Social Content Specialist

North Mankato, MN (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive engaging social content and end-to-end giveaways for brand campaigns across platforms, combining hands-on creation, community growth, and data-driven optimization.

  • Own end-to-end social content creation across Instagram, TikTok, and Shorts.
  • Must-have: CapCut and Canva editing plus on-camera brand representation.
  • Standout: End-to-end giveaway management with EasyPromos and compliance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • create engaging content across platforms while building strong, positive brand energy.
  • collaborate on ideas, lead creative projects, and help grow brands through photos, reels, and social selling strategies.
  • Plan and execute social media giveaways end-to-end for licensor promotions, brand partnerships, and seasonal holiday campaigns.
  • Manage all phases of giveaway execution: campaign setup and rules, promotion strategy, winner selection, product fulfillment, shipping coordination, and cost tracking.
  • Utilize platforms such as EasyPromos to build, run, and report on giveaway campaigns with accuracy and compliance.
  • Collaborate with UGC/IGC partners to produce authentic, engaging content.
  • Integrate UGC and IGC assets into the broader content calendar, ensuring seamless alignment with campaign goals and brand voice
  • Analyze performance metrics across platforms and use data to continuously refine content formats, post cadence, and engagement tactics.
  • Stay current with the ever-evolving social media landscape, including platform algorithm changes, trending formats, audio trends, and content best practices.
  • Rapidly adapt content strategy in response to trend cycles, identifying opportunities to insert the brand into relevant cultural conversations in an authentic way.

Requirements

  • Develop high-quality, platform-optimized short-form video content tailored to audience behavior across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and other relevant Platforms.
  • Appear on camera as a brand representative and creative director — comfortable both in front of and behind the lens, directing talent and executing concepts with confidence.
  • Produce engaging, on-brand content across all formats: graphics, photography, video, and written posts, ensuring consistent alignment with brand voice and marketing goals.
  • Edit content to a high standard using CapCut and Canva, delivering polished assets ready for multi-platform publishing.
  • Grow our social media following through proactive community building, strategic outreach, and meaningful audience engagement.
  • Manage daily social media activity using scheduling and management tools such as Hootsuite, including post scheduling, comment monitoring, and engagement responses.
  • Leverage social comments, DMs, and community interactions as an active channel for outreach, relationship building, and brand advocacy.
  • Monitor social listening channels to continuously gather insights on audience sentiment, emerging industry trends, and competitor activity — translating findings into actionable content strategy.
  • Stay current with the ever-evolving social media landscape, including platform algorithm changes, trending formats, audio trends, and content best practices.
  • Rapidly adapt content strategy in response to trend cycles, identifying opportunities to insert the brand into relevant cultural conversations in an authentic way.

Preferred

  • 4 Year college degree preferred but not required (communications, marketing, advertising, PR, etc...)
  • Experience selling via social media preferred