Is Mark Zuckerberg following you on Twitter? Do you open spam and think “Wow, this person clearly has NO idea about what their key metrics should be!” Is your idea of a fun Monday morning writing a blog and linking it to every other blog in the technology domain? If so, have we got a job for you.
In this job, you’ll learn: how to best explain the benefits and how the Mobius SLIP learning management system works in ways that instructors and students can understand. Maybe try metaphors about Star Trek, they usually respond well to those.
Intangible benefits: You’ll be working with a variety of social media technologies to get the word out on how great the stuff we are doing is and why they should use Mobius SLIP.
Potential hazards: You’ll be working so hard on developing our social media presence that your social life will suddenly seem empty and meaningless – if it doesn’t already.
If Mobius SLIP were a superhero team, you’d be: one of those guys who is just really observant and able to link disparate pieces of information to make a cohesive story – like the investigators on Psych, The Mentalist, or Castle. Alternatively, you could be the guy who is really good with computers and analysis who sifts through the numbers to make sense of it all – well like Numbers – but that show didn’t really last.
Worst part of the job: your job description includes this sentence: “The role will require a detail-oriented and organized person, capable of handling multiple projects at once, able to take direction, capable of dealing with ambiguity, and comfortable working with teams, vendors, and management.” See how they snuck “ambiguity” in there? Bum bum bum bummmmmm.
It’ll go better if: you don’t assume “ambiguity” won’t mean “krav maga training with a former member of the Ukrainian Special Forces” at some point. Hey, the corporate world’s tough. Sometimes you’re gonna have to work late, and sometimes you’re gonna have to fight a Soviet.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing content for daily posts/tweets to all applicable social media outlets and weekly blog
- Coordinating marketing calendar with online activity
- Tracking social media influence measurement
- Ensuring proper online messaging, relevancy, and messaging across multiple networks
- Preparing reports to update staff on usage statistics
- Monitoring competitors and reporting ‘chatter’
- Serve as community online manager.
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience in marketing metrics
- Working toward a bachelor’s or master’s degree
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
- Experience creating and executing data-driven promotional campaigns with specific metrics
- Understanding of business rules and how traffic and customer acquisition relate to revenue growth
- Strong bias for action and ability to independently prioritize and execute projects
- Experience managing and analyzing large amounts of data, and complete familiarity with Excel, Google Analytics and other analytics tools
Internship Salary: $10 / hour for 10 hours a week. One year duration.
Bonuses: There will be a series of financial bonuses for meeting agreed upon target metrics.
Apologies: To the folks at Woot! who inspired and lent valuable content to this job description. I bought the ‘Procrastination University’ Tee as my penance.
How to apply: Please use the Spartan Careers site to apply. Alternatively, send a resume and cover letter describing why you are a great fit for our company. Also, please create a 1-page analysis of Mobius SLIP’s current social media presence and a three-point plan on how you would make it better.
Contact: Please contact Eric Ford at ewford@gmail.com for more information.
