Social Content Creator (Contract)

Who we are:

Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us.

We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet—and at Rover, our mission is to make it easier to experience that love. Founded in 2011, the Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe. We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses on Rover with the tools and security of a global company to back them.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with our teams in Barcelona, London, San Antonio, Spokane and remote locations. We’ve got a reputation for being a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. We're an agile, fast-growing company, and our leadership comes from some of the world's most respected tech companies.

At Rover, our furry coworkers are just as important as our human ones—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Along with making the joys of pet parenthood more accessible, we’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet people—and that starts with our employees.

Who we’re looking for:

Does your love for pets know no bounds? Are you a fearless creative—a social media producer fluent in cultural trends and looking to build a mission-driven brand? Then we want to talk to you!

We’re looking for a part-time social media professional to support Rover’s global social publishing team by sourcing and producing original content, with a focus on video content for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts. You’ll play an integral role in telling our brand’s story and fostering meaningful connections with pet parents and sitters around the world. You’ll write smart and clever captions and produce pet-centric content for social channels. You’ll help Rover grow its positive word of mouth by celebrating the unique bonds we share with our pets through funny, smart, and “yep, that’s me” social content.

Sitting on Rover’s Brand Marketing team and reporting into the Manager of Social & Community, this role contributes to our social publishing strategies, produces original and curated content (static, video, and written), and schedules it across social media channels. In this role, you’ll partner with a small powerhouse team to showcase our vibrant community, tell weird and wonderful stories about people and their pets, and introduce the Rover brand in short-form content across all our social channels. Candidates should be creative and inventive social media pioneers: people who know how to navigate social platforms and creative tools and can help us raise the bar on our social media program.

This role is for a ~20 hours/week, 6-month+ contract position.

Your responsibilities:

• Identify and monitor seasonal and cultural trends to concept, produce, and publish content that brings Rover to the forefront of those conversations.
• Reactively respond to relevant trends in real-time with creative pet content.
• Manage a day-to-day social production schedule focused on Instagram Reels and TikTok, including designing and developing content, scheduling posts, and applying best publishing practices (formatting, tagging, etc.).
• Create fast, digestible content on your mobile device for short-form videos, reels, stories, etc.
• Apply your social expertise to create strategies and executions to light up engagement while bringing the Rover brand to life.
• Collaborate closely with team members across the organization, including Marketing and PR, to drive awareness.
• Actively participate in cross-team brainstorms and planning sessions to develop fresh ideas for channel content and campaigns.
• Track and report against social media goals, objectives, and content performance.
• Serve as a steward of Rover’s brand. For this role, you must be comfortable being in Rover’s videos, and positively representing the company.

Your qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience supporting social media programs.
• 3+ years producing highly-engaging original social media content including video editing.
• Demonstrated success translating cultural and seasonal trends into engaging social media content.
• Excellent understanding of best practices across Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, YouTube, and Twitter.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment making quick and sound judgment calls.
• Understands how to bring a brand to life with creative social media content.
• Demonstrated success in developing and implementing social media programs that drive broad reach and engagement among consumers.
• Excellent skills in managing ambiguity with a strong bias toward action.
• Innovative and creative, with an indefatigable passion for pets.
• Empathy toward pet parents and pet sitters.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong sense of personal accountability and drive to support the Rover community.

Compensation:

• In Washington State the hourly range is $27.63-$36.34 per hour.
• The cash compensation offered for this role will be dependent on the candidate's experience, qualifications, skills and abilities as demonstrated in the interview and hiring process.

Rover is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive and inventive environment with the best employees. We’re driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, and we work to ensure everyone contributes to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

We are committed to work with you to look for reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.