Assistant Creative Director/Copywriter Job at Harken Inc., Pewaukee, WI

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  • Harken Inc.
  • Pewaukee, WI

Job Description

Harken is At The Front of sailing. Our company has been in the business of designing, manufacturing, and marketing performance hardware for boats in the Olympics to the America’s Cup and beyond for over 50 years. Today we apply our technology in our Safety and Rescue Division products too. If you have an “Let me try that” attitude, and enjoy a casual, but fast paced work environment, let’s talk.

TITLE: Assistant Creative Director/Copywriter

REPORTS TO: Marketing Director

BASED AT: Harken, Inc., Pewaukee, WI

STATUS: Full Time, 1 st shift, Exempt

Curious mind working in the word space within our inside agency, to concept, and then realize ideas that become respected business assets deployed in print, digital, video and social media formats. The ideal candidate will develop engaging content including advertising, targeting Harken marine and industrial users. Successful candidate will be comfortable working with advancing technologies and marketing trends. News gathering/reporting or agency experience preferred. A background in sailing is helpful, but the ability to learn about idiosyncratic, technical products and their users much more important.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Deliver words supporting a wide variety of marketing communications projects.
  • Self-start. Don’t wait, investigate.
  • Love and understand our Brand and its voice. Communicate what is most important to users about Harken
  • Input on project creative strategy
  • Consistently create ideas that advance those strategies
  • Effectively pitch those
  • Create the voice for the concepts that get approved
  • Collaborate and communicate effectively in and out of the creative team
  • Be relentless about detail
  • Deliver on time.
  • Be able to take friendly suggestions in stride. Understand there is always a mutually-acceptable solution and it is a creative person’s obligation to drive to it
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Position Requirements:

  • Reporter’s mindset that seeks to understand what audiences need to know and how to create it.
  • BA in Marketing, Journalism, Business or Communications
  • 5+ yrs. Relevant experience with a portfolio of samples to which you can bring context, illustrating your craft.
  • Excellent verbal and writing skills in English.
  • Ability to create concepts working both independently and in collaboration.
  • Exceptional time and project management skills, including the ability to handle multiple stakeholders and subtly different priorities.
  • MS word, PPT, experience with Content Management Systems a plus.
  • Scripting for Video – including dialog also a plus.
  • Hands on experience with SEO and web traffic metrics.
  • Expertise in social media platforms.
  • Ability to add, sub-tract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, feel or handle objects, tools or controls; and reach with hands or arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch and crawl. Must be able to walk or stand on concrete for up to 4 hours at a time. 
  • Must be able to lift 50 pounds without assistance.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision; color vision; peripheral vision; depth perception and the ability to focus.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all qualifications, responsibilities, duties or skills required.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Submit your resume via email to: jobs@harken.com

Harken is an equal opportunity employer

 

 

 

 

Job Tags

Full time, Casual work, Shift work,

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