Description
Come and join a two-year-old, growing, e-commerce company specializing in fashion, homewares, tabletop and gifts. The Avenue is a female-led business that has led the market in online retail with distinctive content creation, cutting edge marketing strategies and a unique platform highlighting other small businesses, artisans and creatives around the world. Joining the business at this stage offers potential for significant opportunity as The Avenue continues to scale and create new verticals for growth. We are a bootstrapped company based in the Houston area. Within a few fast-paced years, we’ve built a multi-million dollar brand with 15 full-time employees.
As a part-time Social Media & Marketing assistant, this opportunity is designed for individuals seeking to pivot to a growing start-up with the ability to maintain a full-time job, other part-time roles and freelance jobs. The role will require work on weeknights and weekends to help drive sales to the website. This role will work directly with the marketing team and report to the director. Talents, skill sets and work ethic will be assessed to transition the part-time role (8-20 hours) into full-time should the business’s needs and the candidate’s skill sets align. This position can be done entirely remote but local Houston candidates could have the opportunity for more hands-on work and internal growth within other departments. Experience in social media, marketing, and graphic design is highly favorable. We are looking to fill this role ASAP.
Requirements
The Social Media Assistant will be responsible for supporting the weeknight and weekend social media story posting to drive sales for the site and responding to DMs. The assistants are responsible for a working knowledge of The Avenue aesthetic and branding, products and posting cadence to maintain the @shoptheavenue and @lyndseyzorich marketing presence and expectations of our following and clientele. The associates will report directly to the marketing team and work alongside other assistants to support the overall mission of cutting edge marketing, unique content creation and compelling visual story-telling across both social channels.
We are seeking candidates to support posting for 1-2 hours on weeknights and a total of 10-12 hours on weekends. Preparation in advance could limit the execution/time needed during these hours, but the individual can expect to be working within the 8-10p CST timeframe Monday-Friday and periodically throughout the weekends (7a-10p Saturday & Sunday) for a total of 10-12 hours and with time, experience and optimizing efficiency, less hours. We are seeking as many candidates as needed to fill these windows, so you are encouraged to apply if you have availability for even part of these timeframes.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Creating unique story slides for weeknight and weekend story posts on @shoptheavenue & @lyndseyzorich stories.
- Contribute content ideas to support sales and business initiatives.
- Contribute recurring blog posts linking product.
- Assist in organization of assets and documentation of content.
- Support customer care within direct messages.
- Identify content creators for seasonal social initiatives.
- Engage on social media with comments, likes.
REQUIREMENTS
- Knowledge and interest on social media trends.
- Experience on Canva, Photoshop and Instagram design apps and/or desire to learn and train is a must.
- Seeking someone with a creative mindset.
- Strong interest in the fashion + retail industry and story-telling.
- Strong attention to detail, reliable, organized and proactive.
- Passionate about design, marketing and content creation.
- Strong writing, communication and grammar skills.
- A self-starter.
- Available on weeknights (8-10p CST) and weekends periodically throughout the day to execute on posting strategy.
Benefits
- The compensation for this role is dependent on experience level and will be based on meeting sales goal.
- This role will offer The Avenue employee discount for all merchandise.
- We are looking for candidates to onboard ASAP to train ahead of the busy holiday season.