Senior Writer

Monks is seeking a Senior Copywriter (Temp) to concept, write, and help bring integrated creative campaigns to life across two major financial-services brands. The work spans high-level campaign development and hands-on execution across TV, video, display, and social. Projects include a scripted, live-action Formula 1 campaign tied to major race events in Austin and Las Vegas, and documentary-style content featuring small-business owners, using existing footage to shape and extend stories across multiple channels.

Responsibilities

• Develop compelling creative concepts and copy for integrated campaigns across TV, video, display, and social.
• Write scripts, campaign messaging, headlines, taglines, social copy, and other supporting creative assets.
• Partner closely with art directors to develop cohesive concepts that work both visually and verbally.
• Translate high-level strategic and creative direction into polished, production-ready work.
• Contribute to both early-stage conceptual development and detailed execution as campaigns move forward.
• Support scripted, live-action campaign work, including short-form television and video spots.
• Help shape documentary-style stories using interview content and previously captured footage.
• Review existing footage and creative materials to identify strong narrative opportunities and new content extensions.
• Adapt core campaign ideas across multiple formats, platforms, placements, and audience touchpoints.
• Collaborate with creative directors, producers, project managers, and account partners throughout concepting, production, editing, and delivery.
• Participate in creative reviews, respond thoughtfully to feedback, and refine work quickly.
• Maintain consistency in brand voice, messaging, and creative quality across deliverables.
• Work efficiently in a fast-moving environment and deliver strong creative under tight timelines.

Requirements

• 5+ years of copywriting experience within an advertising agency, creative agency, or integrated marketing environment.
• A strong portfolio showcasing conceptual campaign work across multiple formats, particularly video, TV, social, and digital.
• Demonstrated experience developing high-level creative concepts and carrying them through execution.
• Strong experience writing scripts and supporting live-action or video production.
• Comfortable working across both traditional advertising and digital or social content.
• Able to move easily between big-picture thinking and detailed, hands-on copy development.
• Experience partnering closely with art directors and developing integrated creative as part of a writer–art director team.
• Strong understanding of the production process and the ability to refine work as creative moves from concept through shoot, edit, and final delivery.
• Able to work effectively with existing footage, interview content, and previously produced assets to shape new stories and creative executions.
• Clear, concise, and persuasive writing skills, with strong attention to tone, structure, and detail.
• Able to interpret creative briefs quickly, ask thoughtful questions, and develop relevant creative solutions.
• Confident presenting and explaining creative ideas to internal teams and stakeholders.
• Comfortable receiving feedback, exploring alternatives, and producing multiple creative options when needed.
• Highly collaborative, organized, and dependable.
• Able to work independently while remaining closely connected to the broader creative and production teams.
• Comfortable managing multiple deliverables and shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Available to work approximately 40 hours per week through the end of November.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on large national brands or highly visible integrated campaigns.
• Experience with financial services, payments, small-business, sports, or event-related campaigns.
• Experience developing creative for live events or culturally relevant moments.
• Experience working with documentary-style, interview-led, or unscripted content.
• Familiarity with Formula 1, motorsports, or sports marketing.
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams across multiple U.S. time zones.

Location

This role is open to candidates located in the United States. Candidates may be based on either the East Coast or West Coast, although availability during Eastern Time business hours is preferred to support close collaboration with the project team.

Pay

Hourly Rate: $70—$75 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.