Content and Social Media Marketer

Job Description

At a Glance

Us: A fast-growing startup of 150+ people. Remote team, mainly based in the UK & New York. YC alumni (summer 2019). We’re on a mission to revolutionize how the world learns about people, so people can revolutionize the world.

Salary: £55,000-60,000 + bonus + share options

The Role

Join Prolific as our Social Media & Content Marketer, where your passion for storytelling and expertise in content marketing will play a pivotal role in building our brand across multiple platforms. With a primary focus on branded content and a secondary emphasis on acquisition materials, you'll be the driving force behind creating content that not only resonates with our audience but also drives significant business outcomes such as user registrations, engagement, and retention.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the ideation and creation of impactful content marketing strategies across owned and earned channels, including social media and customer marketing.
• Manage and grow our presence on social media and proprietary channels like YouTube, championing the development of branded content.
• Craft compelling acquisition-focused content, such as ebooks, blog posts, and whitepapers, to attract and convert potential users.
• Serve as our content expert and an internal strategy consultant for our Growth teams, combining journalistic thinking with editorial strategy.
• Oversee our content calendar, ensuring seamless coordination and management of internal stakeholders.
• Spearhead the development of new content channels and programs.

What you’ll bring

• A master storyteller capable of crafting stories from within our business and customer base to drive key business outcomes.
• Proactively seeks to maximize content investments by repurposing, reformatting, and reactivating existing assets.
• Willing to experiment with new technologies to automate and enhance workflows, achieving goals more efficiently.
• Relies on data-driven insights to inform content strategy and validate its effectiveness.

Even better if you have

• Demonstrated SEO expertise.
• A strong copywriting skill set, able to support or lead copywriting tasks to assist our in-house copywriting and design team.
• Proficiency in design and video production, skilled in using tools like Canva to create visually compelling content.
• Experience in managing online communities, particularly within the tech or academic sectors.

What you'll get

⚖️ Work Life Balance: We’re all looking to strike the right work life balance, and as a remote first company you’re able to work flexibly from home or our dog-friendly co-working space in Shoreditch and Manchester. We also offer 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays of course, which you can switch with any day of your choosing.

🏡 Family Life: We offer generous maternity, paternity and shared parental leave. Need to pick your child up from school? No Problem. Our flexible working gives you the childcare flexibility you need.

💰 Pension: We offer a salary sacrifice pension with a 3% starting employer contribution.

📈 Share Options: An exciting option to buy shares of Prolific in the future.

🧘 Wellbeing: We care deeply about our employees well-being, that’s why we offer comprehensive Bupa & Medicash private health insurance, that disregards medical history. Taxable monthly stipend of £150 in order for you to improve your wellness and remote experience. We want you to have a happy and healthy environment so we offer a £1000 home office budget, along with a Apple MacBook when you start, plus a £200 yearly top-up.

⚰️ Death-in-service: We offer a death-in-service benefit that would pay out 4x of your annual salary.

📚 Learn & Grow: Development is important to us, and we want to give all our employees the opportunity to learn. There are many personal growth and career progression opportunities available, as well as mentoring. We also offer a £1000 yearly budget for education, growth and training for you to use at your discretion.

💙 Culture: We’re a friendly bunch here at Prolific; open, transparent and inclusive. Although we’re a remote first company we still love to hang out with each other! We run collaborative quarterly company-wide meets up and team socials (both virtually and in-person), all paid for. Alongside this we offer a £1000 yearly budget for discretionary meet-ups so you can cover travel, food and accommodation. As a business we’re also committed to carbon offsetting; each month we donate money in your name to plant trees 🌳 and being remote we’re doing our bit to offset travel too

Our Interview Process

Talent Call: You'll meet with one of our Talent team and have an exploratory call about the role requirements, life at Prolific, as well as your background and aspirations.

Hiring Manager Interview: You'll interview with two members of the team, one of which will be the hiring manager. You'll have the opportunity to ask about the company and the role, and we'll ask you questions about your experiences and goals. Panel Interview: We'll hold a panel interview that evaluates skills required for the role. You'll meet with more of our team and may be asked to complete a presentation or task. You'll be compensated with a £50 voucher 💰 for completing the task because we know your time is valuable! Final Interview: We will deep dive into your past experiences, goals, motivations, and skills all aligned to our Prolific Principles. You'll speak with two to three members of the team and - as always - have an opportunity to ask questions about the role and company.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Monitoring

Prolific is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. We welcome all applications, and consider them without regard to race, religion, belief, age, gender, gender expression, gender identity, gender reassignment, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, sex or sexual orientation.

We are committed to ensuring a fair recruitment process, it's essential to our success. Under the Equality Act (2010) we collect information from individuals at the point of application. We anonymously monitor the profiles of individuals that apply to each vacancy to ensure that no individual is unfairly discriminated against or disadvantaged.

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