Hearst Media Design
Type: Full Time
Position: Assistant Social Editor
Location: New York, NY
The Hearst Design Group – ELLEDECOR.com, housebeautiful.com, and VERANDA.com – is looking to hire a savvy, design–obsessed, and analytics-minded assistant social media editor to manage all social verticals for the three sites. The ideal candidate has experience working on social media for a major brand and has demonstrated success growing the following, engaging an audience, and increasing traffic referrals. You should love interior design, follow @ELLEDECOR, @Housebeautiful and @Verandamag across platforms, and be familiar with the voice and tone of our social channels.
In this position you will:
- Identify top-performing themes and article ideas for coverage on the three brands
- Write and assign articles based on what’s working socially
- Write and schedule posts across all of the three brands’ social media channels
- Obsessively track performance of social posts to better understand what works and increase monthly referrals to the three websites
- Engage followers and grow the audience
- Pitch and execute posts generated from user content
- Launch the three brands’ presence on emerging and appropriate social platforms
Qualifications:
- 1+ years experience writing/editing with a lifestyle brand
- 1+ years experience working on social media for a major brand, with a proven track record for increasing followers, engagement, and traffic
- Experience with Omniture, Chartbeat, Google Analytics, or similar
- Experience with CMS/blogging tools
- Strategic thinker willing to to push the envelope and bring fresh, innovative ideas to life
- Knowledge of/obsession with design and the design world blogosphere
- Experience producing multimedia and/or knowledge of video and photo editing platforms is a plus.
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Random House – Ballantine Bantam Dell
Type: Full Time
Position: Assistant Marketing Manager
Location: New York, NY
The Random House Publishing Group seeks an Assistant Marketing Manager for the Ballantine Bantam Dell division. This position will report to the Director of Marketing and is ideal for those who have a passion for women’s fiction and romance novels. The Assistant Manager will be responsible for the marketing campaigns for frontlist and backlist authors, and will work in collaboration with publicity, sales, and the marketing team to create consistent messages to reach our targeted audiences.
Responsibilities include:
- Thinking out of the box to generate, plan, and execute creative ideas for promotional campaigns
- Brainstorming targeted messaging, taglines, and content
- Managing the creation of campaign materials including ad reservations, writing copy, coordinating with design and production, and campaign reporting
- Developing long-term integrated marketing strategies and adhering strictly to budgets
- Digital marketing campaign execution such as creating and updating Facebook profiles for authors, handling digital ads, coordinating corporate and author e-newsletters, and updating website content
- Coordinating marketing mailings including writing galley letters and researching/creating/tracking new lists
Our requirements:
The ideal candidate has a BA in marketing or a related field, as well as related experience in a corporate marketing department. Candidates must have demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. This role requires strong communication, organization, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize and multi-task in a dynamic environment.
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