
Senior Direct Response Copywriter, Personal Finance
Launch Potato
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $90,000 - $110,000 per year
Job Level
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About the role
- Drive measurable growth by creating, adapting, and optimizing direct response copy across high-impact campaigns and placements, ensuring alignment with internal and partner goals, platform best practices, and compliance standards.
- Adapt and iterate on proven copy frameworks: Translate winning structures (listicles, ads, FALPs, landing pages) to new partners, offers, placements, and channels.
- Assist with general creative output: This includes development of short-form ad copy like headlines and longer-form assets like listicle creatives, video scripts, and landing pages.
- Execute mechanical punch-ups and structured variations: Tighten headlines, body copy, and hooks; produce new iterations based on existing winners to expand testing capacity.
- Build and update offer-specific copy: Develop copy for well-defined offers, incorporating feedback and direction from the team.
- Support compliance-driven revisions and partner updates: Implement required copy changes due to compliance, product updates, or partner requests across ads and pages.
- Develop new paid acquisition headlines and variations: Write and iterate Meta and Google ad headlines by adapting proven angles and collaborating with UA teams.
- Contribute new test ideas and competitive insights: Propose and test new creative derived from market research competitor insights, performance trends, or team collaboration; log and share findings to inform testing strategy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience writing performance-driven, direct response copy for digital marketing campaigns, specifically in the financial industry
- Proven CRO background with a documented history of optimizing creative across campaigns over months to years
- Strong conceptual writing skills with an established research framework for identifying emerging and resonant copy angles
- Proficiency in analyzing and interpreting performance data in Looker or comparable analytics software like Tableau or Microsoft Power BI
- Compliance trained, with a general understanding of risk hierarchy and comfortability networking with compliance stakeholders
- Comfortable writing for and translating winning copy across formats, including listicle, landing pages, video scripts, and Meta and Google ads
- Expertise on at least a few financial products and services, esp. complex ones, including but not limited to: Credit Cards, Debt Consolidation, App Discovery, Play-to-Win Gaming Apps, Home Equity, HYSA and Checking Accounts, or Life and Car Insurances
- Familiarity with using LLMs as a thinking and writing partner, with a clear knowledge of how and when to use LLM output, and more importantly, when to avoid using it
- Examples or case studies of the above
Benefits
- Base salary is set according to market rates for the nearest major metro
- profit-sharing bonus
- competitive benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
direct response copywritingperformance-driven writingcopy optimizationconceptual writingdata analysisCROcompliance revisionscreative developmentad copywritingcopy iteration
Soft Skills
collaborationnetworkingresearchcreativityadaptabilitycommunicationproblem-solvinginsight generationfeedback incorporationtesting strategy development
Certifications
compliance training