Description Position at Fingerpaint Marketing
As a Senior Copywriter, you will be the voice of our brands, translating complex clinical data and scientific ideas into compelling, strategically sound creative campaigns. You will partner closely with Art Directors to craft standout work across all channels, taking ownership of complex projects while mentoring junior talent.
Responsibilities:- Creative Execution & Strategy: Provide executional firepower on concepting efforts with a strong focus on strategy, brand narrative, and creative cohesion across the portfolio.
- Creative Partnership: Partner seamlessly with Art Directors and Designers to co-create standout, strategically focused concepts and multi-channel campaigns.
- Brand Voice Ownership: Ensure brands maintain a cohesive verbal identity, voice, tone, and messaging architecture across all tactics.
- Scientific & Clinical Mastery: Gain a deep understanding of complex scientific ideas, clinical data, and disease-state relevance to ensure copy is both medically accurate and creatively inspiring.
- Project & Workload Management: Manage complex copy projects independently under tight deadlines, while providing oversight and support on smaller initiatives.
- Briefing & Planning: Help develop and review creative briefs that provide sharp strategic insight and creative inspiration.
- Client Interfacing: Demonstrate an intimate understanding of client products and marketing challenges; represent the agency at client meetings, lead conce pt presentations, and attend social events as appropriate.
- Business Acumen: Maintain a solid understanding of brand tactic timelines, budgets, and the overall brand plan.
What It Takes:- Experience: 4-5+ years of advertising agency experience, with a proven track record in pharmaceutical/healthcare advertising (HCP and/or DTC).
- A strong creative portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, strategic agility, and exceptional writing across digital, print, and video channels.
- Outstanding collaboration skills to work effectively with your art partner, as well as other agency disciplines (Account Management, Medical/Scientific Affairs, Digital Strategy, etc.).
- Excellent presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to command a room when pitching to internal teams and clients.
- Familiarity with FDA regulations, medical/legal/regulatory (MLR) review processes, and AMA Manual of Style guidelines.
- Experience managing, mentoring, or guiding junior writers is a strong plus.
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint) for writing and formatting presentations. Familiarity with digital workflow and collaboration tools (e.g., Teams, Slack) and cloud-based regulatory platforms (e.g., Veeva PromoMats) is preferred.
Don't meet every single requirement? That's okay! Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Fingerpaint, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles! Our team of qualified recruiters can match you with the right opportunity.
