Social Media Strategist
WaitWhat is looking for a full-time social media editor who can communicate with passionate audiences using data-driven insights and your own creativity, as we work together to bring new media launches to scale and build communities around them.
You’ll have a minimum of four years of professional experience in social media, with a proven ability to turn analytics into actions, and to create meaningful social media experiences that enrich communities and expand audiences. You enjoy both setting strategy and executing the day-to-day through paid and organic social.
You’re looking for a job where you can put your talents to work for meaningful media you actually enjoy. You must love startup culture, feel energized by team environments, and have an all-hands-on-deck attitude. You’re looking for a place where you’ll have significant opportunities to feed your audience’s insights back to the company to make an impact. You’re an evangelist for the value of social media to create and feed passion in audiences.
Responsibilities
- Develop social media strategies for the properties on the WaitWhat roster, working with creators and guests to develop voice and approach
- Execute those strategies daily, combining insights from data with your own exceptional writing skills
- Monitor and modify those strategies based on audience insights
- Create simple visual and animated assets for sharing, and oversee creation of more complex assets
- Gather and interpret metrics for creators and partners across platforms and properties
- Plan and execute paid social campaigns, especially around launches
- Follow industry news and experiment with emerging tools and techniques
- Manage partner relationships around social campaigns
- Other responsibilities as assigned
The ideal candidate will have:
- Minimum 4 years of professional social media experience, with a proven track record in building and expanding social audiences.
- Professional experience with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
- Professional experience with relevant social media monitoring tools.
- Excellent writing skills, and an ability to write for a range of editorial voices.
- Excellent spelling and grammar skills (bonus points if you spot the typo in this listing).
- Basic design skills using Photoshop or Canva, and simple video subtitling tools such as Kapwing or Headliner.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask on deadline.
- Confidence in executing tasks independently, working with remote team members, and interacting with peers and senior executives at partner companies.
- Newsletter experience is a big plus
- PLEASE SUBMIT BOTH A THOUGHTFUL COVER LETTER AND RESUME.
This is a FT position. While we are working remotely, our company is based in Manhattan. We offer a benefits package that’s generous and competitive. We work long hours, but we also rest: Our whole company closes for 2 weeks in the summer and the week between Christmas and the New Year, so we can recharge. We’re committed to diversity of all kinds — in our media properties, among our investors and on our team: women, minorities and anyone with an unconventional background are strongly encouraged to apply. And most important, we only hire extremely nice people.