Copywriter with Ambitions to Be a Fiction Writer - remote

I'm pretty sure that every copywriter in the world somehow knew that a job was posted that said "fiction writer" - as if a disturbance in the force. 

So what does that mean?

We are a design studio who has increasingly moved away from accepting outside client work. We focus now on several projects that are with clients we love and that we have a personal and emotional stake in. Also. We have started to dabble a little in our own projects and products. 

As we grown in new directions we find ourselves focusing more and more on the creative side of copywriting. Not to sell stuff... But to make stories... That also might sell stuff. Or be sold themselves. 

We're a small studio, ~25 people at the time this is posted. We're a 20+ year old company. We're in a dozen countries and fully remote. 

We're looking for someone with a clear modern voice that is capable of writing ad copy and prose. 

* What do you mean ad copy? 
Ad copy is what I would call a step above "content" it's totally not what GPT can do. It's voice. It's brand. It's attitude. Not like leather pants attitude. Well, I mean. Maybe. But you hear this? You hear me talking to you right now? This is voice. This is not "copy" this is not "content" this is me talking to you and you are still reading it... so it works. 

* What do you mean prose? 
OK. This is where it gets more fun, and the real reason you would come on board. We have an illustrator who has been working on this series of children's books about the types of mental health issues that affect young people specifically. It's like a real passion project because she went through some of this stuff. 

Could we hire a freelancer to do that? Yeah. Could we probably write it ourselves? (We have copywriters) yeah. But we're looking to grow in a specific direction with people with new talents and focuses. We want more bandwidth here. 

We have a guy who thinks he could write some action/history/mystery books. He's actually written most of 2 but they are by no means ready for publication. They need editing. They need a good co-writer ghost-writer helper person. That person is me. Not the ghost writer person the other person. The person who needs the... You get it. I need help. 

We have some ideas for travel books. Really niche art history books. We have an idea that the right person for this job might just have some of their own ideas. 

It is a little. We're in a really lucky place. We pay the bills and we grow already. So imagine. What do you do with the R&D budget? We're really interested in doing things we want to do with that budget. Stuff that we can be really proud of that sort of extends our own company brand into a reputation for creating "things" not just selling services. We are very serious about that even if it seems a little pie in the sky. 

You're a writer who thinks. Yes I write for a living but it's "content" and I want more. What if the stuff I always make time for on weekends and evenings could be my day job? What if the ideas I have are just waiting to be made even better by being surrounded by a worldwide group of creative people? You think... I'd love to take a crack at taking creative ideas and making them even more creative. And better yet. Helping guide them across the finish line. 

You probably are weirdly obsesses with editing and spelling. And have opinions on MLA. You physically cringe at commercials and billboards because they legitimately hurt you in their incompetence or artificiality. You love telling stories. All the damn time. 

This job post is from We Work Remotely. If you find it somewhere else, please find the original. 

And take note to put in the subject line of the application copywriterqwer434 which is a dumb way we keep track of positions. If you don't put that on there you might get lost!