About This Role
This role involves ensuring the high quality of marketing and advertising materials across digital, video, and print formats. The Proofreader collaborates with creative and content leads, writers, and designers, focusing on accuracy in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style, and verifying that all requested changes are implemented correctly. The role is central to coordinating the proofing process and maintaining quality standards within the creative team.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with creative and content leads, writers, and designers to ensure high-quality digital, video, and print advertising that supports marketing objectives
- Proofread marketing and advertising materials to ensure the quality of written content
- Identify and correct errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style, as well as verify that stakeholder-requested changes have been completed accurately
- Coordinate the robust four-round proofing process (two rounds of internal review + two rounds of stakeholder review)
- Send proofs to stakeholders for review and approval
- Facilitate simple stakeholder-requested changes and coordinate with creative and content leads on more complex changes
- Monitor the statuses of proofs and communicate what actions are ready to be taken by the creative team
- Follow up with stakeholders on proofs to ensure projects stay on track
- Complete quality work on time and with attention to detail
- Serve as the point of contact for onboarding new people into the creative team and coach existing team members on quality standards
Requirements
- Attention to detail, including comparing proof versions to ensure changes have been made accurately
- Ability to stay organized and focused on deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Be a self-starter who can take direction and stay motivated to execute under minimal supervision
- Make sound decisions based on a variety of data points
- Solid communication skills with the ability to coordinate with teammates and stakeholders to resolve impediments and seek out missing information
- Expertise in Microsoft Word
- Familiarity with Adobe InDesign and other creative and business software
- Speak the language of the various applications of production, including print and digital advertising, marketing, photography, illustration, and video production
- 4+ years of copyediting or proofreading experience in marketing or advertising
- Multitask and actively manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously
- Be a quick learner and get up to speed quickly on the industry, solutions and products, and various software tools for online project management, team communication, etc.
