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Full-time exempt, RemoteApplications shall be reviewed on a rolling foundation
Autostraddle is on the lookout for an bold and skilled salesperson to amp up our presence within the promoting and affiliate area in a management function because the Advertising and Affiliate Marketing Director.
The excellent candidate shall be a personable, detail-oriented mission supervisor and drawback solver, capable of work independently in direction of shared targets and construct significant relationships with inside 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 bounce proper in on a major workload.
You shall be working remotely with a small group of 9 full-time workers throughout the nation, however will sometimes be required to fulfill with shoppers in-person, and subsequently ideally you may be positioned in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco or the encompassing areas. Although different group 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 now we have relied on income from subscribers and occasions to comprise our finances, however we wish to shift in 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 group and dependable employment for LGBTQ+ individuals, and show the unbelievable 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) per our goal demographic.Building relationships with potential and present advertisers.Effectively articulating and speaking the Autostraddle model via advertising supplies and proposals.Attending in-person conferences, conferences and occasions as vital.Project managing our group members and exterior contractors concerned within the execution of a marketing campaign from idea to completion.Providing recap decks to exhibit 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 helpful 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 group) 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 information of internet online affiliate marketingAn understanding of the present advert gross sales market, in addition to present traits 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 expertise and present business traits.
While not required, we might even be taken with candidates with the next attributes. If that is you, please tell us in your software!
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 buddies utilizing a queen mattress as a desk in a cramped Morningside Heights condo, Autostraddle has since grown to a number one media firm financed primarily by the assist of our passionate group of readers. We are devoted to creating secure and supportive alternatives for employment, contract work and self-expression for LGBTQIA+ individuals. Aside from our annual employees retreat, our workplace is completely distant with a full-time group of 9 workers, in addition to quite a few part-time and freelance employees.
You are largely capable of set your personal hours with the expectation that they’ll overlap with required conferences and the hours of different group members as a lot as doable.
Compensation:
Salary negotiable primarily based on expertise, beginning at $50k/12 months + 5%-30% fee on advert salesMedical, dental and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage for worker and dependents401(ok) 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 Search engine optimization information to affix our group as a Deputy Editor. Second in rank to the Editor-in-Chief, the Deputy Editor shall be accountable 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 can even be writing their very own work, modifying work from freelance writers, managing our group of part-time Subject Editors and consulting on all-around technique.
The Deputy Editor may have a vested curiosity in creating on-line media and group that’s enjoyable, accessible, mental and analytical. They will worth the significance of working collectively as part of a small group on massive initiatives, and be self-driven to observe via initiatives from conception to completion.
You shall be primarily working remotely, and we’re taken with candidates from anyplace within the United States. If you’re positioned in a serious U.S. metro space, please tell us. There are a variety of in-person occasions, conferences and interviews the place adjacency to cities equivalent to L.A., New York, San Francisco and Chicago is useful.
Responsibilities will embrace:
Working with on-line instruments and inside and exterior consultants to develop good, sensible, environment friendly editorial technique for Search engine optimization-optimized content material, together with monitoring related search traits, adjusting workflow processes, and soliciting, writing and modifying content material in keeping with our Search engine optimization targets.Writing 2-3 posts every week.Working with the Editor-in-Chief to fulfill site 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 group of 4-5 part-time Subject Editors.Working with the Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief to handle group writers.Self-managing a pipeline of soliciting, responding to solicited pitches, modifying and publishing group and freelance writers.Representing Autostraddle in particular person, as press or participant, as wanted at occasions (e.g., GLAAD Awards, Press Junkets).Collaborating with all the senior group and our A+/Fundraising Director to brainstorm and craft annual/bi-annual Fundraising campaigns and month-to-month 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 modifying for a digital publication.Complete literacy in Search engine optimization for publishers and associated instruments.The capacity to provide content material on a decent turnaround and craft intelligent headlines whereas bringing distinctive views and well-honed evaluation to tales related to our group which are 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 individuals or mission administration, performing customer support, social media.Familiarity with on-line group tradition and the particular nuances of politically progressive queer areas.Impeccable and intuitive writing, modifying 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 (e-mail, chat, cellphone, IRL).A dedication to anti-racism and the inclusion of disabled and trans individuals in queer communities.Demonstrated capacity to mentor, edit and collaborate with writers and creators from traditionally marginalized communities, equivalent to QTPOC, disabled and trans individuals 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 buddies utilizing a queen mattress as a desk in a cramped Morningside Heights condo, Autostraddle has since grown to a number one media firm financed primarily by the assist of our passionate group of readers. We are devoted to creating secure and supportive alternatives for employment, contract work and self-expression for LGBTQIA+ individuals. Aside from our annual employees retreat, our workplace is completely distant with a full-time group of 9 workers, in addition to quite a few part-time and freelance employees.
You are largely capable of set your personal hours with the expectation that they’ll overlap with required conferences and the hours of different group members as a lot as doable. 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/12 months salaryMedical, dental and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage for worker and dependents401(ok) 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 massive content material concepts you’re desirous 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 shall be working with group and freelance writers to hone their abilities and publish high-caliber, voicey, partaking articles and essays. And you’ll be keen to attach with the Autostraddle group via your work and their emotions!
Responsibilities embrace:
Writing 2-3 posts every week.Editing of freelance and group writers: self-management of pipeline of soliciting, responding to solicited pitches, modifying and publishing. Managing the publishing calendar.Building our community of freelance writers with your personal contacts in addition to actively in search of new voices so as to add to our roster.Working with the Deputy Editor and Editor-in-Chief to handle group 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 all the senior group and our A+/Fundraising Director to brainstorm and craft annual/bi-annual Fundraising campaigns and month-to-month 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/instructor of some sort).A real, consuming ardour for working with individuals to construct their abilities as writers and editors, particularly writers whose voices have traditionally been marginalized.Impeccable and intuitive writing, modifying and copyediting abilities.A robust author’s voice and the flexibility to provide ingenious and/or newsy content material on a decent turnaround with intelligent headlines and full of life prose in addition to a versatile model.Self-discipline and self-starter qualities inside a distant working capability.Project administration expertise.Existing proficiency (or capacity to shortly be taught!) fundamental HTML, Google Analytics, Slack, PhrasePress, Photoshop, Airtable, Parse.ly and Mailchimp.Familiarity with on-line group tradition and the particular nuances of politically progressive queer areas.Strong social abilities in all codecs (e-mail, chat, cellphone, 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 individuals in queer communities.Demonstrated capacity to mentor, edit and collaborate with writers and creators from traditionally marginalized communities, equivalent to QTPOC, disabled and trans individuals and an understanding of and perception within the significance of the distinctive wants of these communities.
While not required, we might even be taken with candidates with the next areas of experience or abilities. If that is you, please tell us in your software!:
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 evaluations, together with seasonal e book previews.
About Working at Autostraddle:
Founded by a bunch of buddies utilizing a queen mattress as a desk in a cramped Morningside Heights condo, Autostraddle has since grown to a number one media firm financed primarily by the assist of our passionate group of readers. We are devoted to creating secure and supportive alternatives for employment, contract work and self-expression for LGBTQIA+ individuals. Aside from our annual employees retreat, our workplace is completely distant with a full-time group of 9 workers, in addition to quite a few part-time and freelance employees.
You are largely capable of set your personal hours with the expectation that they’ll overlap with required conferences and the hours of different group members as a lot as doable. 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/12 months salaryMedical, dental and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage for worker and dependents401(ok) 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 towards primarily based on age, race, gender, trans standing, faith, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender presentation, incapacity, veteran standing or every other protected class.
