Senior Editor

Description

Position at Fingerpaint Marketing

Reset your expectations of a health and wellness agency. Independent by design and built on a foundation of empathy, Fingerpaint celebrates what you bring as both a professional and an individual. With talent across the United States and Europe launching more than 200 brands, we are committed to creating and executing meaningful experiences. In 2021, Fingerpaint was named to Ad Age's Best Places to Work and was awarded Agency of the Year by Med Ad News. Here, creativity happens naturally-we attract top talent and give them a space to grow and collaborate.

Objectives of this role:

We're on the hunt for a senior bilingual editor who isn't a settler. If you are bilingual in English and Spanish, are dedicated to error-free jobs that are grammatically correct, and follow relevant client/style guidelines, we want to hear from you.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Edits/proofreads advertising, educational, training, and consumer manuscripts, layouts, and digital assignments in both English and Spanish
• Translates and transcreates English copy into Spanish, ensuring neutral Spanish across Spanish-speaking target populations
• Ensures in-house Spanish translations and transcreations are accurate and ready for Certificate of Translations (COTs)
• Serves as training supervisor and model brand editing responsibilities for interns and associate medical editors under guidance of associate editorial director/editorial director/VP, editorial director
• Reads for correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling; language and style consistency; accuracy; sense/clarity; required copy
• Ensures relevant standards (eg, client/brand, AMA, FDA) are met
• Knowledgeable of and remains current on FDA guidelines
• Creates and maintains editorial style guides for each assigned brand
• Assigned as editor to 1 to 2 "heavy" brands and 1 to 2 "light" brands (more if capable)
• Creates and maintains editorial style guides for each assigned brand
• Stays current with standards for co-editors' accounts and is able to cover other brands when needed

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• Excellent English and Spanish writing proficiency and knowledge of grammatical rules in both languages
• Ability to translate from English to Spanish and vice versa
• A minimum of 3 years of previous pharmaceutical editorial experience
• Ability to ensure documents conform to accepted written language rules
• Knowledge of AMA Manual of Style
• Knowledge of FDA guidelines is a plus

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare agency experience

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.Fingerpaint Group provides equal employment [and affirmative action] opportunities to all applicants and employees. We are proud to recruit qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or citizenship status.