This is not your grand pappy’s ad agency. AtticSalt is a branding studio devoted to crafting disruptive identities for organizations that are hell-bent on challenging the status quo. We’re Arizona-based, but work remotely with talent and organizations from all over the world. Branding is not our job. It’s our obsession. We’re bound by our love for creating clever, simple solutions to complex business challenges. Ready to join our army?
The Role
We’re looking for a seasoned Brand Strategist with a track record of success in brand architecture, positioning, and messaging. This role will have the responsibility of shaping the verbal identity of our client’s brands and also play a big part in brand naming, web content, and creative direction. The perfect strategist for our team understands the stark difference between strategy & planning and has the ability to execute both well.
Is this job right for you?
To be respectful of everyone’s time let’s start with the important stuff first. Please only apply if you can unequivocally answer YES to all these points
At least 4 years working for a branding agency in a strategic or writing capacity
Experience working with B2B, Tech, Health, or CPG brands and can point to results
Keen understanding of brand strategy or consumer behavior/psychology
5+ years of experience naming, positioning, and writing copy for series A funded startups or brands with annual revenue of over $1M
Have a documented, proven process and can walk through it in detail.
Understand the difference between strategy and planning and can do both well.
Experience in putting together a website content strategy that converts.
Studied marketing, advertising, psychology or just became an expert through the school of hard knocks– doesn’t really matter how you got here, so long as you can walk the talk
Key Responsibilities
Participate in and lead discovery workshops to extract insights from clients that will shape the future of their brand’s messaging and creative direction.
Lead naming exercises products and companies write brand storylines, verbal identities for AtticSalt clients
Translating research and strategy into original ideas and copy that impact our clients’ business in a meaningful way
Writing copy for brand guides, websites, brochures, sales decks etc
Manage tasks 3-5 projects, timelines, and clients at once using Asana, Slack, Google Drive, and Dropbox
Assign, direct, and oversee content strategy & creation of AtticSalt content and work with our junior copywriter and design team to develop and implement:
Monthly and quarterly content calendars
Downloadable guides or checklists that will be added to our blog and distributed through email and social platforms
Effectively communicate strategy and ideas to team and clients
Compensation & Benefits
Medical insurance
3 weeks PTO
$1000 continuing education credit
Flexible FT/PT schedule – 40-hour workweek
Work remotely
Salary dependent on work preference, location & experience.
Interested? Here’s how to apply
Write us a personalized cover letter. It doesn’t need to be long; just let us know why you’d be a great fit at AtticSalt and what you see your future looking like with us. Bonus points for mentioning tacos. It shows us you pay attention to details.
Send us your resume
We understand that candidates won’t check every single box. If you are interested, we highly encourage you to still apply!