Company Overview

829 Studios has been named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies, Adweek 100 Fastest-Growing Digital Agencies, Boston Business Journal's Fast 50 (Massachusetts' 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies) and HubSpot's Top Digital Agencies list. We’re a certified Great Place to Work® and have been recognized by Outside Magazine as a Best Place to Work. Our projects and team members have received awards from the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI), Awwwards, and other marketing industry publications. Our clients include venture-backed start-ups, publicly traded companies, non-profit organizations, and more. We're proud to be working with STANLEY Black & Decker, OARS, Hilton Hotels, Stanford University, and hundreds of other companies that share our passion for performance marketing.

Position Summary

The Social Media Specialist is a mid-level position on our Organic Social team. In this role, you will be part of the team responsible for ideation, strategy, planning, and implementation of organic social media and influencer marketing initiatives across multiple social platforms for our clients. You will extract insights from monthly performance reports to inform strategic recommendations for account optimizations and future social media initiatives. This team member works closely and cross-functionally to execute on high-impact social media and influencer marketing initiatives.

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Keep up to date on the best practices of the main social media channels, which content and approaches work on each and why
• Manage social and influencer strategy for a variety of clients owned organic social channels ( Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest)
• Collaborate across all marketing teams to develop effective social media strategies and influencer marketing campaigns, delivering fresh ideas that meet the client’s business objectives
• Develop content marketing strategy plans, content calendars, and process documents for assigned clients
• Create target audience personas backed by research
• Aid in the creation of creative briefs for and work with the design team to produce a variety of organic social assets.
• Leverage “Test & Learn” agenda to drive KPIs and execute on an ambitious brand growth agenda across channels
• Conduct performance reporting, insight gathering, and optimization recommendations will be required on an ongoing basis (experience with Google Analytics preferred)
• Contribute ideas to, create content for, and help plan for initiatives
• Create valuable, original, relatable, timely, insightful, and memorable pieces of owned social content in the following formats – longform, short form (social media posts, email, text, phone, reviews, user generated content), and visual (photography, animated GIFs, memes, video, infographics)
• Collaborate with Organic Social team members to develop process as the team scales

Must Haves

• 2 years of social media and influencer marketing experience developing content strategies and media campaigns as well as creating content in social platforms
• Strategic marketing mindset that seeks to understand what audiences consume and how to create the best quality version of it
• Experience setting up and maintaining social channels and familiarity with native platform reporting
• Understanding of paid social media and targeting
• Understanding of product launches, brand storytelling, media and influencer-relations strategies
• Experience with social analytics and reporting
• Experience with organic and paid content creation and publishing
• Experience implementing testing strategies within social channels
• Ability to analyze and present content and social performance
• Experience with social media tools (Hootsuite, Later, Sprout Social, Agorapulse, Canva, Adobe Suite)
• Experience with Google Analytics
• Strong writing style and excellent grammatical skills
• Ability to work within a fast-paced environment, meet client deadlines, and experience with a project management system (ClickUp, Wrike, Asana, etc.)

Nice-to-Haves

• 1 years of agency or digital marketing experience is preferred, but not required
• Experience with Adobe Suite and audio/video editing tools is a plus
• SEO knowledge and basic understanding of website software is a plus

Benefits & Perks

• Paid Time Off. Receive generous paid vacation benefits that increase as you advance. Summer Fridays Memorial Day through Labor Day.
• 401K Match. 401K plan with 4% Safe Harbor employer match after one year of employment.
• Life Insurance Benefit. Coverage to ensure peace of mind for your family. 
• Short Term Disability Benefit. Injured and unable to come to work? We've got you covered!
• Healthcare. Choose from several competitive healthcare plans for both you and your family.
• Commuter Benefits. Allocate pre-tax funds towards your commute to save up to 40% per year in transportation expenses.
• Continuing Education. Receive a personal budget to attend events and conferences.
• Hybrid or Remote Workplace. We're able to hire remote employees residing in the following states: AZ, CA, CT, FL, IL, MA, ME, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, RI, TN, & TX.