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Антон Литвинов
Антон Литвинов Founder, AI Resume Master
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Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

A copywriter is hired on the portfolio and kept on the results, so the resume has to serve both. Creative directors open the book first, which means the link in your header has to work and the first three pieces have to be your strongest. Then they read for the working parts: whether you can take a brief, hold a brand voice that is not your own, write for a specific surface - an ad, a landing page, a checkout, a subject line - and whether your copy has ever been measured against a control. That last part is what separates a copywriter from a content writer, who produces longer editorial work judged on traffic and engagement rather than a test result. Below is a full sample with campaign work, conversion numbers and the difference between an agency version and a brand-side version of the same career.

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Copywriter resume sample

What a creative director and a marketing lead both need on one page: the portfolio link, the surfaces you write, the brands and briefs you have worked to, and what the copy did.

Portfolio link above the fold

One URL, public, loading fast, with the strongest campaign first. Nothing else on a copywriter resume is read before the book, so nothing should sit above it.

Surfaces, not just 'copy'

Paid social, search ads, landing pages, lifecycle email, packaging, in-product microcopy. Name the surfaces you write, because hiring for them is specific.

Test results where they exist

Control, variant, metric, lift, and whether the result held. A copywriter who can say 'my headline lost and here is what we learned' is more employable than one whose every line won.

ATS friendly

Single column, standard headings, no photo, no image-based layout. Keep the art direction in the portfolio - a designed resume PDF is the most common reason strong writers get filtered.

Sample resume text

Use it as a reference: keep the structure and wording, put in your own facts and numbers.

Marisol Vega

Copywriter (Conversion and Campaign)
Los Angeles, CA
marisol.vega@example.com
(213) 555-0184
linkedin.com/in/example

Profile

Copywriter with 6 years across agency and brand side in DTC beauty and fintech. Writes paid social, landing pages and lifecycle email against briefs, and has run 40+ headline and offer tests in VWO and Klaviyo, including a checkout rewrite that lifted completion 11% and held over two quarters. Wrote the tone of voice guide now used by a 30-person marketing team. Portfolio linked.

Experience

Copywriter2023 - present

Solvent Skin Co. (DTC skincare), Los Angeles, CA

  • Rewrote the checkout flow around the three objections found in support tickets, lifting completion rate 11% against control over a 6-week VWO test that held through two quarters
  • Wrote and tested 40+ paid social variants across Meta and TikTok, with the winning hook cutting cost per acquisition 19% on the brand's highest-spend product line
  • Rebuilt the welcome and abandoned-cart email flows in Klaviyo, raising flow-attributed revenue per recipient by 34% over the previous sequences
  • Authored the brand tone of voice guide and copy library now used by 30 people across marketing, product and customer support
Copywriter2021 - 2023

Halliwell & Crane (creative agency), Los Angeles, CA

  • Wrote for 11 client brands across fintech, beverage and retail, handling 6 to 9 briefs a month with an art director partner
  • Concepted and wrote a three-market launch campaign for a fintech client, presenting three routes and shipping the one the client's research validated
  • Passed copy through financial compliance review on every fintech brief, with no campaign delayed by a copy revision in 18 months
Junior Copywriter2019 - 2021

Caldera Creative, San Diego, CA

  • Wrote paid social, display and email copy for 5 small business accounts, producing 25 to 40 ad variants a month
  • Built the agency's first swipe file and test log, which gave the team a record of which hooks had already failed

Education

San Diego State University2015 - 2019

B.A. Advertising

Skills

Conversion copy: landing pages, checkout, pricingPaid social and search ad copyLifecycle email and SMS sequencesCampaign concepting from a briefBrand voice and tone guidesA/B testing in VWO and KlaviyoUX writing and product microcopyFigma and WebflowCustomer research and review miningLegal and compliance review workflows

Certifications

  • Klaviyo Product certification - 2024
  • Google Analytics certification, Google Skillshop - 2023
  • HubSpot Academy, Email Marketing certification - 2022

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Profile

Copywriter profile summary

Four lines: years writing, the categories you know, the surfaces you write for, and one measured result. If you have worked both agency and brand side, say so here - teams hire for one or the other and the distinction changes how they read everything below.

If your experience is mostly unmeasured, lead with craft and range instead of inventing numbers: campaigns shipped, brands whose voice you held, the briefs you worked to, and a portfolio that shows you can do more than one register.

WeakCreative copywriter with a flair for words and a passion for big ideas. Skilled at writing compelling copy that grabs attention and drives engagement across all channels.
StrongCopywriter with 6 years across agency and brand side in DTC beauty and fintech. Writes paid social, landing pages and lifecycle email against briefs, and has run 40+ headline and offer tests in VWO and Klaviyo - a checkout rewrite lifted completion 11% and held over two quarters. Holds brand voice from a tone guide, and wrote the one now used by a 30-person marketing team.
Tip
Attribute honestly. 'Wrote the copy for a campaign that produced X' is fine; claiming the whole result of a campaign that involved media, design and pricing is the claim interviewers pull apart.
Skills

Copywriter skills for a resume

Brief to concept to copy to test. Write these as things you have shipped, since most copywriter interviews include a live brief or a take-home task.

Hard skills

  • Conversion copy for landing pages, checkout flows, pricing pages and forms
  • Paid social and search copy: hooks, primary text, responsive search ad assets, ad variants
  • Lifecycle email and SMS copy: subject lines, preview text, sequences, win-back flows
  • Campaign concepting from a creative brief, including headline and territory development
  • Brand voice and tone systems: writing a tone guide and applying someone else's
  • A/B and multivariate testing with Optimizely or VWO, plus email tests in Klaviyo or HubSpot
  • Messaging hierarchy, value propositions and proof points from customer research
  • UX writing and microcopy: buttons, empty states, error messages, onboarding
  • Working in design files and CMSs: Figma, Webflow, WordPress, Contentful
  • Measurement basics: conversion rate, click-through, cost per acquisition, sample size and significance

Soft skills

  • Interrogating a vague brief before writing a word
  • Presenting three routes and having an opinion on which one to ship
  • Taking a rewrite from a creative director without relitigating it
  • Writing inside legal, medical or financial review without losing the line
  • Adapting register between a playful DTC brand and a regulated one
  • Collaborating with art direction rather than handing over a document
  • Killing your favourite headline when the data says the plain one wins
  • Interviewing customers and mining reviews for the words people actually use
  • Working to a shipping calendar, not an inspiration schedule
  • Explaining a copy decision to a stakeholder who wants to add three more sentences
Experience

How to write copywriter experience

Formula: surface plus brief plus what shipped plus the measured effect. Where there was a test, give the control, the variant, the metric and the lift. Where there was not, give scale: impressions, sends, the number of markets it ran in.

Agency history should name the client categories and the volume of briefs; brand-side history should name the products, the review process and the systems you built, like a tone guide or a copy library. Both belong on the page, but the emphasis follows the job you want next.

Weak- Wrote copy for digital campaigns, emails and website pages in collaboration with the design and marketing teams.
Strong- Rewrote the checkout flow copy for a DTC skincare brand around the three objections found in customer support tickets, and the variant lifted completion rate 11% against the control in VWO over a 6-week test, holding through the following two quarters.
What to include
Surface written - brand and category - the brief and who set it - concept routes presented - control and variant - metric, lift and duration - scale in sends, impressions or markets - the review process you passed.
Education

Education and certifications

Advertising, English, journalism and communications degrees are common, and an art-school portfolio programme still carries weight in agency hiring. But this is one of the few fields where a strong book from an unrelated background gets read, so keep the section short and spend the page on work.

  • Degree, institution and graduation year - any field
  • Portfolio school or advertising programme, named, for agency-side roles
  • Awards with the year and category, written exactly as the show names them
  • Google Analytics certification on Google Skillshop, for performance-focused roles
  • HubSpot Academy or Klaviyo product certifications for lifecycle and email work
  • Experimentation or CRO training, if you run tests rather than only supply copy
  • Domain credentials that let you write in a regulated category: finance, healthcare, legal
Careful
Never list an award you were part of a team on as though you won it alone. Awards are searchable and creative communities are small.
Entry level

Junior copywriter resume and spec work

Nobody starts with a book of shipped campaigns, and everybody knows it. Spec work is accepted at entry level provided it is labelled as spec, has a real brief behind it, and is executed as if it were going to run. Three to five campaigns, each with a stated problem, audience and idea, is a book.

Then add anything real, however small: copy for a local business, a nonprofit's donation page, a friend's product launch, a Kickstarter page. Real work that shipped and produced a number - even a small one - is worth more than another beautiful spec poster.

  • 3 to 5 spec campaigns with the brief written out, clearly labelled as spec
  • One live piece of work that actually shipped, with whatever result you can report
  • Evidence of range: one long-form piece, one short-form ad, one UX or email flow
  • A tone-of-voice exercise: the same message written for two different brands
  • Portfolio school, internship, or a working relationship with an art director

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Mistakes

Common mistakes

The portfolio link is missing or broken

A copywriter resume without a working book is an unfinished application. One public URL, tested on a phone, in the header.

Copy written to show off the writer

A resume summary full of wordplay makes a creative director nervous, because the job is writing in someone else's voice. Show range in the book, not in your own bio.

No numbers on conversion work

Performance teams hire copywriters to move a rate. If you have ever run against a control, the lift belongs on the page, along with how long it held.

Claiming a whole campaign result

Media, targeting, pricing and design moved that number too. Say what you wrote and what it contributed - interviewers respect the distinction and test for it.

Reading like a content writer resume

Article counts, organic sessions and editorial calendars point at a different job. For copywriting roles, lead with surfaces, briefs, voice and test results.

A designed resume that will not parse

Two columns, custom fonts, a headshot and copy inside images. Agencies and brands both run applicant tracking, and this layout is where strong candidates disappear.

Takeaways

Takeaways

Remember

  • Working portfolio link in the header, strongest work first
  • Name the surfaces you write, not just 'copy'
  • Control, variant, metric and lift wherever you have them
  • Honest attribution of shared campaign results
  • Agency or brand side made explicit
  • Plain single-column resume, art direction in the book
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

A copywriter writes short persuasive copy for specific surfaces - ads, landing pages, emails, packaging, product UI - and is measured against a control: conversion rate, click-through, cost per acquisition. A content writer produces longer editorial work measured in organic traffic, engagement and pipeline sourced. The portfolios differ accordingly: a copy book shows campaigns and variants, a content portfolio shows published pieces. If you do both, keep two resumes and send the one that matches the posting's metrics.
State what you changed, what it was tested against, and the metric that moved: 'rewrote the checkout copy, variant lifted completion 11% against control over six weeks in VWO'. Add whether the result held after the test ended, because plenty do not. Where design or targeting changed at the same time, say so - a writer who volunteers that context reads as rigorous, and performance marketers will ask about it anyway.
Whichever you are applying to. Agency readers want breadth and pace: how many clients and categories, how many briefs a month, how you presented routes and handled feedback. Brand-side readers want depth and systems: knowing one product and customer well, working inside legal or compliance review, and building lasting assets like a tone guide or a messaging framework. Same career, reordered, with the job header making the setting obvious.
At entry level, yes, as long as it is labelled as spec and each piece includes the brief you set yourself. What spec cannot show is how you behave inside a real process - feedback, legal review, deadline pressure - so pair it with at least one piece that actually shipped, even for a small local client. After two or three years of professional work, spec should come out and live work should take its place.
Show two things: that you can hold a voice someone else defined, and that you can define one. Name the brands whose tone guides you worked inside, and if you have written a voice guide or a messaging framework, say who uses it and how many people it governs. In the portfolio, include the same product described for two different brands - it is the fastest way to prove range without a paragraph of claims.
It varies by market, by agency versus in-house, and above all by whether you write brand campaigns or performance copy tied to revenue, so check live postings and current freelance rates in your city. What raises the rate is consistent: measured conversion results, regulated categories that need careful writing, UX writing skills, the ability to concept and not only execute, and a portfolio that proves range. Do not put a rate or salary on the resume.
No. Put the craft in the book and keep the resume plain: one column, standard headings, no photo, no copy trapped inside images. Both agencies and brands run applications through tracking systems, and a designed PDF frequently arrives as scrambled text or blank. If you want the resume to feel like you, do it through the writing in the summary and the bullets, which is what you are being hired for anyway.
Yes - the sample above and every template on this page. You can build your own version in the builder for free and preview it; downloading the finished PDF is paid, by subscription or one-time payment. The templates stay single-column and ATS safe, so the portfolio link and the results survive the automated first pass.
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