Six Black Pens is looking for a smart, switched-on Senior Copywriter to join our team.

This is a role for an experienced creative thinker and exceptional writer who loves solving hard problems with smart ideas and beautifully crafted words.

You’ll work across some of Australia’s leading brands, partnering with our strategy, creative and client service teams to originate ideas, shape communications and create work that makes complex things clear, compelling and engaging.

From campaign concepts and brand platforms to customer journeys, digital experiences and highly targeted 1:1 communications, you’ll have the prospect to work across the full spectrum of creative and strategic communications.

For the right person, this is an opportunity to take real ownership of the work, build strong relationships with senior clients and play an important role in shaping the creative output of an independent agency that believes great ideas and great craft matter.

About this role

This role blends creative concepting and copywriting with strategic communications and client leadership.

You’ll work across multiple clients and projects simultaneously, often taking the creative lead and partnering with senior creatives, strategists, Account Directors and other specialists across the agency.

Creative copywriting:

- Originate and develop creative concepts and campaign ideas, often working in partnership with a senior designer or Art Director.
- Write and shape outstanding copy across integrated campaigns spanning press, DM, eDM, social, video, scripts, digital, content and collateral.
- Take a robust idea and make sure it remains intact across every channel, audience and execution.
- Present creative concepts and copy confidently to clients, clearly articulating the thinking behind the work.
- Maintain an exceptional standard of writing, editing, tone of voice and craft across everything you touch.

You’ll work primarily with brands across financial services and other complex corporate sectors including wealth, fintech, superannuation, insurance, NFP, energy and healthcare.

Strategic communications:





- Work with our strategy team to turn complex business and customer challenges into clear, effective communications.
- Help define communications structures, frameworks and ecosystems before bringing them to life through copy.
- Work across customer journeys, considering what customers need to know, feel and do at each stage.
- Apply behavioural economics principles and audience insights to influence how information is structured and communicated.
- Contribute to briefs, planning sessions, workshops and creative problem-solving across the agency.

Senior ownership and leadership:

- Take ownership of projects from brief through to final delivery, managing priorities and maintaining quality throughout.
- Build trusted relationships with clients and become a senior creative voice on your accounts.
- Work collaboratively with teams across strategy, creative, content and client service.
- Contribute positively to the development of the broader creative team.

About you

You’re a senior creative copywriter who can think as well as write.

- You know how to find the idea at the heart of a complicated brief and turn it into something simple, distinctive and engaging.
- You’ve mastered the art of writing fresh, strategic and on-brand copy in multiple styles and across multiple channels - from campaign concepts and headlines to DM and eDM, social, digital, scripts, storyboards and long-form content.
- You’re digital-first and social-savvy, curious about new formats and platforms, and interested in how creativity can continue to evolve.
- You’re comfortable presenting concepts and explaining and defending your creative thinking.
- You’re also a great collaborator: friendly, approachable and positive, with the confidence to lead when required and the maturity to listen,



take feedback and work with others to make the work better.

You’ll bring:

- Strong creative concepting and exceptional copywriting skills.
- Excellent attention-to-detail skills.
- The ability to turn complex subject matter into simple, compelling communications.
- Confidence presenting creative work and ideas to clients.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to juggle multiple briefs and deadlines.
- Significant agency experience delivering effective creative communications and copy across a range of media.

Previous experience creating cut-through communications for financial services, investment, insurance or other complex corporate clients is highly desirable.

About us

Six Black Pens is an independent, strategy-led creative communications agency that’s all about smart, effective work. When it comes to helping clients understand business challenges and truly engage their audiences, we get under the hood like few agencies can.

We think big, bold ideas need to be matched by inspired, thoughtful craft. That exploring new territory needs to be guided by the principle of effectiveness. And that, from strategic CVPs and powerful 1:1 comms to stimulating creative and design, understanding how people behave helps ensure messages are always targeted, transparent-cut and compelling.

That’s how we make sure our work works.

Working at Six Black Pens

We offer a collaborative and supportive environment where you’ll work alongside a team of experienced specialists who care about both the thinking and the craft.

We believe excellent work is grounded in great working relationships. We’re strong on work-life balance and offer supported training, volunteering days, annual profit share and regular reward and recognition incentives.

This is a full-time, office-based role with 4 days per week in our waterfront offices in Pyrmont, Sydney and 1 day remote.

If you’re a senior writer who loves a great idea, beautiful craft and the challenge of making complex things compelling, we’d love to hear from you.

Come join us.

No recruiters, thank you.

📌 Senior Copywriter (Sydney)
🏢 Six Black Pens
📍 Sydney