Responsibilities

• Team leadership
• Manage and coach a small team of meme creators, including output expectations, editorial judgment, and platform execution.
• Lead brainstorming that reliably produces effective content.
• Ensure that creators are hitting posting quotas and deadlines, and meeting post engagement expectations on platforms such as Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, X, etc.
• Editorial leadership
• Translate campaign goals into clear briefs, daily direction, and weekly plans.
• Run editorial meetings and rapid-response decision-making tied to the news cycle.
• Set a practical “quality” bar and a feedback loop so memes consistently align with client messaging and intent.
• Meme creation
• Craft original content catered to various social media platforms (Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Reels, Bluesky, etc.) that is funny, relatable, and aligns with client briefs.
• Write witty, hilarious, and relatable copy for social media posts across platforms, ensuring it seamlessly reflects client goals

Requirements

• Experience: 6+ years in social editorial, meme media, culture-led publishing, or political digital, including 3+ years managing a small team of social creators in a fast-moving environment.
• Editorial judgment: Extremely strong news judgment and a demonstrated ability to operate in fast news cycles, including live coverage playbooks (elections, SOTU, debates, breaking news) and availability outside typical hours when needed.
• Reddit expertise: Deep Reddit fluency, including subreddit norms, posting strategy, and community dynamics.
• Audience development: Proven ability to drive organic growth through distribution strategy, marketing, and social media strategy, and thoughtful experimentation (hypotheses, testing, iteration).
• Creative execution: Proven track record producing engaging memes and social content; quick, witty creative mindset with strong ideation skills; ability to stay on-message for clients and maintain a consistent brand voice.
• Writing: Excellent writing skills, with a demonstrated ability to craft engaging, funny, clean social copy aligned to a brand voice.
• Design capability: Proficient in meme creation and production tools (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Canva) and comfortable using AI tools responsibly.
• Platforms: Deep knowledge of established and emerging platforms and how content performs across them (Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, TikTok/Reels, etc.), including multi-account operations and awareness of account authenticity constraints.
• Analytics literacy: Comfortable using analytics outputs to evaluate performance and translate insights into editorial and distribution actions (not necessarily building dashboards).
• Operating style: Highly organized, able to juggle multiple priorities and deadlines, and agile in a small-team environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience $100,000 - $140,000.
• Full health insurance coverage and dental/vision benefits.
• 401k retirement savings plan with company match.
• Generous paid vacation and 14 annual company holidays.
• Monthly wellness stipend.