About Us

We'd like to hear from you if:

• You want to pursue content planning and development as a long-term career.
• You have experience writing long-form content such as blog posts, guides, eBooks, etc.
• You’re comfortable as a manager of one.
• You’re a stickler for style, grammar, punctuation, and finding the words and phrases that best capture an idea or feeling.
• You are incredibly well-organized and motivated.
• You want to join a fast-growing organization to work as part of a team that works with industry-leading companies.
• You understand and have experience with on-page SEO.
• You understand distribution channels for content, including search engines, social media, and email.
• You're able to describe or create a content strategy for a given audience.
• You have a reliable internet connection/access.
• Know how to construct a narrative that connects the reader’s needs to the proposed solution (the client's product/service) and compels them to take action.
• Are comfortable with writing about technical topics in detail, including but not limited to WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, Linux, etc.
• You are comfortable receiving constructive criticism and advice aimed at helping you to grow and develop your content writing skills even further.

In your role, you'll need to:

• Create, edit, and manage content for a variety of mediums that could include: email, newsletters, blogs, white papers/guides, thought leadership articles, customer case studies, website pages, webinar slide decks, sales collateral, event collateral, and video scripts.
• Maintain the master content calendar that schedules all aspects of the creation and delivery of content throughout the year.
• Understand and apply SEO best practices, including formatting (H1 tags, etc.).
• Provide meta descriptions with each article draft.
• Create content tailored to a specific promotion or business goals.
• Provide feedback, suggestions, and strategy for improving client outcomes.
• Be a kick-ass teammate, communicator, and collaborator.

Requirements

• Must be very fluent in written English.
• Problem-solving aptitude.
• Analytical mind with business acumen.
• Excellent communication skills.
• BSc in Design, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is a plus.
• Experience working as a part of a remote team where you weren't micro-managed.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours (ideally 5-6 hours overlap with UK Time zone).
• 20 days paid holiday per year

Salary and compensation

Benefits

🌎 Distributed team

⏰ Async

🏖 Paid time off

Overview 

BuddyBoss is a suite of products and services that help experts and leaders easily sell courses, memberships and build online communities with WordPress. We are seeking a versatile marketing copywriter to lead the creation of copy across all of our marketing assets and campaigns. 

Must Have

• English As First Language - This role will only suit someone whose first language is english. We need someone who can flawlessly write in the style, energy and tone of voice of our brand. 

• Multimedia Copy Experience - Must have experience writing copy for various forms of media including Video Scripting, Landing Page & Web Copy, Email Marketing & Social Media. 

• Multipurpose Copy Experience - Must have experience writing copy for a variety of purposes including Direct Response, Long & Short-form Ads, On-Page SEO & Search, Marketing & Brand Awareness content.

• Sample Portfolio - Must be able to share a variety of past sample work including at least 1 direct response video script (VSL), 1 brand awareness or informational video script, 2 contrasting ad copy examples (length, tone, objective etc.) 1 complete sales page or funnel page, and a selection of short-form social media copy.  

Should Have

• Marketing Team Experience - Should have experience working as part of a small to mid-sized marketing team or agency.  

• SaaS Product / Subscription Service Experience - Should have experience writing copy for a SaaS or Subscription Service. 

• Free, Low-Ticket & High Value Products - Should have experience writing copy to promote products and services across a price spectrum including products with a single transaction value in excess of $2,500

• Customer Avatar, Lifecycle & Journey Map - Should be confident working with Marketing, Product and Customer Success leaders to write copy targeting specific customer avatars, at specific points in their customer lifecycle and customer journey waypoints.

• Aptitude For Process Documentation - We will expect you to engage with our operations team to document and systematize the processes of creating copy to help standardise repeatable work requests and procedures.  

• WordPress Ecosystem Knowledge - Should have a broad understanding of the WordPress ecosystem including familiarity with a range of the most popular tools used to build websites and manage businesses through WordPress, as BuddyBoss is a suite of products and services for WordPress users. 

• Timezone Availability - Although this is a fully virtual position, candidates should be geographically located in a timezone that has some substantial working-day crossover with UTC+4 to allow real-time collaboration with key leadership.

Could Have

• Copywriting Certification & Training - Whilst not required, any certifications, training or courses in Copywriting, Direct Response, Search & SEO, Creative Writing, Scriptwriting, Content Marketing would be very advantageous. We will look favourably on candidates who continuously invest in their own learning from any well respected internet marketing institutions or experts outside of formal education.

• Located In Dubai Or Willing To Relocate - Although not a requirement, candidates located in Dubai or willing to relocate would be highly advantageous.

90 Day Expectations

Within the first 90 days we expect you to have completed the following:

• Brand Voice Report - within the first 30 days we will want you to review and analyse our existing web, written ad and video copy and deliver a report to the executive team describing what the “voice” of the BuddyBoss brand currently is, identifying the common elements we have been instinctively employing to portray that voice, and identifying opportunities we have to improve our copy to better represent that voice.

• New Copywriting Task Management - Within the first 60 days we expect you to have taken over all new copywriting projects and tasks from our CEO.

Commitment 

This is a full time role starting immediately with a minimum of 40hrs commitment 5 days a week. This will be a fully virtual work-from-home position with no travel typically required. Successful candidate will have the option to work from our office in Dubai if they are already located here. Successful candidate will not be expected to relocate but if they wanted to that would be encouraged and very advantageous. 

Accountability & Reporting

You will report directly to the Marketing Manager or CEO and will be accountable for all copywriting duties assigned by them. 

Probation Period

You will be engaged for an initial three-month probationary period, after which you will have a performance review and, dependent on the outcome, will be offered the position.

Salary & Compensation

We will offer a competitive salary that is commensurate with your experience and reflects your location.   

Salary and compensation