Act as the brand manager for your state newsroom’s social presence, ensuring consistency in tone, voice, and visual identity across platforms.
Manage the state social content calendar, ensuring coordination between product, creative, marketing, underwriting, and event teams to align with larger marketing and distribution goals.
Analyze audience data and engagement metrics to refine content strategies and improve reach.
Develop and execute localized social strategies that align with Courier’s talent-driven content model to achieve measurable audience growth and engagement goals.
Collaborate directly with talent to shape and promote their digital products across social media to achieve measurable audience growth and engagement goals.
Serve as in-house social experts with demonstrated ability to stay ahead of platform trends and develop innovative ways to amplify content across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and other relevant platforms.
Optimize social-first content for engagement, ensuring it resonates with local audiences and converts new followers into loyal readers.
Test new content formats and social media tactics to continuously improve performance and audience growth.
Requirements
Insatiable curiosity—you see stories everywhere and love making content feel relevant and engaging.
Deep cultural awareness—you stay tapped into trends, niche communities, and online conversations.
Strong platform fluency—you know how to optimize content for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and more.
A strategic mindset—you think beyond just posting; you consider audience psychology and platform behavior.
Cross-functional collaboration skills—you’re comfortable working across departments to align content with larger marketing, brand, and editorial goals.
Content calendar management experience—you’re highly organized and know how to balance different content priorities while keeping workflows efficient.
A mission-driven approach—you are politically aware and passionate about using social media to engage audiences on the issues that matter that align with COURIER values and company-wide objectives.
Based in Arizona (required).
ATS Keywords
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Hard skills
social media managementcontent strategyaudience analysiscontent optimizationcontent calendar managementengagement metrics analysissocial-first content developmentplatform trend analysiscontent format testinglocalized social strategies