Junior Copywriter

  • Full-time

Company Description

Lyst is a technology platform that revolutionises the way people shop for fashion. We connect millions of consumers globally with the world’s leading fashion designers and stores, giving them a simpler, more engaging and more effective shopping experience. Lyst has grown over 300% every year since launch in 2011 and has raised over $60M from top-tier investors including Accel, DFJ, Balderton and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors and Oscar de la Renta.

Job Description

Lyst is looking for a junior fashion copywriter to join the Organic Acquisition team. As part of your role, you’ll be tasked with ensuring that the spelling, grammar and tone of voice is correct for all product descriptions. 

 Responsibilities:

  • Subbing exceptional, customer-focused product descriptions across a large number of product ranges, ensuring every description follows the Lyst tone of voice and style guide.
  • Proactively seeking out new areas of the website which need updating, and then working to amend and upload content to the website.
  • Working closely with the copy team and internal teams to scale our content production.
  • Proofreading content across our shop and trend pages.

Qualifications

  • Excellent written English, including spelling, punctuation and grammar.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
  • Creative and imaginative.
  • An understanding of SEO and can write copy which will help increase natural search rankings.
  • Ability to demonstrate great organisational and project management skills.
  • The ability to proofread and edit large volumes of content, with consistent high quality.

Additional Information

You will be working with a passionate and expert team that loves to push the boundaries of both the fashion e-commerce space and Organic performance. You will be challenged, supported and have the opportunity to learn a lot. You will work in a fast paced, autonomous environment with like minded people who are passionate about what they do.

We care deeply about career development and helping our industry become a more inclusive and diverse place and we work hard to lead by example. Our workplace is dynamic, diverse and highly collaborative. You will join a company with:

  • A world class team of engineers and data scientists
  • 5M duplicated products detected and merged using product image features (http://www.slideshare.net/ejlbell/fashion-productdeduplication)
  • 72k crowd-sourced labels generated per day
  • 40k product gender classifications per day via deep learning
  • 500k recommended products per day
  • our internal analytics system collects 100M data points/day

...and a team that… 

  • Believes Best Idea wins, not the loudest voice in the room or the most senior
  • loves to work on lots of open source projects - https://github.com/lyst and https://github.com/SSAW 
  • Gets invited to talk at great events all over the world
and enjoy our great benefits:


  • Training and conference budget
  • A clothing allowance
  • Internal training opportunities (want to learn Python, or improve your presentation skills?)
  • Desk beer Fridays
  • A well stocked kitchen and fridge
  • Things that keep you happy and healthy: Yoga in the office regularly, football teams, netball teams, board game nights and burger eating clubs.