Sr. Copywriter

One of The Sage Group’s clients, is seeking a Sr Copywriter experienced at envisioning high-level concepts and delivering new categories to market, especially in complex and challenging industries and products. The client is cultivating a more efficient, more humane, and more future-friendly way to grow delicious, high-quality meat for food lovers everywhere.

Duration: 6 months with strong contract to hire potential

Location:

Hybrid to Emeryville CA, lots of flexibility

Compensation: $75-90hr

Build the Brand That Defines the Future of Food. Some brands sell products—some shape culture. A rare few define entirely new categories. Client is doing the latter. We’re creating real meat, cultivated directly from animal cells. The science is a breakthrough. The opportunity is historic. The brand that leads this moment will shape how the world understands food for decades. We’re looking for a Senior Writer operating at the Creative Director altitude.

Someone who has helped build iconic, world-class brands and is ready to build one from the inside. This is not a maintenance role. This is a build-the-standard, build-the-team, build-the-engine role. Over time, this position evolves into the Creative Director role, leading all in-house brand and marketing creative.

• Architect and evolve the client’s brand voice across every consumer touchpoint
• Make complex science feel simple, human, and culturally inevitable
• Ensure world-class craft across website, social, campaigns, retail, packaging, experiential, and sales materials
• Develop brand platforms and campaign concepts designed for modern media ecosystems
• Create work built for cultural conversation, community engagement, and commercial impact
• Oversee the creative team’s day-to-day output across internal hires
• Direct and manage external agencies, production partners, and freelancers
• Provide clear creative direction, feedback, and standards
• Ensure cohesion, consistency, and excellence across all brand and marketing work

• Design a creative system built for today’s media landscape, not yesterday’s org chart
• Integrate AI meaningfully into ideation, iteration, and production workflows
• Experiment with training AI tools to extend and protect the brand voice
• Establish creative principles, processes, and quality benchmarks
• Shape team structure and hiring roadmap
• Ultimately lead all brand and marketing creative internally

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, English, Advertising, or related field preferred.

• 8–12+ years building high-impact consumer brands
• Experience at world-class brands or top-tier agencies where standards are uncompromising
• Proven leader of internal teams, agencies, and freelance creatives
• Equally strong in big ideas and executional rigor
• Deeply fluent in modern media
• Curious and hands-on with AI as a creative multiplier
• Obsessed with craft, clarity, and cultural relevance
• Motivated to build — not inherit — a creative organization