving in a fast-paced, startup environment 

Bonus experience includes

  • Familiarity using design tools, like Figma 
  • Experience with highly regulated industries, like FinTech and retirement
  • Experience in other writing fields, like technical writing or content design 
  • A personal finance nerd or wonk — who gets excited about simplifying and illuminating the importance of financial concepts

Why Guideline

Our values serve as a compass that guides our decisions and are considered non-negotiable, especially when it comes to hiring. Together with our employees, partners, and customers, we live these values every day.  

Everyone has hopes and dreams for the future, but it seems like only some of us are able to financially invest in them. That’s something we’ve made it our mission to solve - to help everyone arrive at a safe, secure retirement. Whatever type of work you choose, whatever the size of your business.  

We’ve done this by building the easiest, most affordable, most comprehensive platform for investing in your financial future.  It replaces doubt and fear with transparency, knowledge and understanding. It makes it possible, even enjoyable, to participate in a retirement plan as an employer, employee or partner.  

Because when you know how to safely, smartly invest today, you’ll be able to do more of what you love when the future arrives. And that is something everyone should be able to look forward to.

Compensation

At Guideline, we believe compensation should be fair and equitable. We take a data-driven approach to set our compensation bands; the successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, and work location. We are always evaluating our pay zones to be as competitive as possible, so keep in mind these may be subject to changeThese pay zones may be modified in the future.

Please speak with a recruiter for additional information regarding our tier locations and compensation philosophy.

Metro+:

    • The base salary range for this position is $170,500-$188,000 annually.

Metro:

    • The base salary range for this position is $154,000-$171,500 annually.

National:  

    • The base salary range for this position is $147,500-$165,000 annually.

 

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for equity in the form of Incentive Stock Options (ISOs). 

At Guideline, base salary is just one component of the overall Total Rewards package offered to employees.  All employees are offered comprehensive benefits and perks to help support you and your family.

  • Flexible time off in addition to company holidays — We observe the NYSE Holiday Calendar
  • 401(k) with matching contributions — We use our own platform and match 100% of the first 3% contributed, and 50% of the next 2% (for a max employer contribution of 4%)
  • 100% employer-paid healthcare, vision, and dental insurance for employees and 70% coverage for dependents
    • Opt-out credit if all three plans are waived
  • Eligibility to participate in Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Disability and life insurance options
  • Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching through Modern Health, for employees and their dependents
  • Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
  • 1 - month Sabbatical after 5 years of employment
  • Annual learning and development stipend — We reimburse approved professional development expenses, up to $750 per employee per year.

Guideline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  Additionally, Guideline participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. 

Guideline is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process can reach out to peopleops@guideline.com.

Guideline is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information of our applicants. Please refer to Guideline's Privacy Policy for information about our privacy and security practices.

 

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Expected Salary Range

$147,500 - $188,000 USD

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