Social Media Producer, theSkimm
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$1,325/ week
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Female-focussed news and lifestyle website
Job no longer available
Female-focussed news and lifestyle website
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$1,325/ week
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
TheSkimm's mission is to succinctly give women the information they need to make confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 2-4 years of social media experience at a media company or relevant consumer brand, with emphasis on Instagram and TikTok
- Experience working in fast-paced production cycles
- Excellent news judgment
- Experience creating visual social assets from templates as well as producing video content for social
- Strong sense of humor and ability to package social content with voice and POV
- The creativity to ideate unique and novel formats that stand out in a crowded social media landscape
- You understand theSkimm’s brand and voice and can communicate its message with consistency
Desirable
- You are live and breathe news and pop culture
- You keep up with the industry and can name the latest memes and TikTok trends
- You are comfortable experimenting and are always thinking of creative ways to tell stories
- You are data-driven and/or have experience growing digital audiences
- You’re comfortable on camera with an engaging presence and ability to “talk for TikTok”
- You have created social-first franchises (Instagram, TikTok and emerging platforms)
- Familiarity with Figma, CrowdTangle, Instagram Insights, and Asana
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Contract Social Media Producer to engage and grow our audiences across social media platforms
- Reporting to our Senior Social Media Producer, this role is responsible for ideating and creating social-first content, strategically packaging trending news stories for engagement, and bringing our lifestyle verticals (wellness, money, parenting) to life on Instagram and TikTok in both static and video formats
- End-to-end production of static and video content for Instagram and TikTok, including ideation, writing, asset creation, and scheduling
- Creating assets from existing templates in a timely, thoughtful manner in response to news and pop culture moments
- Identifying unique opportunities to create social-first content based on on trending news particularly news that impacts women’s lives and celebrates their accomplishment
- Producing, editing and delivering video assets for social using in-app editing tools
- Embedding with our editorial vertical teams (wellness, money, parenting) to identify opportunities for social engagement
- Analyzing performance metrics of social content and making recommendations for how to iterate based on the data
Our take
The rapid growth of the internet has given rise to unprecedented access to online information, but this has not been entirely positive. The sheer mass of competing news websites has led to politically-charged, inaccurate, and sensationalist media publishings becoming commonplace. Yet, the demand for feminist and non-partisan news that truly contributes to daily life is higher than ever.
TheSkimm provides a female-focused news and lifestyle website, publishing content regarding the latest news, financial advice, mental wellness tips, and other lifestyle content. The company differentiates itself from competitors by ensuring all information provided is genuinely helpful to the daily lives of women, achieved by checking that each piece is well researched, transparent, and without political motivations.
Whilst the company will face fierce competition from other female-focused content sites, TheSkimm has recognized that many such sites are tabloids, compromising the validity and usefulness of contained information. Through its focus on accurate publishing and content value, the company hopes to enrich the lives of women by ensuring that they always have the information to make life decisions comfortably.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2019
$12m
SERIES C
May 2018
$12m
SERIES C
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- Unlimited vacation policy and generous holiday observances
- A hybrid working model with flexibility for remote work
- Comprehensive insurance plans and commuter benefits
- Auto-enrollment into a MassMutual 401(k) plan starting on your first day and employer contribution available after one year of employment
- Rewards for every work anniversary
- One month paid sabbatical after your five year anniversary as a full-time employee
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave (adoption, fostering and surrogacy included)
- Bereavement leave for pregnancy loss
- Phased return to work schedule availability
- Flexibility based on parental schedules
- Access to family building and fertility benefits
- Flexible and broad-scale child support program
- We honor Sacred Time in our workplace
- We have aligned company “time off” during the summer to truly allow for us all to break from our work at the same time
- We offer fitness membership reimbursement
- One Medical Membership is included with our benefits
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Complimentary access to theSkimm’s suite of membership products and swag
- The opportunity to be part of a values-driven, hardworking, and diverse group of people building a media company that makes it easier to live smarter
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Carly Zakin
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Associate Producer of Sirens Media and NBC Peacock Productions. Founder and Head Consultant of HigherWrite since 2011.
Danielle Weisberg
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Assistant Editor for The Daily Beast. Associate Producer for NBC News from 2010 to 2012.
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