Recruiting: Junior Creative Copywriter – Leeds

Job Title: Junior Creative Copywriter, Leeds.

Location: Hybrid — 2 days in the Leeds office, 3 remote.

Type: Full-time.

Experience: Up to 2 years. This is for someone starting out but with some industry experience.

About Sharp

Seventeen years ago, we decided the industry had it backwards. Agencies guess. Consultancies overthink. We built something in between: a brand consultancy that works with the rigour of strategy, delivers with the energy of an agency, and solves unsolvable challenges using Sharp Co-Create® — a platform we’ve spent nearly two decades building and proving for global and local brands.

Sharp is privately owned by three partners who built this business on the belief that work should be a force for good, for our clients and for the people who do it. Our values: Courage, Ownership, Curiosity, Kindness aren’t a poster on the wall. They’re how we hire, how we work, and how we hold each other to account. It’s why everyone gets a paid Volunteer Day: time back to put something into the causes that matter to us and AI Training: ensuring we’re leading clients through the new world. Our standards are high, and we don’t apologise for that.

Who You Are

You’re not interested in just filling a blank page with words. You want to write things that actually stick. You have an instinct for what works, a sharp eye for detail, and an obsession with the small nuances that turn decent copy into something unforgettable.

You’re an intelligent, curious, and deeply creative Junior Copywriter with up to 2 years of experience. Someone who balances big-picture storytelling with analytical precision, treating copy as both an art and a measurable tool for impact.

You want mentors who push you, briefs that stretch you, and a portfolio that gets sharper every year you’re here.

You embody our Be the Sunshine motto by bringing a dose of joy and a creative spark to work every day.

If that’s you, keep reading.

The Role

Copywriting: Develop original conceptual ideas and compelling copy for all channels.

Consumer Insights: Understand how people consume content and how you can nudge behaviour.

Industry Agnostic: Excitement to work across sectors and audience types, from fashion to pharma, pet owners to business leaders.

Craft: Deliberate over the detail.

Thirsty: You are interested in AI and keen to explore GEO and AEO.

Collaboration: Work as a creative team with designers and art directors to shape work that’s impossible to ignore. Collab with strategy, client services and new business to understand the brief and deliver work that works.

Stay Sharp: Track trends, audience shifts and platform updates. Apply fresh thinking to every brief.

What We Need

• Degree or equivalent in Copywriting, Marketing Communications or a related field
• Up to 2 years’ relevant experience in a copywriting role 
• A portfolio that proves you’ve got it
• Someone who takes initiative and loves to collaborate
• The ability to jump from one project to the next
• Good proofreading skills
• Appetite for knowledge and mentorship

What You Get

• Personal Growth Budget
• Proprietary AI Training
• Volunteer Day
• 4pm finish on Fridays
• Closed over Christmas
• Plenty of snacks
• An office in the heart of Leeds, rooftop terrace with the big views over the city
• Annual company conference, this year in a European city

How to Apply

Send your CV and examples of work, plus a couple of lines on why Sharp, to Head of Copy, Grace McMahon: grace@thesharpagency.co.uk

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