Head of Copywriting - Writing Studio

Role Description

Dropbox is looking for an accomplished copywriter editor and manager to lead the Copywriting team.

The role is on a newly centralized Writing Team within Comms and Brand that is responsible for the quality consistency and excellence of writing across the company. This person will play a key role in how Dropbox shows up in the world for our customers by managing a team of writers who create landing pages long-form stories product updates emails and other highly visible and impactful Marketing assets. Along with editing content written by the team they’ll function as a managing editor triaging requests from across Marketing assessing team resources and refining the intake process where needed.

As part of their role they’ll collaborate closely with leaders and teams across the company—including Integrated Marketing Brand Marketing Communications PMM Engineering and Legal—to ensure content is as clear engaging and brand aligned as possible. They’ll also serve as a strategic editorial partner in improving the quality of content across the company.

Responsibilities

• Own the intake process with our content strategy team refining operations where needed for a smoother deliver and better results

• Edit content drafts including campaign messaging customer stories emails and other highly visible assets

• Solicit feedback and obtain approvals from stakeholders (including senior leaders) across the company

• Mentor a team of writers and uplevel their skills

• Assist the team in navigating stakeholder feedback while prioritizing writing excellence and our brand voice

Requirements

• 12+ years experience in either journalism editorial content or copywriting with a minimum of 4 years at a tech company in a content role

• 3-4 years experience leading a high-performing content team

• A proven track record of writing excellent content; you have a stellar portfolio of engaging and diverse content including webpage copy narrative stories campaigns and more.

• Superb communication skills and a collaborative spirit; you know how to solicit and reconcile feedback from a wide range of stakeholders and you can work across teams to develop content that elevates our brand

• Organized and process-oriented: you know how to build a process and hold a team to deadlines

• Demonstrated passion for writing on every dimension: voice style rhythm structure economy of language and grammatical precision

• A curiosity for technology and how it impacts the way we live communicate and work

Preferred Qualifications

• You’ve worked as both an editor and a writer in your career

• A mix of journalism and tech marketing experience

• Writing has been at the heart of your career. We aren’t looking for a content strategist who has mostly been focused on governance distribution SEO or other areas of content strategy that are less writing oriented. This is a role for a highly skilled storyteller.

• We’re also not looking for people who have only worked in journalism and have no experience writing in a marketing or brand context.

Compensation