Job Description
Proofreader
Location: Hybrid in Sunnyvale, CA (roughly 3 days/week onsite)
Duration: 3 months - ongoing / potential to convert
Pay Rate: $26-31.25/hr+ depending on experience (W2 and benefit options)
The Planet Group is seeking a Proofreader to join our well-known advertising client on a 3-month contract. This is a full-time, 40 hours per week position and will work a hybrid schedule out of their Sunnyvale office.
Proofreader Responsibilities:
- Proofread a high volume of marketing materials and brand communications
- Work closely with editors and the legal, production, and project marketing teams to ensure accuracy and integrity across all deliverables
- Ensure brand quality and consistency across thousands of print and digital mechanicals distributed to global partners
- Proofread marketing collateral, such as comparison signs, collections signs, product pages, features pages, and marketing guides
- Maintain the highest level of quality and confidentiality
Proofreader Qualifications:
- BA or BS degree in English, Journalism, or the equivalent
- A minimum of 4 years’ experience in editing, copyediting, and/or proofreading marketing and technical materials at a publication, design firm, corporate marketing communications department, or ad agency, preferably for a creative or consumer brand
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to work diplomatically in a dynamic, confidential studio environment
- Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to focus, prioritize, and pivot in a fast-paced environment
- Experience working for global brands
- An understanding of the production process and of brand channel, retail, interactive, and packaging practices
- Strong organizational and time management skills to handle concurrent projects, track milestones, manage active deadlines, advance deliverables, and find solutions to daily challenges
- Able to navigate complex processes and tools, including a specialized ticketing system to edit and route deliverables
- Flexible during high-volume periods (longer hours and weekends) and able to adapt and assimilate immediately if called on to work for a few hours within an environment of constant change, simultaneous projects, and shifting priorities and timelines
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop, and iWork
- Dedicated to brand excellence and to maintaining the highest level of quality and confidentiality