- Senior
- Office in St. Louis
Opportunity Overview
The Edward Jones Agency is seeking a Senior Copywriter (or rising talent) who blends advanced experience in creative thinking, brand strategy and multi-disciplinary writing skills. You thrive in collaborative environments and specifically in partnership with Art Directors for show-stopping executions, and your career focus has centered around big ideas that inspire action and elevate brands.
Your ideas come to life across channels, whether through national campaigns or precision-crafted one-offs, and your strong headlines and conceptual drive are clearly focused. You can deliver quickly or refine deliberately. You lead, present and advocate for your work, balancing responsibilities working solo or with a team. Your portfolio showcases smart, diverse campaigns and shows range of experience beyond a single industry. You have a sharp eye for detail, a deep respect for strategy and a nuanced command of tone and voice that flexes to reach diverse audiences. You also bring brand + business intuition that influences and allows you to collaborate in ways that make fellow creatives and business-minded stakeholders go “wow!”
Most importantly, you’re looking to join a company whose mission bridges success with empathy, build around individuals, teams, our clients and our firm.
What you'll do...
Your ideas come to life across channels, whether through national campaigns or precision-crafted one-offs, and your strong headlines and conceptual drive are clearly focused. You can deliver quickly or refine deliberately. You lead, present and advocate for your work, balancing responsibilities working solo or with a team. Your portfolio showcases smart, diverse campaigns and shows range of experience beyond a single industry. You have a sharp eye for detail, a deep respect for strategy and a nuanced command of tone and voice that flexes to reach diverse audiences. You also bring brand + business intuition that influences and allows you to collaborate in ways that make fellow creatives and business-minded stakeholders go “wow!”
Most importantly, you’re looking to join a company whose mission bridges success with empathy, build around individuals, teams, our clients and our firm.
What you'll do...
- Lead end-to-end omnichannel creative strategies for the firm's largest, most complex efforts and brand initiatives
- Partners with senior firm leaders and matrixed teams to develop and execute strategic messaging, creative communication strategies, campaign concepts, tactical ideation, content execution, client materials and other deliverables that bring our differentiated brand to life
- Leads strategic messaging direction and/or verbal direction of content and campaigns, in collaboration with other creative and strategic partners; ensures approved strategy and creative direction remains intact throughout project’s lifecycle.
- Making highly complex issues easily understood — in service of persuading audiences to think, feel or do something — by delivering world-class creative, from strategy all the way through to execution
- Translating stakeholder needs into creative strategies and experiences that build brand equity
- Developing creative for different media and tailoring (or generating new) creative to fit channel-specific context
- Working in a team-based or matrix environment — sometimes with complex, changing dynamics and shifting priorities — to gain stakeholder input/approval and meet deadlines
- Coaching others to ensure message, creative strategy and brand voice alignment
Position Type
Home Office
Position Schedule
Full-Time
EEO Statement
Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Posting Location
Missouri, St. Louis
Company Description
Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report.
¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report.
¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
External Flexible Work Option(s)
Hybrid, Onsite
Awards and Accolades
At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.
Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
Check out our Canadian awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
Check out our Canadian awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones
Country
United States
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Position Requirements
What you'll need...
Current INTERNAL home-based associates: While this role is posted as hybrid, if selected and accepted, you may retain your home-based status. Edward Jones intends in good faith to continue offering the role as home-based, though future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work.
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree
- 6-10 Years Experience as a Copywriter or Lead Copywriter
- Deep understanding of channel best practices, including social media, websites, email, direct mail and digital media
- Experience with the following: Agency Management, Campaign Management and Optimization, Communication/Messaging Strategy, Content Development, Go-to-Market/Integrated Marketing Strategy, Marketing Analytics/Measuring Effectiveness and Omnichannel Management
Current INTERNAL home-based associates: While this role is posted as hybrid, if selected and accepted, you may retain your home-based status. Edward Jones intends in good faith to continue offering the role as home-based, though future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work.
Salary Information
Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.
