Stop, Breathe & Think

Our mission is to help everyone build the emotional strength and confidence to handle whatever comes their way by making emotional wellbeing engaging, accessible, and a part of daily life. Our award-winning apps (SBT and SBT Kids) allow users to check-in with how they're feeling and recommend short activities based on those emotions, including mindfulness, breathing, yoga, acupressure, and guided journaling. With over 4.5 million downloads, and 13M emotional check-ins, our personalized meditation and mindfulness experience is actively used, and recommended by therapists and educators across the country and has been featured by the Today Show, Apple, GQ, Cosmopolitan and more.

Job Brief
We are looking for a full time content writer/editor to create mindfulness, meditation and emotional wellness content for our app, social media and PR channels. The content will alternate between inspiration and education, with the goal to support and delight our users every day. We are looking to develop content that is unique and visually creative, using a combination of audio, text, images, gifs and video. We want to experiment and adapt the content to the different channels and purposes. You would work alongside a small and passionate team and learn a ton in the process! This position reports to our co-founder and president.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside our content team to develop short and long form content for our app, PR and social media channels. Content will include audio meditation scripts, blog posts, press briefings, practical activities, gifs, slideshows, animations, videos etc.

• Communicate with our users in one on one interviews or through surveys to understand their needs, their feedback on existing content and new concepts, and optimize the approaches accordingly

• Research content new themes and ideas. Understand the different platforms for the content distribution and tailor the concepts accordingly

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years as a writer, ideally writing for an 18-34 female audience

• Excellent writing and ability to understand and adapt to our tone of voice (warm, approachable, simple, helpful, lighthearted, never preachy)

• Three - five years of practicing mindfulness and meditation and some experience with teaching groups or classes

• Deep understanding of effective, research backed techniques for specific issues

• Demonstrable understanding of social media platforms

• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively

• Up-to-date with the latest Web trends, techniques, and technologies

• Team player and self starter

• Highly collaborative