Marketing and Community Manager

New York City, NY (On-site)

$65K/yr – $75K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 12 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive VITAL marketing, events, partnerships, and community engagement initiatives across campaigns, content creation, branding, and cross‑promotions.

  • Lead multi‑channel marketing and events planning
  • Build partnerships and sponsor outreach

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and support marketing strategies that grow brand awareness, promote gym offerings, and strengthen the VITAL community.
  • Plan and execute marketing campaigns, gym initiatives, and events through social media, newsletters, in-gym flyers, website updates, and other promotional channels.
  • Manage and grow facility social media accounts, including feed posts, stories, comments, DMs, customer questions, and community engagement.
  • Create photo, video, written, and graphic content that supports marketing campaigns, events, apparel launches, and gym programming.
  • Maintain a consistent VITAL brand voice and visual style across social media, newsletters, flyers, signage, website content, photography, video, and other promotional materials.
  • Design, update, and maintain facility signage, flyers, promotional graphics, and other in-gym marketing materials.
  • Keep the VITAL website accurate, up to date, and aligned with current programs, events, campaigns, and facility needs.
  • Plan, organize, and project-manage events, including competitions, community meetups, special events, and other member-facing initiatives.
  • Coordinate staff support for events, campaigns, and marketing projects as needed.
  • Collaborate with operations leadership and the cross-facility marketing team to support local and regional initiatives.

Requirements

  • Experience creating marketing content for social media, email, print, and web.
  • Strong writing, editing, and communication skills.
  • Experience with photography, videography, graphic design, or basic content editing.
  • Comfort using tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Mailchimp, Squarespace, or similar platforms.
  • Ability to manage social media accounts, including posts, stories, comments, messages, and customer responses.
  • Strong organization and project management skills.
  • Experience planning, promoting, or supporting events.
  • Ability to maintain brand standards across written, visual, and digital materials.
  • Comfort tracking SEO, basic marketing, social media, or event performance data.
  • Ability to work with staff, members, businesses, and community partners.

Benefits

  • Salary position $65k – $75k
  • Structured wage increases
  • 401K matching
  • Health insurance programs
  • Internal benefit programs
  • PTO
  • Mental health program
  • Employee membership with access to all programs and classes
  • Friends and family benefits
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Climbing Business Journal

Climbing Business Journal is the leading source for news, research and analysis of the indoor climbing industry. www.climbingbusinessjournal.com

Founded in 2013
Boulder, Colorado, USA
9 employees (9 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
41.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.9%
Direct
38.6%
Referral
5%
Social
2.6%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~9

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (89% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

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