Marketing Strategist & Communications Writer - Lydon & Associates : Job Details

Lydon is a dynamic creative agency that integrates decades of experience in marketing communications and design to innovate and empower our clients to DO/AMAZING—and we are looking to bolster our team with fresh talent to match. If you're a uniquely gifted marketing strategist and writer with a passion for expressing complex marketing concepts in digital and interactive design, let's talk.

You must be:

• Ambitious and entrepreneurial
• Ready to exercise your potential and grow your career rapidly
• Self-starter who takes initiative
• Passionate about your craft
• Motivated to define and build the next chapter of our agency's strategic marketing capabilities, with the potential to grow into a leadership role

Responsibilities:

• Strategy: Participate in or lead internal and external strategy meetings, create marketing plans, develop campaigns, and analyze data and insights to drive outstanding solutions that engage target audiences through personalized, customer-centric content and approaches
• Writing: Roll up your sleeves, get in the trenches, and write content daily—that means turning complex information into compelling copy, product features into benefits-driven messaging, and corporate-speak into human stories, for both long-form and short-form content (including editing and proofing as needed)
• Interview: Craft topics and conduct external interviews of key stakeholders by asking thoughtful, probing questions to gain required insights
• Research: Conduct market research using industry-standard processes and resources
• Attention to detail: Combine big-picture thinking with accuracy, regulatory/compliance standards, and any applicable style or brand guidelines on all projects
• Think visually: Must be able to work with designers by writing to visual solutions and tactics
• Live Lydon Values daily: Collaboration, innovation, respect, integrity and hard work

Other ways you will contribute to our collective success:

• Provide critical thinking and creative problem solving in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborate across all agency teams to help articulate, visualize and realize concepts that achieve clients' marketing goals and company objectives
• Support internal initiatives as needed to keep our agency vibrant and fuel its growth
• Challenge yourself to deliver consistent, outstanding work on a daily basis

Requirements for consideration:

• No fewer than 3 years relevant professional experience
• Not less than a bachelor's degree in relevant field (i.e. marketing, advertising, journalism, communications, business, English or related)
• Experience in B2B and B2C marketing and at least one of the following verticals: financial services, IT services/technology and industrial/manufacturing

What we offer:

• Collaborative, supportive and fun agency culture built on mutual respect
• Hands-on involvement weaving our powerful marketing communications strategy into a wide range of B2B and B2C projects and tactics, from corporate branding and identity to sales collateral, multi-channel digital campaigns, presentations and proposals, trade advertising, product launches, video, website development, and more
• People-focused values and a commitment to individual career growth
• Flexibility to help ensure a positive work/life balance
• Generous benefits package including company-paid health insurance, 401(k) plan, annual profit-sharing bonus plan, and more

To stand out from the crowd, email us directly at [email protected] with your resume and a cover letter telling us what appeals to you about our company and what special traits you could bring to our team.

Learn more about us at www.lydondesign.com.