Copywriter
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, 43224, USA
Listed on 2026-10-09
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Marketing / Advertising / PR
Content Writer / Copywriter, Digital Marketing
From bid to build to paid. From the office to the field to the entire company. Sledge is Construction AI.Sledge is the agentic, AI-native operating system for construction, handling the busywork of running a construction business so builders can spend more time building and less time on paperwork. Built for subcontractors and small to mid-size general contractors, Sledge is already live with a growing group of beta users.
You'd be joining early, with real room to shape the brand from the ground up.
Sledge is hiring a Copywriter to own how Sledge sounds and how it's positioned, across everything with text on it. This role reports to the marketing team. That means the website, the product, marketing, sales, company materials, PR, blogs, news articles, press, outreach, comms, and newsletters. Sledge has a specific voice: plain-spoken, confident, and direct, the way a foreman talks at the end of the day.
Every line should pass the Mike test. Would a 45-year-old general contractor say this out loud to another contractor over a beer? If not, it gets rewritten. We want someone who writes it themselves, not someone who prompts a generator. No AI-generated copy. If your samples read like they came out of ChatGPT, this role isn't a fit.
Write and edit blog posts, social media captions, and other creative content
Own and evolve Sledge's brand voice, positioning, and content guidelines
Write copy across the website, product, marketing, sales, and company materials
Write PR materials, press releases, and news articles
Write outreach, comms, and newsletters
Keep Sledge's voice consistent everywhere it shows up, in sentence case, no em dashes, no jargon
Turn technical product details into plain, concrete language a contractor would actually useWork closely with the marketing and founding team on a fast moving launch timeline
A strong portfolio of writing you wrote yourself, ideally web, product, or marketing copyA sharp editing eye and a short-sentence, one-idea-at-a-time instinct
Comfortable adapting tone across a website, a product screen, and a social post in the same day Comfortable moving at startup speed, taking a brief and running with it Bonus: experience writing for a trades, construction, or blue-collar audience
Fully remote, work from anywhere in the world
Flexible hours, work when you're most productive
Direct access to the marketing and founding team, no layers of management
Shape Sledge's voice from the ground up
Sledge is an equal opportunity employer. Sledge welcomes applicants of every background and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status.
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