Success Academy Charter Schools

Senior Copywriter, Performance Marketing

Success Academy Charter Schools$100K — $110K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8+ years of experience in copywriting with a focus on performance and growth marketing.
  • Impressive portfolio showcasing measurable business results in campaign performance.
  • Exceptional writing and editing skills, particularly in a digital context.
  • Familiarity with crafting content for various digital advertising mediums including social and email.
  • Solid understanding of customer journey mapping and audience segmentation.
  • Ability to balance creative brand storytelling with direct response goals.
  • Experience leveraging data and testing to enhance copy performance.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement integrated performance marketing campaigns to drive application and enrollment metrics.
  • Create tailored messaging platforms and campaign concepts targeting specific audiences.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate audience insights into effective creative strategies.
  • Contribute to a culture of testing by developing creative experiments and roadmaps.
  • Write compelling copy for diverse digital channels including paid social and email marketing.
  • Craft audience-focused messaging that resonates with families, caregivers, and prospective staff.
  • Analyze campaign performance to optimize future messaging and creative initiatives.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits program.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
Full Job Description
The Senior Copywriter, Performance Marketing will develop messaging, campaigns, and creative concepts that drive measurable results across digital and other channels.

This role combines strategic thinking, campaign development, audience insights, and performance-focused copywriting. The ideal candidate understands both brand and conversion-someone who can write compelling headlines, develop campaign concepts, optimize messaging based on performance data, and create creative that moves audiences to action.

You'll work closely with performance marketers, designers, strategists, video producers, and analysts to build campaigns that increase awareness, generate demand, and grow enrollment.Responsibilities
Campaign Development
  • Develop integrated performance marketing campaigns that drive applications, event registrations, lead generation, and enrollment.
  • Create campaign concepts, messaging platforms, and value propositions tailored to key audiences.
  • Partner with creative, marketing, analytics teams and partner teams to translate insights into creative strategy.
  • Contribute to testing roadmaps and creative experimentation.
Performance Copywriting

Write high-performing copy across:
  • Paid social
  • Digital display
  • Landing pages
  • Search
  • Videos
  • Email / CRM
  • SMS campaigns
  • Direct Response and DM Campaigns
  • Event promotion campaigns
  • Enrollment marketing materials
  • Retargeting and nurture campaigns
Audience & Messaging Strategy
  • Develop messaging tailored to prospective families, caregivers, and community stakeholders as well as prospective staff.
  • Translate educational outcomes and school experiences into compelling, easy-to-understand audience benefits.
  • Build differentiated messaging that addresses awareness, consideration, and conversion stages.
  • Create audience-specific creative frameworks and testing hypotheses.
Optimization & Testing
  • Analyze campaign performance and apply learnings to future creative.
  • Develop and iterate on headline, messaging, and creative tests.
  • Partner with analysts and marketers to understand conversion drivers.
  • Continuously improve performance through experimentation and optimization.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with designers and art directors to create high-performing creative assets.
  • Collaborate with performance marketing, enrollment, brand, and communications teams.
  • Present creative concepts and campaign recommendations to stakeholders.
Qualifications
Required
  • 5-8+ years of copywriting experience including performance marketing, advertising, growth marketing, direct response, and/or digital marketing.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating performance-focused campaigns and measurable business results.
  • Exceptional copywriting and editing skills.
  • Experience writing for paid social, digital advertising, email, and conversion-focused channels.
  • Understanding of customer journeys, audience segmentation, and marketing funnels.
  • Ability to balance brand storytelling with conversion objectives.
  • Experience using data and testing to improve creative performance.
Preferred
  • Experience in education, consumer marketing, mission-driven organizations, or high-growth brands.
  • Experience partnering with media buyers, growth marketers, and analytics teams.
  • Knowledge of Meta, Google, YouTube, TikTok, and emerging digital advertising platforms.
  • Experience developing creative testing frameworks.
What Success Looks Like
  • Creates campaigns that increase qualified leads, applications, and enrollment.
  • Develops messaging that consistently improves engagement and conversion metrics.
  • Produces high-performing creative across digital channels.
  • Identifies audience insights that unlock new growth opportunities.
  • Elevates the quality of performance marketing creative across the organization.
  • Balances long-term brand building with short-term acquisition goals.
Key Traits
  • Strategic thinker
  • Strong writer and editor
  • Performance-minded
  • Data curious
  • Audience obsessed
  • Experimentation oriented
  • Collaborative
  • Highly organized
  • Comfortable moving quickly and testing often
  • Highly flexible
  • Receptive to feedback and adapts quickly


Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience. This position is not bonus eligible.

Compensation Range

$100,000-$110,000 USD

Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

About Success Academy Charter Schools

Success Academy Charter Schools is a network of 47 free, public charter schools serving 20,000 students in grades K-12 across New York City. Success Academy was founded in 2006 by Eva Moskowitz, a former New York City Council member. Success Academy schools are known for their rigorous academic curriculum, high standards, and emphasis on character development. Success Academy has been recognized for its success in closing the achievement gap and providing high-quality education to students from low-income families. Success Academy is headquartered in New York City and has schools located throughout the city.
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