Digital Copywriter (Contract)
HybridNew Gloucester, Maine, United States
Job Summary
Write website copy that is clear, structured for search, and built to convert across all pages, applying on-page SEO best practices and GEO principles. Craft interface and UX copy for labels, microcopy, and CTAs, then audit existing content for clarity and alignment. Manage and update content directly in CMS platforms like WordPress, Squarespace, and Shopify while building custom AI workflows for structured production and version tracking. Collaborate with the Experience team on web builds and cross-channel projects, delivering conversion-focused copy without needing to be chased. This contract role requires 20–30 hours per week starting September 2026, with a competitive hourly rate for a New England-based hybrid position.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of copywriting experience at a creative, digital, or marketing agency
- Candidates without agency experience
- Web-first portfolio
- Website copy
- Landing pages
- SEO-driven content
- Real SEO knowledge
- On-page SEO
- Technical level SEO
- Real projects
- Strong technical proficiency
- Airtight grammar
- Spelling
- Writing mechanics
- CMS
- AI workflows
- Spreadsheets
- Interface copy experience
- Microcopy
- UX copy
- Product teams
- UX teams
- Attention to detail
- Catching errors
- Consistency
- Accuracy
- Not offloading responsibility to AI
- Fast and flexible
- Short timelines
- New England-based
- Hybrid role
- Set in-office days
- In-person collaboration
- Contract (1099)
- Not full-time employment
- Approximately 20–30 hours per week
- September 2026
Desired Qualifications
- Understanding of how people navigate, search, and convert online
- Strong SEO fundamentals
- Sharp eye for interface and UX copy
- Ability to manage and produce content at a technical level
- Not just a creative one
- Deep proficiency with AI tools
- Built custom workflows
- Used AI for structured content production
- Know how to apply it across the operational, real-world side of content
- Speak to what you've built and why
- GEO (generative engine optimization) principles
- E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness)
- Content structure
- Author attribution
- Sourcing
- Copy that demonstrates real subject matter depth
- Labels
- Microcopy
- CTAs
- Error states
- Onboarding flows
- Audit existing web copy
- Clarity
- Consistency
- SEO gaps
- Alignment with strategic direction
- WordPress
- Squarespace
- Shopify
- Independently manage and update content
- Content operations
- Track versions
- Maintain accuracy
- Catch your own errors
- Work inside client brand systems
- Translate strategic direction into production-ready copy
- No long ramp-up
- Conversion-focused copy
- Digital channels
- Clear understanding of objectives and outcomes
- Absorb brand voice quickly
- Apply it consistently
- Formats
- Clients
- Delivery timelines
- Self-edit rigorously
- Clean
- Experience team
- Marketers
- Strategists
- Designers
- Project managers
- Brand and growth teams
- Cross channels
- Manage your own workload
- Communicate proactively
- Timelines
- Deliver without needing to be chased
- Think about structure
- Search
- User behavior
- Voice
- Operationally capable
- Production and administrative side of content
- Creative side
- Use AI the way a skilled professional uses any tool
- Get to better work faster
- Avoid doing the thinking
- Catch what others miss
- Priorities shift
- Communicate clearly
- Take ownership
- First draft
- Final polish
- Take the work seriously
- Not yourself
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