Senior Content Writer
Cantab Research Ltd, United Kingdom
Job Description
Location: Cambridge or London, UK (fully remote considered with occasional travel to Cambridge and London)
Reporting to: Head of Brand and Communications
Role type: We welcome applications for full or part-time working and job-shares too.
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About Speechmatics
Speechmatics?leads the market as an?any-context speech recognition engine for companies to rapidly build innovative applications at scale. As a recognized?pioneer in machine learning voice engineering, Speechmatics enables companies to build?applications that detect and transcribe voice in any context in real-time. Its neural networks consider acoustics, languages,?dialects, multiple speakers, punctuation, capitalization, context and implicit meanings. Check out our happy customers here.
Speechmatics is a rapidly growing, global company with offices in Cambridge, UK, Denver, USA, Chennai, India and Brno, Czech Republic. With ambitious growth plans comes great opportunities that are exciting and progressive. You will be working with some of the smartest minds in the industry, working on cutting-edge projects and deploying the latest techniques to disrupt the market.
If this is a mission you want to contribute to in a passionate way, then we want to hear from you.
About the Job
We’re looking for a talented, enthusiastic Senior Content Writer to join our Content Studio as part of the growing marketing team. Your role is to educate our audience, build brand awareness, generate interest and showcase our expertise. It’s essential you’ve worked in fast-growth technology and you have the ability to articulate technical concepts to technical audiences specifically technical founders, CTOs, CPOs and Developers.
You have a knack for cutting through the noise to catch your audience’s attention. You know how to capture your reader’s interest, understand their challenges and make content to meet their needs. You’ll have an instinct for what good content looks like and how to create, improve and promote it. We’re looking for someone who can turn their hand to all aspects of content writing including marketing content such as case studies and blogs, web content and sales enablement collateral.
You will work closely with the Head of Brand amp; Communications to ensure Speechmatics has a frequent cadence of content published that supports the wider business strategy. You will also be required to work closely with the designer and demand generation team.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Write clear, compelling copy in line with our brand tone of voice across various mediums (ads, blog posts, emails, social media, long form content, infographics, web copy, sales enablement)
- Interpret creative briefs to develop and produce content, and follow through to execution
- Conduct high-quality research and interviews
- Edit and proofread copy to ensure it meets our editorial standards
- Use SEO principles to maximize content reach working closely with demand generation
- Collaborate with the designer on projects
- Work with internal teams to extract technical insights and deliver them to our target audiences in an easy-to-consume manner
- Any other suitable and relevant duties as assigned
Role Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years’ experience in copywriting/content or a related role
- Be a team player and collaborate across the Content Studio
- Knowledge and understanding of online and offline content strategy
- Exceptional writing and research skills
- Versatile writing style to suit multiple marketing channels and sales enablement
- Creativity and ability to think conceptually
- Proven ability to distil and simplify complex technical details into engaging, exciting content
- Experience with content management systems
- Ability to co-ordinate cross-functional teams for support in writing
- Ability to ensure cohesiveness across the business for content whether it be a blog, website or whitepaper
Desirable Qualifications
- Experience in writing content for a fast-growth B2B technology start-up
- Keen to get their hands dirty to learn and understand the product, software terms and concepts
- Have an eye for interactive content and building this out on the website to be exciting
Person Specification
- Comfortable working as a self-starter
- Writes effectively, thinks thematically to organise the docs content logically
- Essential to be able to stick to deadlines
- Strong listening skills and precise attention to detail
- Comfortable working at a fast pace <