Copywriter

Roles and responsibilities

• You will work closely with product managers and marketing managers on content production and planning. You will ensure quality and consistency, and improve our content strategy to achieve business objectives. You might review product-specific materials to help a product manager tell that story, but your responsibility will be to tell cross-cutting narratives that connect the dots between products, or groups of products. From IoT to the data centre, from cloud to the desktop, Ubuntu and Canonical bring together the best of open source to enable visionaries, entrepreneurs and changemakers to achieve their goals. This team tells that story.
• Write content for Canonical.com to deepen understanding of our portfolio
• Review and provide feedback on content to help our product and marketing teams tell engaging stories
• Collaborate to map the buyer’s journey and implement a content strategy that optimises that journey
• Maintain an editorial calendar for your content and provide progress updates to the broader team
• Perform content performance audits to understand the effectiveness of your content
• Participate in person in quarterly content planning sessions
  
  

What we are looking for

• Demonstrated interest in technology, preferably with open source at heart
• Ability to write authoritative and engaging content - portfolio of written work required
• Appreciation for the written word and the ability to write persuasive copy
• A problem solver: you don’t shy away from taking on challenges
• A finisher who sees projects through to completion
• Attention to detail and appreciation for standards
• Appreciation for knowledge sharing and a collaborative attitude
• Practical experience with search engine optimisation
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Desired candidate profile

• Applied skills in product marketing
• Applied knowledge of content marketing attribution
• An eye for layout and design
  
  

What we offer you

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events