Junior Copywriter

Job overview

The Junior Copywriter role is onsite in Chicago, IL, with compensation of $57,000–$63,000 per year. The position is part of Home Chef’s marketing department. Home Chef aims to inspire and enable people to cook simple, delicious meals, and its Tempo brand offers ready-to-heat meals. The copywriter develops clear, engaging, persuasive, and on-brand content across digital advertising, lifecycle marketing, video, social, retail, and web channels. The role helps translate creative briefs and strategic messages into consumer-facing copy that supports marketing campaigns and brand communication.

What you'll do

• Create native content for video and still images
• contribute ideas in brainstorming sessions
• interpret creative briefs into copy for emails, retail and point-of-purchase signage, web pages, digital ads, social channels, collateral, and campaign videos
• use and help evolve the style guide
• collaborate with design, marketing, retail, and product teams
• proofread and edit copy.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

junior copywriter

chicago il

home chef

marketing

copywriting

digital advertising

lifecycle marketing

social content

video copy

retail signage

$57k–$63k

0–10% travel

bachelor’s degree

medical dental vision

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
• 401(k)
• flexible spending accounts.

Why this role

The role requires a four-year degree and at least one year of brand or consumer-facing copywriting experience; travel requirement is 0–10%.

About the employer

Home Chef is hiring for this role. Industry: All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing. Sector: 31.