Freelance Proofreader

About the role

This is a second shift position working hours will be 11:0AM - 7:00PM EST. Proofreads a high volume of marketing materials and brand communications, including product packaging, in-store signage for retail and channel partners, e-commerce, and brand guidelines. Works closely with editors and the legal, production, and project marketing teams to ensure accuracy and integrity across all deliverables.

Responsibilities

- Ensuring brand quality and consistency across thousands of print and digital mechanicals distributed to global partners - Proofreading marketing collateral, such as comparison signs, collections signs, product pages, features pages, and marketing guides - Dedication to brand excellence and to maintaining the highest level of quality and confidentiality - Ability to check specs beyond grammar sharing some QA/QC responsibilities - Work within Adobe Acrobat or other linked pending review - Be the keeper on brand guidelines for major national and global brands - Precise proofreading for all deliverables in a timely manner - Communicate with offshore teams and PMs to transfer work through design, proofreading, QA and delivery

Requirements

- A minimum of 4 years’ experience in editing, copyediting, and/or proofreading marketing, advertising and technical materials at a publication, design firm, corporate marketing communications department, or ad agency, preferably for a creative or consumer brand - Demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to work diplomatically in a dynamic, confidential studio environment - Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to focus, prioritize, and pivot in a fast-paced environment - Experience working for global brands - Ability to work with offshore QA teams - An understanding of the production process and of brand channel, retail, interactive, and packaging practices - Strong organizational and time management skills to handle concurrent projects, track milestones, manage active deadlines, advance deliverables, and find solutions to daily challenges - Able to navigate complex processes and tools, including a specialized ticketing system to edit and route deliverables - Flexible during high-volume periods (longer hours and weekends) and able to adapt and assimilate immediately if called on to work for a few hours within an environment of constant change, simultaneous projects, and shifting priorities and timelines - Familiarity with Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop, Fido, and iWork