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Autostraddle is on the lookout for an formidable and skilled salesperson to amp up our presence within the promoting and affiliate house in a management function because the Advertising and Affiliate Marketing Director.
The excellent candidate will likely be a personable, detail-oriented mission supervisor and drawback solver, capable of work independently in the direction of shared targets and construct significant relationships with inner and exterior stakeholders. You’ll be a gifted written and oral communicator who will get enthusiastic about brainstorming and creating artistic, distinctive model partnerships, and be a self-starter who’s capable of soar proper in on a major workload.
You will likely be working remotely with a small workforce of 9 full-time staff throughout the nation, however will sometimes be required to fulfill with shoppers in-person, and due to this fact ideally you may be situated in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco or the encompassing areas. Although different workforce members will help you with brainstorming, sponsored content material and visible design, you may be the one full-time worker dedicated to Advertising and Affiliate Sales.
Historically we now have relied on income from subscribers and occasions to comprise our funds, however we want to shift in the direction of a mannequin that depends equally, if not moreso, on promoting and affiliate income.This is our first full-time place devoted solely to promoting and affiliate income, and your work will allow our firm to proceed offering neighborhood and dependable employment for LGBTQ+ folks, and show the unimaginable viability of the queer market to manufacturers worldwide.
Responsibilities will embrace:
Putting collectively media packages and pricing for RFPs.Researching and cold-calling potential advertisers (nationwide and regional) in step with our goal demographic.Building relationships with potential and present advertisers.Effectively articulating and speaking the Autostraddle model by advertising supplies and proposals.Attending in-person conferences, conferences and occasions as obligatory.Project managing our workforce members and exterior contractors concerned within the execution of a marketing campaign from idea to completion.Providing recap decks to show ROI to shoppers post-campaign.Selecting and managing our advert insertion platforms for programmatic and direct campaigns.Researching, recommending, negotiating contracts and sustaining affiliate partnerships with related retailers.Developing relationships with shoppers at indie/queer/women-owned/POC-owned retailers to develop mutually useful affiliate relationships.Tracking efficiency of commerce content material and partnerships and sharing suggestions and metrics with the Senior Staff.Managing the day-to-day operations of a number of affiliate packages, together with their technological implementation.Leading activation/cost and compliance communication with associates.Conceptualizing, pitching and creating (in collaboration with the editorial workforce) well-researched and sincere shoppable content material.
The excellent candidate’s background will embrace:
2+ years of confirmed experience and expertise working in digital advert gross salesExperience with and data of internet online affiliate marketingAn understanding of the present advert gross sales market, in addition to present developments in LGBTQ media, podcasting, girls’s media, publishing and social media.Prior enterprise improvement, content material technique or a advertising function, ideally within the promoting gross sales digital advertising sector.Familiarity with main affiliate networks, digital advert know-how and present business developments.
While not required, we’d even be eager about candidates with the next attributes. If that is you, please tell us in your utility!
A community of contacts at related manufacturers and agenciesProficiency in Slack, Airtable, Google Analytics, Jetpack / PhrasePress Stats, the Adobe Suite and/or Parse.ly
About Working at Autostraddle
Founded by a bunch of pals utilizing a queen mattress as a desk in a cramped Morningside Heights condominium, Autostraddle has since grown to a number one media firm financed primarily by the help of our passionate neighborhood of readers. We are devoted to creating secure and supportive alternatives for employment, contract work and self-expression for LGBTQIA+ folks. Aside from our annual employees retreat, our workplace is fully distant with a full-time workforce of 9 staff, in addition to quite a few part-time and freelance staff.
You are largely capable of set your personal hours with the expectation that they may overlap with required conferences and the hours of different workforce members as a lot as potential.
Compensation:
Salary negotiable based mostly on expertise, beginning at $50k/yr + 5%-30% fee on advert salesMedical, dental and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage for worker and dependents401(okay) after six months of employmentUnlimited PTO
Full-time exempt, RemoteApply by September 15, 2021
We’re on the lookout for a gifted author and editor with management chops, digital media expertise and a repository of Web optimization data to hitch our workforce as a Deputy Editor. Second in rank to the Editor-in-Chief, the Deputy Editor will likely be liable for creating a imaginative and prescient that aligns our artistic and moral targets with the oft-compromising actuality that our survival will depend on content material that performs nicely on engines like google. The Deputy Editor may also be writing their very own work, enhancing work from freelance writers, managing our workforce of part-time Subject Editors and consulting on all-around technique.
The Deputy Editor could have a vested curiosity in creating on-line media and neighborhood that’s enjoyable, accessible, mental and analytical. They will worth the significance of working collectively as part of a small workforce on giant tasks, and be self-driven to observe by tasks from conception to completion.
You will likely be primarily working remotely, and we’re eager about candidates from anyplace within the United States. If you might be situated in a serious U.S. metro space, please tell us. There are numerous in-person occasions, conferences and interviews the place adjacency to cities comparable to L.A., New York, San Francisco and Chicago is useful.
Responsibilities will embrace:
Working with on-line instruments and inner and exterior consultants to develop good, good, environment friendly editorial technique for Web optimization-optimized content material, together with monitoring related search developments, adjusting workflow processes, and soliciting, writing and enhancing content material according to our Web optimization targets.Writing 2-3 posts per week.Working with the Editor-in-Chief to fulfill visitors targets and information the editorial, artistic and cultural imaginative and prescient of Autostraddle.com.Assuming the function of Editor-in-Chief in her absence.Managing and mentoring a workforce of 4-5 part-time Subject Editors.Working with the Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief to handle workforce writers.Self-managing a pipeline of soliciting, responding to solicited pitches, enhancing and publishing workforce and freelance writers.Representing Autostraddle in individual, as press or participant, as wanted at occasions (e.g., GLAAD Awards, Press Junkets).Collaborating with your complete senior workforce and ourA+/Fundraising Director to brainstorm and craft annual/bi-annual Fundraising campaigns andmonthly A+ content material.As wanted, working with our Advertising + Affiliates director to craft pitches for spon-con.
The excellent candidate’s background will embrace:
3+ years of expertise writing and/or enhancing for a digital publication.Complete literacy in Web optimization for publishers and associated instruments.The capacity to provide content material on a good turnaround and craft intelligent headlines whereas bringing distinctive views and well-honed evaluation to tales related to our neighborhood which can be filled with your personal voice.Existing proficiency (or fast studying!) of fundamental HTML, Google Analytics, Slack, PhrasePress, Jetpack Stats, Yoast, Photoshop, Airtable, Google Search Console, Parse.ly and Mailchimp.Experience managing folks or mission administration, performing customer support, social media.Familiarity with on-line neighborhood tradition and the precise nuances of politically progressive queer areas.Impeccable and intuitive writing, enhancing and copyediting abilities.An curiosity and pure/instinctive capacity to attach with readers utilizing writing and social media, a powerful private model.Solid social abilities in all codecs (electronic mail, chat, telephone, IRL).A dedication to anti-racism and the inclusion of disabled and trans folks in queer communities.Demonstrated capacity to mentor, edit and collaborate with writers and creators from traditionally marginalized communities, comparable to QTPOC, disabled and trans folks and an understanding of and perception within the significance of the distinctive wants of these communities.
About Working at Autostraddle:
Founded by a bunch of pals utilizing a queen mattress as a desk in a cramped Morningside Heights condominium, Autostraddle has since grown to a number one media firm financed primarily by the help of our passionate neighborhood of readers. We are devoted to creating secure and supportive alternatives for employment, contract work and self-expression for LGBTQIA+ folks. Aside from our annual employees retreat, our workplace is fully distant with a full-time workforce of 9 staff, in addition to quite a few part-time and freelance staff.
You are largely capable of set your personal hours with the expectation that they may overlap with required conferences and the hours of different workforce members as a lot as potential. Twice a month you may be tasked with “weekend editor” duties, which contain 2-3 hours of weekend work in addition to being conscious of what’s taking place on the web site and in Slack over the weekend. In these weeks you may be anticipated to take a weekday off.
Compensation:
$70k/yr salaryMedical, dental and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage for worker and dependents401(okay) after six monthsUnlimited PTOOpportunities to earn more money writing sponsored content material
Full-time exempt, RemoteApply by September 15, 2021
We’re on the lookout for a gifted, distinctive author and editor with a stack of huge content material concepts you’re wanting to unleash upon the web. Ideally your personal writing will run the gamut stylistically, from humorous bizarre shit to servicey tricks to deep essays and precise journalism. You will likely be working with workforce and freelance writers to hone their abilities and publish high-caliber, voicey, participating articles and essays. And you’ll be keen to attach with the Autostraddle neighborhood by your work and their emotions!
Responsibilities embrace:
Writing 2-3 posts per week.Editing of freelance and workforce writers: self-management of pipeline of soliciting, responding to solicited pitches, enhancing and publishing. Managing the publishing calendar.Building our community of freelance writers with your personal contacts in addition to actively looking for new voices so as to add to our roster.Working with the Deputy Editor and Editor-in-Chief to handle workforce writers.Developing, managing and publishing content material packages for occasions like Pride and the Winter Holidays in addition to quarterly mid-size themed content material weeks designed to peak reader engagement and curiosity (e.g. Butt Week, Missed Connections, I Think We’re Alone Now Week).Periodically checking and responding to exterior submissions.Collaborating with your complete senior workforce and ourA+/Fundraising Director to brainstorm and craft annual/bi-annual Fundraising campaigns andmonthly A+ content material.As wanted, working with our Advertising + Affiliates director to craft pitches for spon-con.
The excellent candidates background will embrace:
1+ years administration expertise in on-line media.2+ years expertise as an editor in any setting (contains work as a writing teacher/trainer of some form).A real, consuming ardour for working with folks to construct their abilities as writers and editors, particularly writers whose voices have traditionally been marginalized.Impeccable and intuitive writing, enhancing and copyediting abilities.A robust author’s voice and the power to provide creative and/or newsy content material on a good turnaround with intelligent headlines and energetic prose in addition to a versatile type.Self-discipline and self-starter qualities inside a distant working capability.Project administration expertise.Existing proficiency (or capacity to rapidly be taught!) fundamental HTML, Google Analytics, Slack, PhrasePress, Photoshop, Airtable, Parse.ly and Mailchimp.Familiarity with on-line neighborhood tradition and the precise nuances of politically progressive queer areas.Strong social abilities in all codecs (electronic mail, chat, telephone, IRL).An curiosity and pure/instinctive capacity to attach with readers utilizing writing and social media, a powerful private model.A dedication to anti-racism and the inclusion of disabled and trans folks in queer communities.Demonstrated capacity to mentor, edit and collaborate with writers and creators from traditionally marginalized communities, comparable to QTPOC, disabled and trans folks and an understanding of and perception within the significance of the distinctive wants of these communities.
While not required, we’d even be eager about candidates with the next areas of experience or abilities. If that is you, please tell us in your utility!:
Political evaluation and reporting from a queer lens, particularly with topical or tight deadlines.Interest or experience in writing about LGBTQ intercourse and relationship.Ability to helm protection of books and literature critiques, together with seasonal guide previews.
About Working at Autostraddle:
Founded by a bunch of pals utilizing a queen mattress as a desk in a cramped Morningside Heights condominium, Autostraddle has since grown to a number one media firm financed primarily by the help of our passionate neighborhood of readers. We are devoted to creating secure and supportive alternatives for employment, contract work and self-expression for LGBTQIA+ folks. Aside from our annual employees retreat, our workplace is fully distant with a full-time workforce of 9 staff, in addition to quite a few part-time and freelance staff.
You are largely capable of set your personal hours with the expectation that they may overlap with required conferences and the hours of different workforce members as a lot as potential. Twice a month you may be tasked with “weekend editor” duties, which contain 2-3 hours of weekend work in addition to being vaguely conscious of what’s taking place on the web site and in Slack over the weekend. On these weeks you may be anticipated to take a weekday off.
Compensation:
$65k/yr salaryMedical, dental and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage for worker and dependents401(okay) after six months of employmentUnlimited PTOOpportunities to earn more money writing sponsored content material
The Excitant Group LLC is an equal alternative office. All certified candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to, and won’t be discriminated in opposition to based mostly on age, race, gender, trans standing, faith, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender presentation, incapacity, veteran standing or every other protected class.
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