Copywriter

What you bring

Copywriting flair and experience – you can persuade, inform, engage, and entertain an audience. You have excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work independently and manage your time effectively.  Being comfortable with feedback and open to making revisions is key, initially, in order to produce the best possible copy, as you learn the brands.

What you’ll do

Write compelling copy: Write copy that meets the needs of the organization. This may include writing service and product descriptions, website content, marketing materials, social media posts, and other types of written content.

Research: Research on target audience, industry trends, and product features to create effective copy. Keep up with industry trends: including new marketing techniques, changes in consumer behavior, and emerging technologies, to create effective copy.

Develop brand voice and messaging: Create and ensure consistency in the brand voice and messaging across all communication channels.

Collaborate: Work closely with designers, marketers, and other team members to ensure that copy is visually appealing and aligned with the organization’s overall messaging.

Edit and proofread: You may be responsible for editing and proofreading your work, as well as the work of others, to ensure that it is error-free and meets the organization’s standards.

Adhere to style guidelines: Ensure that you write consistent and professional copy that adhere to style guidelines, such as AP Style or Chicago Style.

Meet deadlines: Manage your time effectively and meet deadlines, often working on multiple projects simultaneously.

What you’ve got

• 5+ years copywriting, editing and strategic communications experience, preferably in an agency, marketing or communications environment.
• Post-secondary education in journalism, communications, media or marketing.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively review copy, making substantive copy and content edits, and working closely with writers to ensure submissions meet high editorial standards. Impeccable attention to detail is essential.
• Ability to take constructive criticism well and implement internal and client feedback.
• Ability to work in a very fast-paced environment and adept at balancing a high volume of tasks, priorities and deadlines.
• Strong familiarity with Microsoft solutions (O365, Teams, OneNote, SharePoint, Dynamics) is preferred

What we offer 

If you love what you do, you should love where you do it. Why you’ll love working at Mayk…

Diversity & Community 

With our diversity of skills, perspectives and backgrounds, we can ideate, create, and innovate like no other. Diversity is part of who we are, and essential to our success.

Ownership & Impact 

Here, every voice matters. We’re organized into small teams, each focused on client’s growth.

Trust & Collaboration 

Successes and failures are won together at Mayk in our teams. Win, lose, and learn, we’re on this path together.

Remote Flexibility 

If you love what you do, you should love where you do it. We appreciate that everyone’s different and has their own preferences of where and how to work. We genuinely believe in the power of regular face-to-face interactions in building close connections with our teams, but we also strongly believe people can work effectively remotely. This means that combining both is the key to success. Maykers can work from the office, remotely within your country of employment, or even outside of it for up to 20 working days per year. Flex it up!

Professional Growth 

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for professional growth and advancement.

Join us and help create a bright future for brands and businesses

• We are engaged, resourceful and we always find a way to support growth initiatives of companies through important milestones. Every member of the team has mental agility with the ability to juggle multiple projects/initiatives simultaneously.
• We use communication and tech to level the playing field. Technology and data connect people and brands from all over, building businesses with entrepreneurial partners.
• We build campaigns and connections our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to help them not only grow their pieces of the pie – but enlarge the pie. And to do that these businesses need ideas, talent, brand and infrastructure.
• We are curious and creative: We always find a way to get things done and come up with creative solutions to whatever problems are standing in our way. We lead with creativity in our decision making and reason.

We value candidates that bring a range of experience from different industries and a variety of creative influences. If you’re special and can bring first-hand experience and empathy for the growth journey, tell us your story! Even if you (or your team) don’t fit all the desired requirements.

Let’s Get this Started!

Please submit a cover letter, copy of your resume and/or a short video pitch. The link to your video (approx. 1-5 min) and your portfolio should be included in your resume or cover letter. [Video pitches get first priority 😊]

Why are you the right person for the role?  In cover letter and/or video this is what we are expecting:

• Two or three sentence summary about your academic and/or professional background.
• Specific accomplishments from your background that explains how you fit with our candidate description above.
• Tell us about a special project you worked on and what your biggest accomplishment was.
• Do you wish to be considered for full-time permanent and/or contract employment?

Please remember to submit your resume, link to your portfolio, cover letter/video pitch and include answers to the questions above. There is no word limit for your letter, but we’d prefer that you limit your answers to one page. Use the following format as the subject line for your submission “[Your Name] – [Role Title] Application”.

We look forward to meeting you!

AODA statement  

We thank you for your interest in pursuing a role with Mayk, however, only those to be interviewed will be contacted.  Mayk is committed to promoting accessible recruitment as outlined in the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Mayk is an equal opportunity employer and will attempt to accommodate persons with a disability during the recruitment process and accommodation will be provided upon request.