Night & Weekends Social Media Engagement Specialist (Contractor)

Birmingham, MI (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New GradContract

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Own community engagement for a brand’s social channels, driving reactive moderation and proactive conversations to maximize engagement and protect brand voice.

  • Own first-touch response and triage across Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, and brand inbox.
  • Must-have: 2+ years consumer-facing marketing or 1.5+ years managing online communities.
  • Standout: Familiarity with Sprinklr or similar community tools and quick escalation workflow.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Community moderation and monitoring
  • Reactive and proactive engagement between a brand and its online communities
  • Guide and create meaningful social media conversations
  • Apply expertise of channel and social media nuances and community members’ online behaviors to optimize channel engagement or workflows
  • Provide insight and recommendations to client and internal team on how to optimize for max community engagement
  • Share any trends/flags with internal team to share with the client
  • Identify and flag UGC the brand can potentially leverage as organic or ad posts
  • Using a third-party tool, you will be responsible for assigning, evaluating, responding, and escalating per client-provided engagement guidelines, including:
  • First-touch reactive response and triage of inbound comments, mentions, page posts on the brand’s Facebook, X, Instagram and their Inbox, and TikTok channels
  • Removing or flagging spam and inappropriate community posts as defined in the engagement guidelines
  • Escalating customer service inquiries to the customer care team
  • Swift identification, risk assessment, and escalation of potential HR or PR issues
  • Engaging with customized positive comments using the appropriate brand voice
  • Contributes to the ongoing optimization of community engagement strategy
  • Ensures proper execution of community engagement strategies
  • Pays attention to any inconsistencies or issues within the social media tool and escalates
  • Collaborates with internal team to ensure overall client goals and objectives are met

Requirements

  • Must be open and available to work a mix of 7-9 PM EST shifts any day of the week, along with up to 8 hours on Saturdays and/or Sundays between the hours of 9 AM – 5 PM EST.
  • 2+ years of experience in consumer-facing marketing (agency experience a plus) OR 1.5+ years’ experience managing online communities for consumer brands (retail experience a plus)
  • Professional experience using social media platforms for brands (Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok)
  • Experience with third-party community engagement tools (e.g., Sprinklr, Social Studio, Hootsuite, Emplifi, HootSuite, etc.)
  • All work scheduled and completed based on Eastern Standard Time
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Extremely focused and organized
  • Patience and empathy—customer care is a large part of this role
  • Ability to move at a fast pace without sacrificing attention to detail
  • Ability to follow defined workflows independently

Preferred

  • Familiarity with Sprinklr would be beneficial to this role
  • Customer support, reactive experience, and familiarity with Sprinklr would be beneficial to this role.
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Welcome to Ignite Social Media – The Original Social Media Agency®. We’ve combined strategists, content developers, community managers, media buyers, influencer managers and analytics specialists to form a unique team focused exclusively on social media marketing for companies with national and international reach. Together, we keep up with trends, filter the noise, and help companies like yours put social media to work.Founded in 2007 as the first social media agency in the United States, we've helped some of the world's top brands develop effective social media marketing campaigns and programs, including Microsoft, Samsung, Nike, Peeps, Crisco and many more. In 2025, we were named a Best Place to Work nationally by both Ad Age and Ragan PR Week.

Founded in 2007
Cary, North Carolina, USA
63 employees (30 in marketing)

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