KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.
As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
We're looking for a Conceptual Copywriter with strong advertising agency or brand-side creative experience to join KAYAK’s in-house creative team.
You might come from a traditional advertising background, a social-first creative team, or somewhere in between. What matters most is that you know how to develop big ideas and communicate them with words - writing sharp, compelling copy, and bringing campaigns to life across multiple channels.
At KAYAK, creativity plays a central role in how we grow our brands. We’re looking for someone who understands the power of language - someone who can turn product truths, cultural insight, and business challenges into work people actually notice. Work that entertains, builds the brand, and drives performance.
You should be obsessed with words and understand how they shape not just campaigns, but the voice and personality of a brand. You know how to balance clarity with creativity, humour with strategy, and craft with commercial impact. As comfortable having and communicating your ideas as you are bringing them to life in a collaborative studio setting.
This role will be required to work from our London office at least 3 days per week.
Develop creative concepts and write copy across brand, performance, social, video, digital, OOH, and emerging platforms
Write across a wide range of formats including campaigns, scripts, social content, CRM, landing pages, product messaging, and brand communications
Help shape and evolve KAYAK’s voice and tone across multiple touchpoints
Partner with creatives, designers, marketers, and product teams to create cohesive, insight-led creative
Help take ideas from brief through execution while maintaining a high level of craft
Contribute to presentations, campaign platforms, messaging frameworks, and creative strategy
Use testing and performance insights to refine messaging and improve results
Help maintain and elevate creative standards across the team
4-6+ years into your creative career, with strong thinking, craft, and a portfolio that shows what you can do.
Curious, collaborative, and highly motivated
Strong conceptually, with exceptional writing craft and a sharp instinct for ideas
Comfortable writing across different tones, formats, and audiences
Able to balance creative ambition with commercial objectives
Interested in using data, testing, and audience insight to improve creative performance
Passionate about branding, storytelling, travel, and culture
Excited by emerging creative tools and technologies, including AI
Ready to be contribute to an idea-first, progressive in-house studio
Have experience working within an advertising agency or strong brand side creative environment
Have a portfolio demonstrating thorough conceptual thinking and execution across multiple formats
Be confident working across multiple channels and formats
Have an instinct for how words work with visuals
Have strong communication and collaboration skills
Be highly organised and comfortable managing multiple projects at once
Have a genuine passion for travel and creativity
Experience in film production process advantageous
5 weeks of paid vacation
Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
Private health & dental insurance
Income protection and life assurance
Pension plan contributions
Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
Focus on mental health and well-being:
Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
Company-paid subscription to Headspace
Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
No meeting Fridays
Paid parental leave
Paid volunteer time
Focus on your career growth:
Travel Discounts
Employee Resource Groups
Employee Assistance Program - including 24/7 GP & free legal advice
Discounted gym membership
Bike2Work
Season ticket loan
Social events & Thursday happy hours
Free lunch 2 days per week
At KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That’s why we’re focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences, supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here.
Need an accommodation for the interview, application or on the job? No problem - just give us a heads-up. We’ve got you.
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