CreativeMornings Content Manager
July 2023
What is CreativeMornings?
CreativeMornings is the worldâs largest face-to-face, creative community. A beloved organization that gathers 20k creatives online and in-person in 200+ cities and 68+ countries, every month, for free. Our events are volunteer-led and fueled by radical generosity. Since 2008, CreativeMornings has provided an accessible and loving place for creative communities around the world to meet-up: to learn, to connect, and to get inspired.
We are hiring a Content Manager.
CreativeMornings is run by 1,000 volunteers and a full-time HQ of 9 big-hearted humans. This small but mighty HQ team, mostly Brooklyn-based, is looking for a full-time Content Manager to join our team. In this exciting role, youâll set the tone for CreativeMorningsâ global voice, selecting and writing about topics that will nourish and inspire our community of ~250K newsletter readers. As our Content Manager, you are responsible for curating and writing our beloved newsletter, our theme descriptions, and managing the content and social calendars for CreativeMornings and CreativeMorningsâ partners.
If your friends and family were to ask what you do for a living, they could sign-up for our weekly newsletter and follow along on your adventures! (You can see at the bottom of our newsletters how our current Content Manager, Annie, signs them off in a very personal way. We are certain your people would be proud to see your name there, too!)
Are you our person?
Youâre an ideal candidate for this role if your professional love language is the written word, and you write irresistible copy that inspires and delights. If you consider yourself insatiably curious, and are an omnivorous consumer-of and sharer-of intriguing curios and experiences across the internet. If you thrive on the responsibility of lifting-up creative makers and thinkers to our audience, and if you comfortably discern (from the many recommendations we get) which content would be resonant, nourishing, and useful to our community. If these âifsâ are you, then you may be our person!
You also have what it takes to be a super organized, strategic product manager/digital marketer, who is excited to use data and analytics to help shape the next generation of our beloved newsletter. (It has a 34% open rate and is the highest-value touch point in the CM universe for 25-30% of our ~500k community members). In this role youâll be able to shape new ways our content can create connection and inspiration for our community.
Responsibilities
— Have or develop a vision for the newsletter and CreativeMorningsâ web and social platforms, and how to utilize them to create connection and inspiration in our community.
— Curate the contents of our global Weekly Highlights newsletter, drawing upon: talks and content from our chapter cities, recommendations sent to us by community members, content found in the wilds of the internet, other networks of creative humans.
— Design and execute inclusive content marketing strategies for CreativeMorningsâ platforms, to both grow and reflect our global community.
— Produce content weekly, most often in writing but with occasional visual components.
— Develop and manage an editorial calendar that supports growth, community engagement, product support, and partner initiatives.
— Research, formulate and execute CreativeMorningsâ channel strategies (email, social) to support our community, chapter cities and partners, while honoring our values and navigating platforms in transition.
— Collect, monitor, and analyze meaningful analytics from all content channels and shareback growth metrics to the CreativeMornings HQ team.
— Actively participate in CreativeMornings/New York chapter events, including event announcements, event pages, and reminder and recap emails.
— Ensure all content is on-brand, consistent in terms of style, quality and tone of voice, and optimized for all distribution channels.
— Ensure all content is on-brand, consistent in terms of style, quality and tone of voice, and optimized for all distribution channels.
This job is for you if you …
— Excel at writing, curating, and communicating.
— Love working on small teams with big-hearted humans.
— Are comfortable working independently, preferably in a Brooklyn-based hybrid environment, possibly remotely.
— Understand what it takes to make friends with colleagues and community, and build relationships with external collaborators.
— Are resourceful and curious, and arenât afraid to take initiative.
— Have empathy and thoughtfulness as core strengths.
— Gravitate towards systems thinking, always looking to improve a work flow or process.
You will also have:
— At least 6-8 years experience working in an aligned role (marketing, editorial, digital content, publishing, research, content curation, journalism).
— A willingness and ability to get up to speed fast with the tools we use daily to work: Mailchimp, Buffer, Slack, Google Documents, Keynote, Basecamp, Notion, Dropmark, Dropbox, etc.
— A heart-forward collaboration style, focused on supporting staff and collaborators with respect and compassion.
— The proper authorization to work in the United States.
What you can expect:
Working at CreativeMornings is an opportunity to work in service of the global creative community.
You are an ideal candidate if, in your heart, you believe that we collectively have to partake in calling-in a more loving, more generous, more community-minded future. This role is meaningful and influential, and requires a big heart and a lot of thought and care.
CreativeMornings HQ is a small organization and we support our employees by providing fair pay, by offering a generous vacation policy, and by providing a range of benefits including health and dental insurance. We also offer an annual professional development stipend, Summer Fridays, and a 401k employee retirement plan.
Our founder Tina Roth Eisenberg believes that work should be a playground and school for your future self. She believes that work has the power to positively shape and impact society by creating an environment that is nourishing and makes its employees feel seen, appreciated and heard. Tina believes that companies have a responsibility to create a kind, joyful professional environment; CreativeMornings is her living experiment to do just that.
The salary range for this role, dependent on your experience, is $65,000-$85,000.
We believe in diversity.
Inclusivity is a core tenet of CreativeMornings. We convene spaces with the guiding principle: âEveryone is welcome,â and that carries over to our workspace and hiring process. We are an equal opportunity employer and believe diversity at our company is not only a strength, but a superpower. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
How to apply.
If the idea of being the Content Manager at CreativeMornings makes your heart sing, we canât wait to hear from you! You can complete an application here. The application has a few pieces - expect to be asked for:
— PDF versions of your resume and cover letter.
— Existing writing samples (professional or personal) that feel aligned with our community.
— 3 links you would choose for our newsletter, with the in-line copy akin to our Fun Things to Click On (nope, weâre not going to use these â you can post them, when you join us!)
— A link to a 30 second video of you explaining what you would contribute to this position.
— Your CreativeMornings profile link. Donât have one yet? You can create one!
This job posting will close at 11:59pm US-Eastern on Monday, July 24th.