Who We Are
Our romantic relationship with our partner is one of the most important parts of our lives - it has an enormous impact on our happiness, our mental health, and the lives of our children. Paired is a user-centric mobile app with a clear mission to improve the happiness of couple relationships.
We believe there’s an opportunity to help couples stay connected via a fun, evidence-based, and affordable mobile app. We launched Paired in October 2020 and have won several awards since then, including being named one of Google’s Best Apps of 2020 and Apple App of the Day in November 2021. Our app is now used by more than 250,000 people a day and we’re poised to accelerate our growth, having closed an additional $4 million in funding in 2021.
About The Role
This is an amazing opportunity for a friendly, enthusiastic and digitally-savvy content writer to join our team to create quality content for our audience of couples.
You’ll be responsible for writing and producing a wide-range of relationship and sex content for Paired users. From daily couple questions and quizzes to video scripts and web articles, you’ll be responsible for writing new and timely content, working closely with our in-house experts and content editors to ensure accurate, research-backed and thought-provoking copy.
This is a really exciting opportunity to join a fantastic content team. This role is best suited to someone who is keen to apply their creative writing skills to a fast-growing business with lots of potential for future growth.
What Your Role Encompasses
- Write engaging and informative questions, quizzes, video scripts, articles, games and relationship tips for the Paired app and website
- Contribute well-thought-out ideas for content calendar and initiatives based on trends, user insights and performance objectives
- Deliver high-quality work that is fact-checked and accurate, with minimal revisions required
- Makes editorial decisions based on analytical data with guidance from our in-house relationship expert and content editors
- Acts as a role model for high-quality, user-focused and inclusive content writing.
- Provides ideas and feedback on cross-department content initiatives
Requirements
- Fluency in English and strong writing skills
- Exhibits strong interest in relationship science theory and a genuine passion for helping couples to improve their relationships
- Ability to produce excellent copy with attention to detail under tight deadlines
- Experience in professional copywriting, creative writing or journalistic writing
- Receives feedback well and implements learnings to improve on ideas
- Comfortable working on a range of different writing formats e.g. informative questions, quizzes, video scripts, articles, games and paid ad support
- Comfortable writing sex and relationship content
- A valid UK or European working permit or passport (no sponsorship requirements)
Benefits
What We Offer
- An innovative and collaborative environment with diversity of opinion at its core (we are a relationship app after all!)
- Fully remote work setup from anywhere in Europe (& time zone GMT±1)
- 3x company offsites every year (last ones were in Malaga, Florence, Lisbon and Tirana...)
- Subsidised co-working space
- 25 days annual leave (+public holidays)
- Yearly salary between £40K-45k / €45K-52K
- Yearly learning budget of £1,000 / €1,150
- Significant stock options
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Modern tech setup: Hygraph, Notion, Slack, G-Suite, ...
- Opportunity to help millions of people with their relationship
Diversity & Inclusion at Paired
- Our core value is championing relationships. Our app was built to serve all couples regardless of culture, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity
- We strive to create an inclusive environment where unique perspectives are encouraged, as we firmly believe that diversity enhances our company, culture and product. We’re looking for people from a range of different backgrounds across age, disability, gender and gender re-assignment, relationship status, sexual orientation, parenthood and pregnancy, race or nationality, and/or religion or belief
- We regularly review our hiring processes, materials and pipeline to ensure they are accessible and free of bias, offering equal opportunity to underrepresented groups. We are also always learning. We maintain open minds and welcome feedback on how we can improve, no matter where it comes from
And one last thing…
Excited by our business but not sure if you meet the job criteria? Not to worry! If you feel you have that special something and could contribute to our mission, get in touch anyway. We are always looking to add great people and we know that you are more than your CV. We would encourage you to apply regardless as we don’t believe that ticking off a list of skills is the only thing that makes a great candidate.