Social Media Manager - Flexible Hours

We are seeking a talented and dedicated female Social Media Manager with strong writing skills (captions, blogs, copywriting) and a creative eye for design and viral social media trends. This role includes graphic creation and video editing, with flexible hours (work in your time zone) for 40 hours per week. Marketing, Meta Ads, and social media management experience are a plus but not required—we’re willing to train the right candidate. Basic knowledge of Instagram growth strategies is a bonus but not mandatory. Flexible Hours: Work within your preferred schedule and time zone, hours are tracked via Hubstaff.

**MUST FOLLOW ALL DIRECTION TO BE CONSIDERED**

BENEFITS (after 6 months of full time employment):
- Flexible working hours
- Philcare HMO Insurance
- Free products for content creation
- End of year performance bonus $$
- Raises based on skill/performance

We need a proactive, detail-oriented, and creative individual with the following skills:

Required Skills:
- Excellent Written English: Near-perfect grammar with experience crafting trendy, creative writing (puns, wordplay, etc.). Please do not apply if your written english is not excellent.
- Tech Requirements: Stable internet connection, a smartphone, and real-time communication capabilities. Backup internet is essential—connectivity issues won’t be accepted as excuses for delays.
- Design & Video Editing: Proficiency with Canva and basic video editing tools (e.g., Capcut) to create eye-catching designs and videos featuring captions, emojis, and transitions.
- Trend Awareness: A strong understanding of current trends in the mom/baby/parenting industry.
- Attention to Detail: Ability to follow instructions precisely, emulate our brand voice and tone, and deliver consistent, high-quality work.
- Problem Solver: Think outside the box and anticipate needs without waiting for instructions.
- Proactive Communication: Respond promptly and keep the team updated without requiring follow-ups.
- Trainable & Flexible: Eager to learn, multitask, and adapt to our fast-paced environment.

Job Responsibilities:

- Actively engage, reply, monitor, and create thoughtful social interaction within our communities across all social platforms.
- Maintaining our active social media presence on Instagram, Facebook
- Curating + creating images, videos, and graphics for our instagram
- Create and execute social media calendars based on promotions, and branded content releases.
- Reach out to influencers and partners for giveaways, content creation, and collaborations
- Create original content and source user-generated content relevant to the brand.
- Strategize ways to drive traffic to our website through social media and encourage follower growth across our platforms.
- Manage tagging products to support a shoppable Instagram experience.
- Managing and creating promotions, giveaways on our instagram and tiktok, and Email
- complete weekly, monthly, and quarterly social reporting, set goals and KPIs for continuous improvement.
- Growing our IG followers organically through strategies such as using hashtags, reels, daily engaging with other accounts + followers and other creative ways -- always willing to learn the most updated ways to organically grow our instagram and keeping up with trends
- Meta ads management (upon hire, will undergo a training program on how to execute ads)
- Execute email campaigns on mailchimp during promos
- Overall design/graphics as needed for our website, promotions, and monthly magazines
- During busy times, may help out on Customer Service tasks if necessary (i.e., answering customer queries via email).

We’re looking for a superstar overachiever. If your answer is yes to above responsibilities and you feel confident to be a master of most following tasks we'd love to hear from you! Strong work ethic a must, with openness to feedback as we have a very fast paced environment!

There is always room to grow in this position, and bonuses for excellent work performance. Hours are flexible but will be tracked on HubStaff tracking software and after training, you basically set your own schedule, but this is NOT an easy job even though hours are flexible. We are only looking for people that are serious and dedicated to their role and tea ---------- mbers that always go above and beyond their duties. This job is for people that are detail-oriented, dedicated, pro-active communicators, and able to perform under pressure and deadlines. If you have poor English grammar, DO NOT apply.

To apply:

1. Reply to this job posting and on the Subject of the email, write “Marketing OBB VA - Full-time”

2. In the details of your message, write your favorite quote and explain WHY it's your favorite quote.

3. Attach screenshot of your internet speed test showing the mbps and state your backup internet speed and method.

4. Attach samples of writing, design and past works to your application via either a google drive or a dropbox link. We prefer feminine/chic designs. Specifically, we are looking for social media management tasks previously completed, blogs, magazine, product, or graphic designs. Ensure your link is accessible

5. Choose one of our recent photos on Instagram (IG handle is ohbabyboxes) and write a MOCK up comment reply --DO NOT REPLY ON THE IG POST DIRECTLY, MOCK UP REPLY SUBMITTED W YOUR APP (provide the link of image you plan on replying to). Your reply should be engaging, and it should be a thoughtful reply comment. This is what you will be doing when you comment on other instagrams in the future to build engagement, so this mock up task is to showcase your ability to write thoughtful comments on other's instagram posts.

6. Curate 3 videos that you think would be relevant for our Instagram based on our current Instagram strategy, and write CAPTIONS for each video.

7. Attach a video editing sample (simple video editing similar to the reels on our IG where we add captions, emojis, etc to a product video).

8. Write a short paragraph product description for this item, make it relatable to a mom in their 3rd trimester: Pure Mama - Belly Oil (you can google this product to get to know the product first, then write your product description. Highlight what makes this product/company special in your description).

ChatGPT responses in your application will be automatically disqualified. While we support using GPT in our marketing work, for purposes of this application we want to see your own abilities.

2 MONTHS PROBATIONARY PERIOD where starting salary is $500/month, after 2 months wage will increase up to $650 (OR MORE) based on performance and skills with room for raises and yearly bonuses in the future

PLEASE NOTE: Applications missing any of the above elements will be automatically denied. Do NOT send follow ups outside of this job post. This is a demanding role for serious candidates who thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance environment and are hungry to learn new skills!