Temporary Assistant Social Media Editor

New York City, NY (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New Grad1+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Summary

You will own the end-to-end social media program for House Beautiful, driving audience growth and editorial-aligned storytelling across platforms, while analyzing performance and collaborating with editorial, art, commerce, and photo teams.

  • Own and implement cross-platform social strategy and content calendar
  • Publish engaging social content aligned with editorial voice and deadlines
  • Analyze performance and share actionable insights to optimize strategy

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to House Beautiful's cross-platform social media strategy to grow audience engagement and brand reach across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and emerging platforms.
  • Develop and maintain the social media content calendar while supporting promotional plans for editorial initiatives, features, and launches.
  • Create, schedule, and publish compelling social content that aligns with House Beautiful's editorial voice, visual standards, and deadlines.
  • Monitor platform performance, analyze engagement metrics, and share actionable insights to help optimize content strategy.
  • Collaborate with editorial, art, commerce, and photo teams to develop creative, social-first storytelling initiatives.
  • Identify emerging social trends, formats, and platform features, and recommend opportunities to keep House Beautiful's content fresh and competitive.
  • Utilize social publishing and analytics tools, including TrueAnthem, Parse.ly, and Dash Hudson, to inform programming decisions and improve performance.

Requirements

  • 1+ years of experience managing or supporting social media content for a media brand, publisher, or comparable digital environment.
  • Strong editorial judgment with excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
  • Passion for home, interior design, lifestyle, and digital storytelling.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of major social platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and emerging channels.
  • Experience using or the ability to quickly learn tools such as TrueAnthem, Parse.ly, Dash Hudson, or similar social publishing and analytics platforms.
  • Creative mindset with an eye for engaging visual and social-first content.
  • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  • Curious, adaptable, and eager to experiment with new social trends and formats.
  • This is a remote position.
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Hearst

3.7 Glassdoor

As one of the nation’s largest global, diversified information, services and media companies, Hearst has been leading with purpose and integrity and innovating for more than a century. With a mission to inform audiences and improve lives, the company’s portfolio includes global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; Hearst Transportation, which includes CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing the maintenance of jets and helicopters; 35 television stations; 24 daily and 52 weekly newspapers; more than 200 magazine editions around the world and ownership in cable television networks A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN. Leading with purpose, Hearst is always moving forward. With a commitment to the highest quality in our products and services, we’re investing in healthcare solutions to help improve patient outcomes and technology that curbs emissions. Our brands are providing vital analysis, data and software to the global financial services industry; delivering important service and investigative journalism; and inspiring audiences with sports and entertainment programming. And we are dedicated to serving the communities it operates in, both civically and philanthropically.

Founded in 1981
New York, New York, USA
6.4K employees (1,993 in marketing)
65% recommend to a friend
78% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
344.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
27.6%
Direct
56.2%
Referral
13%
Social
2.4%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,455 (23% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7