UK Copywriter

About Ooni

We’re very hot. Specifically, 500℃ hot. That’s the perfect temperature for cooking world-class pizza in sixty seconds, which Ooni ovens can do in about 15 minutes. 

When we launched in 2012, we created a category by offering a small, fast, and accessible wood-fired pizza oven that gave ordinary people the critical missing tool to make great pizza at home. 

Now, we’re on fire. Huge growth, global distribution, an ever-expanding product portfolio that goes well beyond ovens, and a growing community of Ooni lovers around the world who sing our praises while cooking increasingly epic pizza. We’re at that perfect stage of growth: still small enough for you to make a real difference, but big enough to have resources to do amazing things. 

About the job

We’re looking for a wordsmith to take the brand to the next level.

An experienced copywriter forming part of our Creative team, you’ll be Ooni’s go-to copywriter for all UK English content, reporting to our Senior Copywriter in the US. 

You’ll be charged with bringing the brand voice and tone to life across all of our communication platforms, writing original copy and adapting copy from American English as necessary. 

The United States is the largest of our markets, hence the default style, but Ooni began and is headquartered in Scotland and we tailor our messaging for each market. 

For this position, it’s critical that you’ve got broad experience in writing and editing copy in British English, including a practical understanding of national and regional slang, idioms, and customs. If you have further mastery of distinctions between Australian and British English, that’s a huge plus.

Responsibilities

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• Stewardship of the Ooni voice and tone, overseeing its consistent application in all media.
  
• Writing, writing, writing. Web copy, email, ad copy, packaging, the occasional social post, product descriptions, video scripts, blogs, recipes, job specs, etc. Lots of writing. This is, after all, a copywriting job.
  
• Proofreading, copy editing, and improving written work from other people on the team, including everything listed in the previous bullet point. 
  
• Collaborating across teams to develop campaign plans and other ideas to spread the gospel of great pizza throughout the world. 
  
• Filling the company’s annual tax returns in triplicate in every market in which we do business. Kidding. Just wanted to make sure you read the entire spec. Details matter!
  
• Delivering consistently high-quality work on deadlines. 
  
• Finding interesting and occasionally funny ways to describe pizza without resorting to puns. Pizza puns in your cover letter will be an automatic DQ. (Tough crowd.) 
  

Requirements

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• A portfolio of work showing a range of effective and creative copy (that you wrote, of course) across a variety of media. This could include advertising, email, journalism, social media, and anything else you feel is relevant to Ooni.
  
• Experience bringing a brand’s voice and tone guidelines to life.
  
• Strong grammar, punctuation, and usage chops in both UK and US English (AU and CA doesn’t hurt, either).
  
• Ability to write across multiple media types: video scripts, press ads, blog posts, packaging materials, etc.
  
• Knowledge of the food industry and enthusiasm for learning ever more about it.
  
• Experience working as part of a global marketing team.
  
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
  
• Self-starter mentality and the ability to deliver quality writing in various formats without close supervision.
  
• A ‘team-first’ mentality.
  
• Shared values: passion, rigor, innovation, ambition, and kindness. These are more than just words to us, and they’re the main reason Ooni is so special.
  
• LOVE pizza. Like, genuinely obsess about it. 
  

The Company:

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• Go to YouTube and search “We are Ooni”. That video pretty much says it all
  

Benefits

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• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
  

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• £500 Passion Fund every year to spend on your passion – whatever that may be.
  
• £1000 to spend on Ooni products each year, plus 50% discount on all other Ooni stuff
  

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• 35 days paid holiday per year
  
• 5 weeks paid sabbatical (added onto your usual holidays) once you’ve been with us for 5 years
  
• Employee Assistance Programme – our people are at the heart of everything we do, so if you’re happy, we’re happy
  
• Great pizza every single day if you want it. Yep. Every single day. And we’ll teach you to become a pizza pro
  

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• Raising money for charity. We’re all about giving back… and having lots of fun in the process! That’s why we offer two paid days to volunteer each year.
  

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• Flexible working
  

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