What if you could help millions of people use a tool that has a real impact on their everyday life? That’s the opportunity with Envision’s small but passionate team. We empower people who are blind or have low vision to access everyday visual information for themselves. Because it isn’t just information. It’s knowledge, independence, and possibility.
The Product
Envision products articulate visual information into speech. The Envision App is free for everyone — It uses your smartphone’s camera to speak out written information, describes surroundings and objects, and even tells you who’s nearby. Excelling in all kinds of text and object recognition, Envision can read the text in over 60 languages. Be it handwritten notes, text on food packages, or the pages of an entire book.
Our Envision Glasses meanwhile brings our award-winning software to smart glasses, enabling the unprecedented experience of unobtrusive access to the visual world. With features ranging from real-time text recognition, to voice controls and even hands-free video calling, Envision Glasses open the door for the future of wearable assistive technology.
The Role
We are looking for a creative and ambitious Communications Specialist to join our team!
As Envision’s Communication Specialist, you get to share our mission and news with the world, crafting, pitching and placing stories with influencers and media. By taking the lead on writing sales and marketing copy, you will help fuel our communications, marketing and community channels and platforms ensuring our content is on message, everywhere!
If you’re inspired by smart tech, good people and our life-changing mission, and want to we would love to hear from you.
What you will do:
Create written content for news releases, feature articles, interviews and product reviews. - Photo and video skills would be a bonus.
Pitch and arrange news stories, interviews, speaking opportunities and events to target media and other influencers (bloggers, podcasters, vlogs etc).
Manage enquiries from, and build long-term relationships with media, influencers and other stakeholders.
Create engaging and persuasive copy for publication in product and across multiple marketing and communication channels and materials.
Continually raise the bar on creativity, writing fresh copy that connects with the desired audience and drives action
Comfortably vary voice, style, and other characteristics demanded by target audience, understanding their particular communication needs and preferences, particularly those who are visually impaired or blind
Work closely with internal teams to creatively collaborate at every stage of the creative process.
Stay updated on appropriate style guidelines and brand voice for consistency in messaging
Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with a high-volume workload often requiring short turnaround time
What are we looking for:
Three - five years of relevant experience, preferably writing for consumer technology products, applications or services (assistive technologies would be a bonus)!
Proven experience and knowledge in creating, pitching stories, feature topics and speaker ideas
Excellent English writing and editing skills with demonstrated experience in conceptual writing in marketing and advertising, Web, product, brand messaging and promotional copy
Experience in creating a copy of marketing, advertising and PR campaigns, social media posts and sales collateral.
Experience in web design and content production is a big plus
Photo and video-editing skills
Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
Ability to think strategically and conceptualize creatively
Ability to work cross-functionally and with a fast-paced team
Ability to manage and own multiple projects and deadlines
MA in journalism, public relations or communications.
Job Type: Full-time, remote or hybrid working from our head office in Den Haag.
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How to Apply
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