Social Media Manager - Justworks
New York City, NY
About the Job
Who We Are
At Justworks, you'll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We're helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We're data-driven and never stop iterating. If you'd like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we'd love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
If this sounds like you, you'll fit right in.
Who You Are
At Justworks, we empower small businesses and entrepreneurs to thrive. As Social Media Manager, your role is to bring their stories to life and showcase our brand's unique voice across digital platforms.
You'll be part of the Communications team, helping to craft and execute a forward-thinking social media strategy. You'll work on everything from tone of voice and content cadence to analytics and community management. Your mission is to connect with our audiences, spark engagement, and help grow the Justworks brand.
You are a self-starter, constantly in tune with social media trends, and always ready to adapt and innovate. Whether it's discovering new platform features, creating bold content, or responding swiftly to key moments, you know how to keep a brand relevant and resonant.
Your creativity shines, and you're equally comfortable digging into the data that drives performance. Most importantly, you're a collaborative team player who thrives on bringing cross-functional stories to the forefront.
Your Success Profile
What You Will Work On
- Develop and Execute Social Media Strategy: Lead the creation and implementation of a robust social media strategy that aligns with Justworks' broader communications and marketing goals, ensuring a consistent voice across platforms.
- Content Creation & Curation: Develop engaging, on-brand content that resonates with small business owners, HR professionals, and other target audiences, including posts, stories, and videos for platforms like: Linkedin, Instagram, X, and more. You will own the content calendar and scheduling and publishing of content.
- Community Engagement: Foster a strong social media presence by building relationships with key audiences, drive meaningful interactions, and manage and grow Justworks' brand following.
- Crisis Management & Social Listening: Monitor social platforms for potential issues, escalating when necessary, and proactively engage in social listening to identify opportunities for brand engagement and reputation management.
- Collaboration with Internal Teams: Partner with Creative, Growth Marketing, Product Marketing, People team, and Customer Support to align messaging, campaigns, and goals across channels, ensuring a unified voice.
- Social Media Tools & Innovation: Stay informed of emerging social media trends, tools, and best practices to recommend and implement new approaches that enhance engagement and performance.
- Analytics & Reporting: Measure, analyze, and report on social media performance, using data-driven insights to continuously optimize content, engagement, and overall strategy.
How You Will Do Your Work
As Social Media Manager, how results are achieved is paramount for your success. The creation of systems and scalable processes is critical for this role, as is working cross-functionally across Marketing (e.g., Content, Events, Creative, etc.) and other parts of the company (e.g., People Team, Sales). In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
- Business insight - Understand how social media fits within Justworks' broader marketing and brand strategy and marketplace dynamics. Functional expertise - Demonstrate deep knowledge of social media best practices, platform capabilities, and trends.
- Curiosity and Innovation - Constantly seek to learn, grow, and improve—whether through new tools, trends, or tactics.
- Good judgment - Navigate complex situations with thoughtful decision-making and the ability to act quickly and strategically; identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks, developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
- Clear communication - Use effective communication skills to articulate ideas and feedback, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams.
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day, you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You're an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You're curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You're committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You're honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5-7 years of proven experience in social media strategy, content creation, and community management at an agency or on an in-house team (B2B or tech preferred, but not required for in-house)
- Experience building social media strategy, content calendars, campaigns, and social listening/community management
- Experience working cross-functionally to ensure consistency of brand guidelines and messaging, including collaboration with creative teams to deliver briefs and feedback loops
- Strong understanding of the social media space including platform-specific communities, conversations, and trends
- Ability to multi-task and execute top-notch work against tight deadlines
- Creative thinker who comes to the table with trend-driven content ideas
- Experience with scheduling and analytics tools including Sprout Social
- Eager to stay up to date on social media trends, best practices, and tech updates (platforms, features, etc.)
- Solution-oriented "get to yes" attitude and extreme attention to detail
- Proven success as a team player and creative collaborator
- Ability to help cultivate, contribute to, and foster a high performing/high impact team
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $122,000.00 - $134,200.00 per year.
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Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.
For more information about Justworks' Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.
Diversity At Justworks
Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.
We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.
