Bilingual Social Media Manager (English/Italian)

QNY Creative is looking to add an additional Bilingual Social Media Manager to our social team to support the agency's growing team and rapid growth. We’re seeking a candidate that speaks English and Italian fluently, with a genuine passion for Food & Beverages, experience in an agency setting, and a deep understanding of the ins and outs of media and influencer relations, account management, content strategy, and social media management intimately.

Requires an immediate start date from the accepted offer.

Want to join a fast-growing team? We'll give you the opportunity to make an impact, take responsibility, learn, and interact. The ideal candidate is constantly reading and posting images & videos about food, is an avid home cook, and is super proactive in identifying new approaches to creating narratives. They would be on the pulse of what the world is cooking, from trending ingredients and techniques to being able to identify the best new content creators, both professional and amateur. They are able to uphold a consistent visual and written brand voice across all social platforms while identifying how to best strategically create and distribute engaging content for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Pinterest.

The position is based in NYC in Manhattan, Midtown East. In Office Position.

Your karma?

You are open-minded, an innovator.

You are creative and a digital-native.

You have strong attention to detail.

You are dynamic and proactive, able to work effectively independently.

You are very collaborative, while also being results-oriented.

You are energetic, flexible, and able to adapt and evolve in a rapidly changing environment.

You want to develop beautiful, stimulating, engaging content.

You like to get out of your comfort zone (where the magic happens).

To Apply

Submit your resume, cover letter to: [email protected] - addressed to QNY's Director of Social Media, explaining why you're passionate about the Food & Beverages industry and why you're the right fit for this role.

• In your resume, please include links to social media accounts you have worked on and/or a portfolio of relevant work. Include social strategies, case studies that highlight channel growth and engagement KPIs you've worked on, and details of your relevant influencer experience and reporting capabilities.

Daily Activities:

• Develop, implement and manage client’s social media strategy across platforms and interact with members of our team.
• Work with clients and teams to establish overarching social media strategies, goals, programming ideas, content plans, creative plans, etc. with an emphasis on Facebook and Instagram for our client's pages.
• Management of multiple brand content calendars and quarterly/annual planning and strategic review
• Content writing, ideation and story ideas aligned with content strategy
• Define the most important social media KPIs for clients across channels and measure the success of their social media account growth and engagement.
• Work to curate content throughout all of the client’s social channels, including art approvals. Plan and schedule content in advance. Collaborate with account directors and design team to ensure all content is ready and on schedule
• Research new social media trends and hashtags and stay up to date with the latest social media best practices and technologies
• Track and analyze KPI’s and provide content optimization recommendations.
• Develop overarching media and influencer strategies
• Engage with client’s social media channels on a daily basis, responding to questions, referring customer service inquiries to clients, checking direct messages, engaging with other pages and influencers, etc.
• Skills at growing social pages fans, followers, subscribers.
• Manage Social Media looped Give-a-Ways.
• Ongoing tracking of social media analytics and development of weekly, monthly other periodic social media results reports (knowledge of Google Data Studio, a plus)
• Analyze social media follower growth and engagement, making actionable recommendations to management and clients as to how to improve
• Implement organic and paid campaigns across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, and TikTok
• Manage budget for paid promotions.
• Weigh in on social strategy for sponsored campaigns and analyze performance - apply learnings to future campaigns/programs
• Help the team in understanding and maintaining brand voice
• Approve all social copy (you will be writing a lot of it as well)
• Ideate content packages and see them through execution
• Interface with content creators and influencers.

Requirements:

• 1-2 years in a social media role with a food brand, ideally in food media.
• Fluency in both English and Italian is required.
• Experience writing social media copy and designing layouts for social content, ability to shoot compelling photography and *video footage on iPhone or DSLR (not edit) is a major plus
• Bachelor's degree in PR, marketing, journalism, communications or a related area of study
• You have an exceptionally strong background in paid social. You have a track record of designing and executing social media strategies and campaigns that achieve high levels of engagement among targeted audiences (please show us examples). You’re an expert in all the tools of the trade, especially Facebook ad optimization.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to manage tasks between multiple teams and prioritize team needs
• Deadline-driven, meticulous, and highly organized
• Self-starter, proactive, ability to prioritize and shift focus with ease and flexibility - you are excited to dive in, build quickly and drive output.
• Cool under pressure and flexible
• Willingness to pitch in on various tasks throughout the company, even when outside of direct job description.