Sr. Copy Director
Interview Stages
| Stage | Interviewer(s) | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Recruiter Screen | [Recruiter Name] | 30 min |
| Hiring Manager Screen | [Hiring Manager Name] | 45 min |
| Portfolio Review | All Hiring Team | 60 min |
| Round 2: PM | [PM Interviewer] | 45 min |
| Round 2: Designer | [Designer Interviewer] | 45 min |
| Round 2: Engineer | [Engineering Interviewer] | 45 min |
| Final/Culture Round | Executive or Culture Team Member | 30 min |
Recruiter Screen
Focus Areas: Narrative Leadership, Strategic Vision, Executive Readiness
- What kinds of storytelling or brand work are you most proud of leading?
- What's your approach to building trust with creative, product, and marketing partners?
- How do you scale your impact across teams and initiatives?
Hiring Manager Screen
Focus Areas: Vision Ownership, Systems Building, Team Development
- Walk me through a large-scale initiative where you led the narrative direction.
- How do you approach building or evolving a voice system across multiple products or channels?
- What's your philosophy on mentoring senior or lead writers?
Portfolio Review
Focus Areas: Vision, Cohesion, Influence
The candidate should walk through 2–3 flagship projects showing end-to-end leadership across campaigns, product surfaces, or brand systems. Look for voice development, stakeholder alignment, and strategic storytelling across surfaces.
Round 2 Interviews
PM Interview
Focus Areas: Cross-Functional Alignment, Messaging Strategy, Influence
- How do you partner with product leadership to shape voice and narrative at the roadmap level?
- Tell me about a time you helped reframe a product's value or feature through language.
- How do you align product, brand, and user needs in your content direction?
- What role do you play in planning cycles or go-to-market launches?
Designer Interview
Focus Areas: Creative Direction, Systems Thinking, Shared Ownership
- How do you define or evolve a cross-disciplinary creative vision?
- Share a time you worked with visual design, brand, or motion to build cohesive storytelling.
- How do you uphold content quality while empowering others to contribute to the voice?
- What role do you play in critiques, rituals, and creative reviews?
Engineer Interview
Focus Areas: Content Systems, Modularity, Voice Integrity
- Tell me about a time you collaborated on a platform or system to ensure voice was preserved at scale.
- How do you ensure your narrative direction holds up across technical constraints and platform limitations?
- What's your approach to componentized or string-based content systems?
- How do you evaluate writing in production to ensure quality?
Final/Culture Round
Focus Areas: Creative Legacy, Team Influence, Vision
- What kind of writing culture do you build — and how?
- Tell me about a time you helped a team find clarity in ambiguity.
- What are your values as a creative leader?
- What's the long-term narrative or legacy you want to help build here?