Copy Editor, Editorial Services

Job Description:

Dentsu Creative

Dentsu Creative US is comprised of audacious thinkers and award-winning collaborators across the United States who blend local knowledge with global expertise.

Choosing substance over stunts, our Modern Creative mandate is about unlocking sustained growth and holistic impact for brands in ways that Create Culture, Change Society and Invent the Future. We do it daily for notable brands.

Our borderless approach allows us to assemble the best talent around each brief, tapping into the expertise of the 9,000+ people in dentsu international’s global creative network. This integrated model also allows our talent to learn about and explore the breadth of career possibilities within Dentsu Creative.

Job Description

Reporting to the Editorial Manager, Editorial Services, you will proofread and edit direct mail, digital assets, social media content, and all omnichannel forms of client marketing messaging and brand positioning to ensure there are no spelling, grammatical, typographical, compositional, or other errors in copy. You'll collaborate with a team of copy editors, creatives, print production, and other specialties. You'll develop an understanding of our clients’ brand standards and gain institutional knowledge of each to maintain cohesiveness and consistency when proofreading and copy editing our clients' marketing components.

• You'll maintain rigorous scrutiny of advertising copy to identify and mark up any errors or queries regarding grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and client style/terminology nuances; this includes full comparison reads or cold (‘as is’) reads and contextual/common-sense review.

• You'll work in a collaborative environment, staying aligned on daily proofreading deliverables for multiple clients.

• You'll help write within a limited scope, such as pre-headers and subject lines.

• You're comfortable questioning when there may be uncertainty in the text, using a structured proofreading process to ensure error-free copy while providing a final quality check of all assets.

• You'll follow process and quality procedures, ensuring high-level accuracy metrics for all components.

• You'll create and follow internal client style guides and will perform other Editorial tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

• 2 years minimum experience proofreading or copy-editing in a high-volume agency setting

• Bachelor’s degree in English or Journalism; in lieu of degree, equivalent experience in a relevant field required

• Knowledge of editing and annotating in Adobe Acrobat Pro

• Excellent command of the English language as it relates to advertising copy: grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and clients’ brand preferences and writing-style nuances

• Working knowledge of the AP Stylebook, The Chicago Manual of Style, or The Elements of Style

• Workfront or Figma and other workflow tool experience

• Excited at the possibility of writing limited-scope creative as needed

• We are only accepting candidates in the Chicago area as some office time is to be expected.

Additional Information

The anticipated salary range for this position is ($51,000 - $83,375). Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com

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Location:

Chicago

Brand:

Dentsu Creative

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

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