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About the Role

Senior Copywriters at AKQA are essential for strategy, conception, and writing of ideas, products, and services, delivering projects from brief to end user. This freelance role supports a financial services client, focusing on transformative digital product work that impacts millions. This meaningful engagement requires strong writing and sharp conceptual thinking, with a direct impact on real people at pivotal moments. The role calls for someone who embraces AI as a creative collaborator, using it to accelerate and elevate output while applying editorial judgment and human sensibility. This is a freelance role running from June 15 through December 23, 2026.

Responsibilities

Craft exceptional copy for digital products and services, including UX content, interface writing, headlines, and long-form content for web and mobile.
Apply strategic, conceptual, and copywriting skills to deliver purposeful and resonant work.
Develop compelling copy that is clear, human, and appropriate for a highly regulated financial services context without sacrificing creativity or craft.
Write and organize copy at the component level, understanding how copy lives inside CMS-driven page structures.
Apply or develop familiarity with AEO and GEO writing principles, crafting content optimized for discoverability across AI-driven search and answer engines.
Contribute to content operations deliverables beyond copy output, including content governance guidelines, workflow documentation, editorial frameworks, and agent prompts and playbooks.
Collaborate closely with design, UX, strategy, and product teams to ensure copy and experience work in concert, with hands-on work directly within Figma.
Work within sprint-based delivery cadences, committing to and meeting copy milestones with discipline and velocity in an agile product development environment.
Engage directly with client stakeholders professionally and collaboratively, including navigating review cycles involving brand, legal, and compliance partners.
Approach every brief with curiosity and a desire to find the most distinctive and effective solution.
Rigorously proofread and quality-check all work before delivery.

Requirements

5+ years of experience writing copy for digital products and services, with a compelling portfolio demonstrating range, craft, and conceptual thinking.
An AI-forward working style, using AI tools as a creative collaborator to generate, refine, and accelerate work, with strong taste and judgment.
Experience in financial services, insurance, healthcare, or another regulated industry is strongly preferred, understanding compliance and writing legally sound, human copy.
A portfolio reflecting audience-centric thinking, with work organized around life moments, goals, and user needs.
A systems thinker with contributions to content templates, governance documentation, or editorial process design, understanding content operations at scale.
Experience writing across UX content, interface copy, campaign concepting, and long-form digital content.
Strong grasp of tone and the ability to adapt voice appropriately across audiences and contexts.
Proficiency in Figma is required, comfortable working directly within design files as part of the copy and content workflow.
Excellent writing, grammar, and proofreading skills.
Comfortable committing to sprint timelines and delivering with consistency in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Collaborative, open to feedback, and motivated by producing work that genuinely serves users.
A drive to push boundaries and craft the best ideas of their kind.

Skills

Copywriting
Strategic thinking
Conceptual thinking
UX content
Interface writing
Headline writing
Long-form content
AEO writing principles
GEO writing principles
Content governance
Workflow documentation
Editorial frameworks
Agent prompts and playbooks
Figma
Agile methodologies
Proofreading
AI tools
Tone adaptation
Grammar

Location

New York City

Work Type

Freelance
Full-time (40 hours/week)
Hybrid
June 15, 2026 through December 23, 2026

Experience Level

5+ years of experience
Senior level

Salary/Compensations

3,600 to 4,500 USD weekly compensation

About the Company

AKQA (part of WPP) believes in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products, and services, designing adaptive digital services and applications.
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands, uniting media intelligence, data solutions, creativity, production, transformative enterprise solutions, and expert strategic counsel.

Equal Opportunity

AKQA is an equal opportunity employer, considering applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics.
AKQA is committed to fostering a culture of respect where everyone belongs and has equal opportunities to progress in their careers.