sweetgreen is looking for a Junior Copywriter to help bring our creative vision + brand narrative to life. The Junior Copywriter will assist in ideating creative campaigns and brand moments to support a range of initiatives for our rapidly growing, mission-driven, storytelling-focused company.

Working as part of our narrative team, you will play a supporting role in the brand storytelling and creative vision of sweetgreen. You will develop narrative across brand campaigns + moments in addition to marketing pulses that build our brand, increase awareness and consumer engagement, and celebrate the many facets of our dynamic company, from supply chain to seasonal menu to social impact. 

We’re looking for a person who is fluent in food culture and beyond, transcending cultural passions with instinctive storytelling skills.

In this role, you will come up with campaign ideas, brand experiences, and brand moments, while writing short and long form copy across touchpoints including social platforms, email marketing, and paid media channels. Our ideal candidate is fanatically tuned into food and culture at large, alongside online/offline trends, and skilled in creating engaging digital (and the occasional print) content that connects with social audiences. A deep understanding of social platforms—including Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube—is a plus.

Core Job Duties + Responsibilities

• Develop a range of cross-platform brand concepts from ideation to execution, including: brand experiences, organic and paid social media content, in-store marketing, and in-app touchpoints
• Work with design, marketing, social teams to create rich storytelling experiences across brand touchpoints using both short and long form copy 
• Write clear, clever and engaging copy that cuts through the noise, elevates the customer experience, and tells a strong brand story connected to our menu and mission 

About You (minimum requirements):

• 2+ years experience in editorial copywriting at creative agency/studio or in-house at a brand
• Brand-centered portfolio showcasing both copy and concept capabilities through campaign work, social and digital brand storytelling
• Can write for a variety of outputs from three-word headlines to 1,000-word essays with dynamic, flexible voice
• A self-starter who can lead creative projects with a constant desire to improve + remain innovative in an ever-evolving marketplace
• You’re positive, solution-oriented and collaborative, happy to work with a number of different teams and stakeholders
• An independent thinker and experimenter who is constantly looking for new ways to surprise, delight, entertain and engage with viewers
• Knows what’s going on in culture—both on and offline—with eyes on what’s coming next

What you'll get:

• Three different medical plans to suit your and your family's needs
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Flexible PTO plan
• 401k program
• Paid family leave; we believe in fully supporting new parents
• Employee HSA and FSA
• Complimentary greens
• An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and by connecting them to real food
• To live the sweetlife and celebrate your passion + purpose
• A collaborative team of people who live our core values and have your back
• A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally
• Free sweetgreen swag

Come join the sweetlife!

About sweetgreen

sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen, our 3,500 team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we’re committed to leaving people better than we found them. We’re in the business of feeding people, and we’re out to change what that means.

sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.

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