Handshake is the number one site for college students to find a job. Today, the Handshake community includes 17 million students and young alumni at over 1,000 colleges and universities — including 120+ minority-serving institutions. We connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with nearly 500,000 employers recruiting on Handshake — from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is democratizing opportunity and ensuring college students have the support they need to find a great job and kick-off a meaningful career regardless of where they go to school, what they choose as a major, and who they know.

We welcome all people. We celebrate diversity of all kinds and are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We seek to hire, develop and retain talented people from all backgrounds. Individuals from non-traditional backgrounds, historically marginalized or underrepresented groups strongly encouraged to apply.

If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but up for the challenge - we want you to apply.

Your Impact:

Handshake is hiring a strategic, creative Corporate Social & Editorial Manager to engage our employer, university, and corporate audiences through social media and editorial content. Your goal will be to grow our pipelines and engagement with our brand among employers and higher education leaders, as well as attract top talent to Handshake. You’ll manage our LinkedIn, Twitter, corporate blog, and other corporate social platforms to raise brand awareness and increase Handshake’s category leadership.  You’ll envision and write compelling content that deeply engages our audiences, bringing Handshake’s brand, value, and impact to life.  You’ll curate and manage our corporate social channels, in partnership with our Employer, Education, and Talent teams.

Your Role:

• Be the writer, editor, curator, and coordinator of corporate editorial content and social media channels
• Translate company objectives into an editorial, content, and social-marketing strategy 
• Partner with Content Marketing and Growth Marketing teams across the business to engage our social media audiences and encourage conversions and engagement
• Own content calendar that will inspire and engage audiences throughout the year
• Actively respond to and engage with our audiences or influencers
• Increase # of social followers and drive new leads, complementing marketing efforts 
• Leverage user insights to drive content and channel strategy
• Create a wide range of content types in partnership with our brand design team: video, articles, social, and more
• Have a “test and learn” mindset, quickly trying and validating content types
• Measure, track, and optimize performance via data-driven decision-making
• Build and optimize content creation and publishing processes

Your Experience:

• 4+ years of experience with 2 years leading social and content channels
• Experience targeting a range of audiences, ideally business (B2B) and consumer (B2C)
• Exceptional writer, ideally with expertise engaging employer or higher ed audiences
• Expertise using content marketing tools and platforms: CMS; social media mgt/listening
• Experience creating many types of content: articles, video, short format, infographics
• Able to measure, understand, and communicate the impact of content and social efforts
• Exceptional communication, presentation and interpersonal skills 
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, data-driven environment
• Strong project skills; drive from insight to ideation to execution
• Prior experience at a consumer technology, e-commerce or edtech company preferred
• NOTE: please submit 3 writing / content samples with your application

Benefits:

• Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
• 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future.
• Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
• Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
• Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies.
• Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
• Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, sports, game nights, book clubs.
• Learning: Learning & Development opportunities for you to grow your skills and career.
• Great team: Working with fun, hardworking, nice people who are committed to making a difference!
• ...And much more!

We value diversity of all kinds, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.