Editorial Director & Strategist (Creative / Marketing)

Position: Editorial Director & Strategist (Creative / Marketing)

Thinkso is seeking a seasoned editorial director with creative agency experience to work on a wide range of client projects. This is a hands-on position in which you’ll develop editorial and brand strategy as well as write copy, both independently and in collaboration with a broader project team.

The successful candidate is an idea-driven strategic thinker who understands business and has experience working on cross-channel media for a wide variety of sectors — including sophisticated B2B professional services (business consulting, finance, legal, and/or technology). As part of our small but accomplished agency, you’ll produce your own work as well as oversee, review, and guide the work of team writers and freelancers. This position is perfect for someone who wants some managerial responsibilities without giving up their craft.

To qualify, you must:

• Have 7+ years of direct, relevant experience.
• Be adept at turning complex business concepts into clear, engaging English — knowing when to use industry jargon, and, most importantly, when not to.
• Love a variety of project types and have experience writing across media — print and digital, long form and short.
• Be able to work independently as well as collaborate with the firm’s partners and the rest of the Thinkso team.
• Have a passion for the details (grammar, spelling, consistency, etc.).
• Want to break new ground in professional services marketing via what we call “appropriate creativity.”
• Be comfortable taking a project and running with it, but also enjoy collaborating with the team.
• Align with Thinkso’s core values.
• Thrive in a remote work environment.

Details on the Role & Responsibilities:

• Be a strategic thought partner to our clients and creative teams.
• Adeptly conduct discovery/information-gathering exercises, including one-on-one interviews, questionnaires/surveys, brainstorming sessions, etc.
• Oversee desk research on our clients’ businesses, customers, and competitors
• Analyze research findings and translate them into actionable creative and marketing strategy.
• Devise brand strategy components, including positionings, messaging strategies, brand attributes, elevator pitches, brand promises, and others.
• Write long- and short-form copy based on implementation needs. This can range from full-length articles, to headlines for a website or ad, to campaigns, taglines, or naming projects.
• Create and articulate unique brand voices.
• Communicate strategy and other creative rationale to clients in a clear, professional, and convivial manner.
• Oversee the work of team writers and freelancers, providing feedback and guiding copy development.

Overview of Benefits

• Health/dental/vision insurance, 401k plan
• Paid time off that increases with tenure and company holidays
• True work-life balance with an average work week under 40 hours
• Participation in our pro bono project, Give a Brand!, during work hours
• Salary: $125,000, non-negotiable*, plus opportunity for annual bonus

* We believe that when we give people the opportunity to negotiate salaries, we reward those people who are skilled at negotiation. Being a good negotiator does not mean you have more job experience or that you will do better on the job. For this reason, we strive to maintain a fixed salary level for all people at the same job level. Our intention is to avoid unconscious bias that leads to pay discrimination.

About Thinkso

Thinkso is a fully remote boutique creative agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 2006, we’re a group of progressive strategists, designers, writers, and project managers who love what we do: producing exceptional brand communications and experiences for clients in a range of industries. Our work is strategy- and editorial-driven, using world-class design to bring messages and content to life to help our clients achieve their business goals.

Thinkso specializes in sophisticated B2B professional services, with clients in the finance, technology, legal, and business consulting sectors. To keep ourselves and our portfolio fresh and invigorated, we also work in a wide range of other sectors, including education, nonprofit/mission-driven, athletics, medicine, real estate, consumer goods, and more.

Everything we do is guided by our four core values: delivering excellence, choosing integrity, being scrappy, and enjoying the ride. While we’re all super-efficient, smart, and hard-working, we’re also fun-loving, supportive, quirky, and kind.

As part of our core values, Thinkso continually strives to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees, as well as foster a work environment where colleagues’ different abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith, gender, and other identities are celebrated.

So if you’re someone who wants to do really great work — while avoiding the bureaucracy of the corporate world and the cut-throat culture of big agencies — consider joining the Thinkso team.

To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume and writing samples to: jobs@thinkso.com

Before applying, please look at our portfolio at thinkso.com/work to ensure we’d be a good fit.