Who are you?

You’re a wizard with words, crafting written content that conveys clear ideas. You’re an amazing communicator, written and verbal alike, and you have no trouble adapting your tone and style to reach a variety of audiences throughout multiple industries.

The Role

As a content strategist, you are the person who uses their skills to not only write and edit captivating and educational content for our clients, but also organize incoming and outgoing assets from various resources, while ensuring clients are satisfied with the final result.

Reporting to the Content Team Lead, you will regularly research topics before developing in-depth, search-engine-optimized content, coordinate the publication of content, and collaborate with team members to ensure content assets support the overall strategic direction of each campaign and marketing initiative.

Your work with Creative TRND may involve blog posts, primary webpage content, ad copy, emails, social posts and more.

Remote: Hybrid schedule

Position Responsibilities

• Write marketing materials for dozens of clients. You'll write blog articles that vary in length, as well as website content, landing pages, email marketing copy, branding guides, news articles, booklets, and much more. We want you exposed to all types of content marketing!

• Create content strategies for our clients with support from the SEO team. You'll combine your creativity and research skills to come up with unique and relevant ideas for content that will attract visitors to our clients' web pages.

• Write brief news articles that will help continue to build Creative TRND's reputation as the authority on the changing landscape of SEO, Social, Paid Media, digital marketing, and more.

• Communicate with clients directly and our Project Management team. You'll share your amazing content with our clients and help translate their vision and goals into content assets that support SEO-friendly marketing strategies that drive traffic and revenue.

• Polish your team's written content. You'll give and receive feedback that will turn your team's content into top-quality stuff while ensuring our brand's guidelines are respected at every level.

• Communicate with impeccable accuracy and effectiveness, working diligently to support team members and colleagues.

• Seamlessly adapt your written voice and tone to suit a variety of clients, niches, topics, and subjects. It's never-ending!

• Contribute ideas and opinions that help Creative TRND move the needle on a client’s business.

• Work efficiently to meet deadlines, managing internal timelines without compromising creative vision. You'll work with the Content Team and other departments to ensure all project objectives are met and exceeded.

• Help develop internal documentation and process operations procedures to maintain consistent quality on all digital marketing projects.

• Publish content to the web! After content has been written and approved by a client, you will publish the content using proper SEO-friendly formatting through WordPress, Shopify and Wix or other platforms as needed.

Requirements

• Experience with professional content writing (minimum 2 years)

• Post-secondary degree or diploma in communications, marketing, advertising, journalism,

• Alternatively, equivalent experience and education.

• Alternatively, a written portfolio to show quality and consistency

• Experience working in a fast-paced creative or agency environment is an asset

• Professional native fluency in English, both written and spoken;

• Professional bilingualism in English and French will be considered a major asset.

• Experience writing long & short-form news and feature articles

• Ability to develop unique, creative ideas that will grab attention and get results

• Exceptional writing skills and a demonstrated ability to craft compelling content.

• Strong proficiency in substantive editing and adapting content across various channels.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Proven ability to adapt and adjust content to maintain consistency with branding, theme, style, and tone.

• Solid understanding of formatting & optimizing content for SEO

• Ability to organize and manage multiple flows of documents between departments, clients and resources

• Able to manage multiple priorities and assignments under tight deadlines.

• Strong self-manager, with an impeccable eye for detail and accuracy.

• Career-minded, with a strong work ethic and a positive attitude.

• Can-do attitude with a willingness to solve problems creatively.

• Proficiency in MS Office, Google Docs/Sheets and WordPress.

• Basic knowledge of SEO practices as it relates to content marketing is considered an asset.

• Basic knowledge of Social Media practices is considered an asset.

• Basic knowledge of HTML is considered an asset.

Benefits

Group Insurance

• Life Insurance

• Short-Term Disability

• Long-Term Disability

• Extended Health Care

• Extended Dental Care

• Other Optional Coverages & Plans

Additional Compensation

• Performance Awards

• Monetary or Equity Awards

• Stock Options Plan

• Employee Shares Purchase Plan

• & More​

Other Benefits

• Dynamic Work Environment

• Ability to Work Remotely

• Work Life Balance

• Career Growth

• & More