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Success Academy Charter Schools
Senior Copywriter, Performance Marketing
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Success Academy Charter Schools is hiring a Senior Copywriter, Performance Marketing. The role involves developing messaging, campaigns, and creative concepts that drive measurable results across digital and other channels. The Senior Copywriter collaborates with marketing and creative teams to produce high-performing, data-driven copy that grows enrollment and engagement.
Highlights
- Develop integrated performance marketing campaigns for applications, event registrations, lead generation, and enrollment.
- Write performance-focused copy across paid social, digital display, landing pages, search, email, SMS, video, direct response, and enrollment marketing materials.
- Create tailored messaging for prospective families, caregivers, community stakeholders, and prospective staff, addressing awareness to conversion stages.
- Analyze campaign performance to optimize messaging and creative through testing and experimentation.
- Collaborate with designers, marketers, strategists, video producers, and analysts to build effective campaigns.
- Required skills include 5–8+ years of copywriting experience, knowledge of paid social, digital advertising, email, customer journeys, audience segmentation, and marketing funnels.
- Preferred experience includes education sector, consumer marketing, mission-driven organizations, partnership with media buyers, and familiarity with Meta, Google, YouTube, TikTok platforms.
- Compensation range from $100,000 to $110,000 USD, not bonus eligible.
- Focus on balancing brand storytelling with conversion objectives, using data to improve creative performance.
- Work aligns with increasing qualified leads, applications, and enrollment while enhancing performance marketing creative quality.
Senior Copywriter, Performance Marketing Full Description
Senior Copywriter, Performance Marketing
New York
Creative Agency
5284461008
Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running a large, fast-growing, and high-performing network of public charter schools takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates, and supporters alike. We are growing fast in New York and expanding to Florida, and we would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through our doors a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.
The Senior Copywriter, Performance Marketing will develop messaging, campaigns, and creative concepts that drive measurable results across digital and other channels.
This role combines strategic thinking, campaign development, audience insights, and performance-focused copywriting. The ideal candidate understands both brand and conversion—someone who can write compelling headlines, develop campaign concepts, optimize messaging based on performance data, and create creative that moves audiences to action.
You'll work closely with performance marketers, designers, strategists, video producers, and analysts to build campaigns that increase awareness, generate demand, and grow enrollment.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
Campaign Development
- Develop integrated performance marketing campaigns that drive applications, event registrations, lead generation, and enrollment.
- Create campaign concepts, messaging platforms, and value propositions tailored to key audiences.
- Partner with creative, marketing, analytics teams and partner teams to translate insights into creative strategy.
- Contribute to testing roadmaps and creative experimentation.
Performance Copywriting
Write high-performing copy across:
- Paid social
- Digital display
- Landing pages
- Search
- Videos
- Email / CRM
- SMS campaigns
- Direct Response and DM Campaigns
- Event promotion campaigns
- Enrollment marketing materials
- Retargeting and nurture campaigns
Audience & Messaging Strategy
- Develop messaging tailored to prospective families, caregivers, and community stakeholders as well as prospective staff.
- Translate educational outcomes and school experiences into compelling, easy-to-understand audience benefits.
- Build differentiated messaging that addresses awareness, consideration, and conversion stages.
- Create audience-specific creative frameworks and testing hypotheses.
Optimization & Testing
- Analyze campaign performance and apply learnings to future creative.
- Develop and iterate on headline, messaging, and creative tests.
- Partner with analysts and marketers to understand conversion drivers.
- Continuously improve performance through experimentation and optimization.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with designers and art directors to create high-performing creative assets.
- Collaborate with performance marketing, enrollment, brand, and communications teams.
- Present creative concepts and campaign recommendations to stakeholders.
Qualifications
Required
- 5–8+ years of copywriting experience including performance marketing, advertising, growth marketing, direct response, and/or digital marketing.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating performance-focused campaigns and measurable business results.
- Exceptional copywriting and editing skills.
- Experience writing for paid social, digital advertising, email, and conversion-focused channels.
- Understanding of customer journeys, audience segmentation, and marketing funnels.
- Ability to balance brand storytelling with conversion objectives.
- Experience using data and testing to improve creative performance.
Preferred
- Experience in education, consumer marketing, mission-driven organizations, or high-growth brands.
- Experience partnering with media buyers, growth marketers, and analytics teams.
- Knowledge of Meta, Google, YouTube, TikTok, and emerging digital advertising platforms.
- Experience developing creative testing frameworks.
What Success Looks Like
- Creates campaigns that increase qualified leads, applications, and enrollment.
- Develops messaging that consistently improves engagement and conversion metrics.
- Produces high-performing creative across digital channels.
- Identifies audience insights that unlock new growth opportunities.
- Elevates the quality of performance marketing creative across the organization.
- Balances long-term brand building with short-term acquisition goals.
Key Traits
- Strategic thinker
- Strong writer and editor
- Performance-minded
- Data curious
- Audience obsessed
- Experimentation oriented
- Collaborative
- Highly organized
- Comfortable moving quickly and testing often
- Highly flexible
- Receptive to feedback and adapts quickly
Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience. This position is not bonus eligible.
Compensation Range
$100,000—$110,000 USD
Success Academy Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.
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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.
Success Academy Charter Schools does not offer employment-based immigration sponsorship.
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