Head of Copy, Popsa
4-5 days a week in office
AI enabled photo printing company
Job no longer available
AI enabled photo printing company
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
4-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To automatically curate your life story from the data in your photos.
Role
Who you are
- A portfolio of standout copywriting work (combination of agency and in-house, ideally)
- Experience working across all the channels – particularly digital marketing – with a variety of integrated brand campaigns to show for it
- Experience shaping and informing brand strategy and establishing high-level guidelines to direct copywriting and creative output
- Experience managing teams of writers and overseeing copy output in different languages/ across different territories internationally
- Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills: you can articulate your ideas clearly, with a natural enthusiasm that gets people excited
- A positive, encouraging mentoring approach: you’ll be a master of constructive feedback, emphasising a can-do attitude to help people find their potential
- Attention to detail: no typos, grammar mistakes, repetition or cliches slipping by – ever
- Experience working in a similar tech/ startup environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a very special kind of writer to take ownership of our brand voice and oversee our copy output across all the channels, including in-app UX. You’ll be a natural leader, who shines strategically and conceptually. With a knack for big ideas and a head for strategy, you’ll enjoy interrogating briefs as much as you enjoy delivering on them
- As Head of Copy, you’ll be no stranger to brand voice work, having a fair few TOV guidelines under your belt. You’ll have mastered a naturally persuasive copywriting style, effortlessly communicating USPs with a down-to-earth, conversational tone. And you’ll be experienced in mentoring writers and working with translation agencies to manage output across territories
- In this role, you won’t just be overseeing work from the team – you’ll be dazzling us with your own words and ideas: long and short copy, anything from social ads to big campaigns. It’s a pretty hands-on role but as a big picture person, you’ll bring this perspective to everything you do, encouraging idea-driven, strategically smart, connected thinking in the team
- Ideally, you’ll already have experience working in a startup or similar tech company. You’ll enjoy being in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and building close relationships with your colleagues will be important to you. We’re a sociable team so that’s important to us. Normally we’re based in Soho (often found socialising after hours in the office) but mainly you’ll find us on zoom for now
- As a creative team, we work very closely with our marketing team and company founders. Today, there’s a strong digital marketing focus, including automated and broadcast email, social content and paid social advertising, but we’re exploring exciting new brand and partnership opportunities and you’ll be instrumental in shaping the work we do
- Reporting to CMO
Application process
- 1. Apply via Otta
- 2. Video call with senior team member (1hr max)
- 3. Copy task set, to show how you apply your skills and thinking, to be presented to a small panel of the Popsa team (including our CMO and CEO)
- 4. Final chat with CMO (30 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Millions of people have huge collections of photos on their phones but they hardly ever look at them. Popsa's goal is to help people record and share their experiences irrespective of their eye for design or their technical abilities.
The combination of a much more sophisticated aesthetic and the use of automation technology will help enable Popsa to turn the industry model on its head. Popsa has been developing applied Machine Learning pipelines to automatically select photos, filter out inappropriate content, and design them into beautiful artefacts such as photo books and journals.
Popsa's approach has led to the company becoming one of the fastest growing startups in Europe. Popsa was named as the UK's fastest growing software company in 2020 and was placed 3rd (after Bulb & Revolut) overall in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50.
Popsa's focus is to further reduce the multi-hour process associated with printing photo albums. Already down to a few minutes, Popsa want to ultimately ensure the time required is zero. Moving forward, Popsa has no interest in simply being a ‘printing’ utility. Today’s app is just the start for this promising business.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2021
$11.9m
SERIES A
Oct 2019
$4.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $21.9m
Company benefits
- EQUITY
- SALARY REVIEWS
- TEAM BUILDING
- TRANSPARENCY
- TECHNOLOGY
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Liam Houghton
(CEO)Previously Co Founded at Digipill in 2012 which he worked at for 3 years. Has also been the Chief Product Officer at Pollen, YUZA and BETFUZE.
Tom Cohen
(CTO)Previously CTO & Co-Founder at YUZA for 7 years and Software Engineer at BAE Systems for 1 year.
Share this job