Strategic Copywriter in San Francisco, California at Dakotomy

Dakotomy is a strategy, creative, and development agency for venture capital firms and the technology companies they back. We work with founders and investors at the moments that define a company: formation, coming out of stealth, repositioning, and announcing a raise. Our clients range from early-stage AI and enterprise software companies to the VC firms that fund them.

We treat language as infrastructure. The words a company uses to describe itself decide whether the market understands it, believes it, and remembers it. Our work starts with the headline: what is the one thing this company needs the market to know? Then we build out from there, making the story legible and credible to the people who matter most.

We are looking for a Strategic Copywriter to work directly with our Managing Partner & Strategy Director who leads the messaging function. You will translate high-level positioning into compelling brand messaging and precise, tangible product language for enterprise buyers, limited partners, and investors.

Brand voices change from client to client. Some are playful, some are restrained. But the audience is consistent. We speak to serious business professionals who make large decisions carefully. You will know how to bring energy and personality at the brand level while staying rigorous, technical, and clear where it counts.

The role is a contract, project-based position start with the potential to grow into a consistent, 3/4 time contract role that acts as an integral part of our team.

• Turn positioning strategy into messaging frameworks, website copy, pitch decks, launch announcements, and fundraise narratives.
• Learn complex AI and technical products quickly, then articulate what matters most to an enterprise buyer.
• Write PR-driven language for key moments such as stealth launches, rebrands, and Series A announcements, starting from the headline and working down.
• Research how competitors and the broader market are speaking, and make sure our clients sound distinct.
• Contribute to strategy sessions and bring your own point of view to the work.
• Present your work to our clients articulately and with authority.
• Propose new ways to support clients beyond the brief.
• Manage your own deadlines and workload across 3-5 engagements at once.
• Collaborate with design to communicate product benefits and features in product interface mockups.

• A strategic thinker who can move between big-picture positioning and line-level copy.
• Technically curious. You enjoy understanding how a product works and why it matters.
• Optimistic. You bring a positive outlook to the work and to the people around you.
• Professional and pragmatic, but genuinely excited by the work and able to have fun with it.
• Entrepreneurial and self-starting. You spot opportunities and act on them. We have a management team, but we hire people who own their work and deliver without being chased.
• Efficient. You respect time and budgets, and you find the shortest path to great work.
• Driven by founders. You care about helping founders get into the market and succeed there.
• Inquisitive. You dig for human insights about the audience, the ones that make the language land and the product connect.
• Ego-free. None of us have one, and we value that deeply.
• Flexible. Early-stage companies pivot, and so do we. You can move quickly when things change.
• Open to feedback from every direction. We are an egalitarian team. Good ideas come from everyone, and every perspective here adds value.

• 5+ years of relevant writing experience, ideally at a senior level.
• Enterprise experience (strongly preferred): writing for enterprise software, selling to enterprise buyers, or working inside an enterprise tech company.
• Bonus: familiarity with venture capital and early-stage startups, from formation through early rounds.
• A strategic portfolio that shows reasoning, not just polished copy.
• Any background welcome. We care more about how you think and write than where you came from. Career changers are encouraged to apply.