Athena Global Advisors is hiring: Creator, Social in Philadelphia

About Athena

Athena is a marketing consultancy where ideas are activated. With a blend of strategic thinking, creative vision, and hands-on execution, we partner with organizations looking to transform their presence, reputation, and performance. For over ten years, we’ve delivered business insights, marketing strategies, and brand activations for leading organizations in industries ranging from telecommunications to major league sports.

Our people make Athena, Athena. They’re what help set us apart from traditional ad agencies and consultancies. As a 2023 and 2024 Philadelphia Inquirer Top Workplace, we take pride in fostering a work environment where passion meets excellence. Our people are solutions-oriented individuals who eagerly roll up their sleeves to make work that works while sharing a couple of laughs along the way.

About the Position

The Social Creative Team within our Creative Group produces engaging, impactful, thoughtful, exciting, and elevated content to represent a Fortune 30 brand across various social platforms. As a CREATOR on this team, you should be passionate about content creation and a social media aficionado with deep knowledge of media platforms and tools. Equal parts designer, writer, and storyteller, a CREATOR who has a passion for social media and is dual-minded: highly creative but also efficiently coordinated and able to translate complex ideas into compelling content in a fast-paced environment. While the focus will be on social media creative, we see the role as broader - supporting our digital production team holistically from end to end in a highly collaborative environment.

Requirements

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Work with a nimble team of producers and creators to ideate and create a consistent volume of high-quality, targeted content across all social media platforms using primarily in-house resources.
• Understand the brand’s goals, strategy, and tone of voice.
• Create content that makes measurable and impactful connections with target audiences
• Leverage performance metrics provided by the social team to influence creative execution.
• Collaborate with different creative teams on rapid-fire requests, tight timelines, and longer-term projects.
• Attend creative brainstorms, kick-offs, and reviews, contributing meaningful ideas.
• Follow the direction of creative leadership on best practices, ideating, and execution.
• Use feedback and recommendations to deliver positive results.
• Contribute to a great work environment that celebrates everyone’s success.
• Use insights based on real-time response, reporting, and market trends to help the ideation process.

The skills and experience you should have:

• 1-3+ years of relevant social media production experience.
• Extraordinary content creation skills, capable of execution from start to finish.
• Not a one-trick pony. Has passion for various creative outlets, including design, video, editing, and writing.
• Expertise in making platform-specific creative content on Twitter/X, TikTok, Meta, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc. and agility to adapt as platforms change and new products emerge.
• Strong project management skills to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong portfolio of digital storytelling experience, including the ability to translate complex ideas into compelling stories.
• Ability to produce content quickly and extremely detail-oriented.
• Experience working with nimble, creative teams to execute quickly.
• Responsible, accountable, and self-starter, thrives in experimentation and collaboration environments.
• Hands-on knowledge and experience with some (if not all) of the following skills and tools:
• Videography and Photography: DSLR and mobile
• Editing: Final Cut / After Effects / Premiere
• Writing: Google Docs / Word
• Art/Design: Adobe CC / PPT / Figma / Canva
• MUST be open to appearing in content

It's a plus if you have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental benefits including of 1K Health Reimbursement Account
• Matching 401K
• Generous PTO policy
• Substantial Parental Leave Policy
• Hybrid Work Environment (4 days on-site in Philadelphia, PA)
  

Curious about your career path at Athena? This role is within a rapidly growing creative department and the right candidate can excel, produce great work, and have an immediate impact on Athena’s creative product culture and growth.

Oh, and our application process is open, easy, as transparent as we can make it, and painless. We need team members like you to join us! Let’s get started.

Athena is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position, please contact us at 866.299.6040.