Grist
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Social Audience Producer

Pay
$80,000 – $90,000 per year
Location
Remote (US)
Listed
Today

Position Overview

Grist is seeking a Social Audience Producer to help shape and execute Grist's approach across social platforms and beyond. This person will play a critical role in Grist's mission to reach and engage audiences across the country, helping people understand how climate change affects their lives.

We're looking for someone who is both strategic and creative - who can make our existing social presence more distinctive and engaging while constantly asking what else we could be doing. You'll help hone Grist's voice and approach on the platforms where we already engage with audiences, and help us identify emerging platforms and communities where Grist should be showing up.

The ideal candidate understands metrics, and also knows that it's not just reach that matters but depth of engagement. They have their finger on the pulse of the latest trends, and also a desire to create a unique voice and meaningful relationships with readers. They can balance creating impactful daily content with thinking bigger about ideas and possibilities.

And they are interested in both how to translate Grist's journalism across platforms as well as how to create original, audience-driven storytelling. The multimedia production skills (design, video) needed to execute visually-driven social storytelling would be a significant asset.

Because this position is one of the public voices for Grist's journalism, strong editorial judgment is essential. You should be able to develop a voice that is lively, human, and native to each platform while maintaining Grist's journalistic standards. We're looking for someone with sharp news judgment, excellent writing skills, and the ability to collaborate with reporters, editors, visual journalists, and colleagues across Grist and at partner organizations.

The salary range for this position is between $80,000-$90,000, which is determined by a number of factors including experience, specialized skills or training, and internal equity. This is a remote work position and can be based anywhere in the U.S. Applicants must be U.S.-based and eligible to work in the U.S.

This position is represented by Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild Local 37082 ("Grist NewsGuild").

Responsibilities

  • Manage Grist's existing social accounts, creating and publishing content that drives reach, engagement, and impact.
  • Establish and experiment with Grist's voice and approach across existing social platforms, and identify opportunities to experiment with new ones.
  • Use analytics and other audience insights to understand what is and isn't working, develop and evaluate experiments, identify new opportunities, and contribute to decisions about Grist's social strategy.
  • Contribute to ideas and opportunities for engaging audiences outside of traditional social platforms, like events.
  • Collaborate across the organization to create distribution and social plans for Grist's journalism, events, and other priorities, including refining how we collaborate with our local news partners.
  • Monitor social reactions and conversations to elevate story ideas and flag comments that may need a response.
  • Conceive and execute audience- and/or social-first storytelling opportunities.
  • Assist in the creation of graphics, videos, and other social media assets.
  • Support Grist journalists who want to strengthen their own social presence, helping them understand platform norms and find approaches that work for them and their reporting.
  • Collaborate closely with other members of the Audience team and with colleagues across Editorial, Design, Video, and beyond, including at our local news partner organizations.
  • Stay current on changing platform features and best practices, and share useful insights and learnings with colleagues.

Required qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience in social media, audience development, or a closely related field, preferably with a journalism or media organization.
  • A track record of creating distinctive, engaging content for social platforms.
  • Demonstrated writing and editing skills and the ability to adapt voice, tone, and storytelling approaches for different platforms and audiences.
  • Strong news judgment and an understanding of journalistic ethics.
  • Experience using analytics and audience insights to understand performance, identify opportunities, and inform decisions.
  • Hands-on experience creating multimedia content for social platforms, ideally including short-form video and visual storytelling.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills and an enthusiasm for working with journalists and colleagues across disciplines.
  • The ability to balance daily content creation with longer-term creative thinking and experimentation.

And it would sure be nice if you had

  • Experience or interest in climate change and environmental issues.
  • Strong production skills in video, design, or both.
  • Familiarity with social listening, audience research, social media analytics tools, and/or paid social marketing.
  • An understanding of the creator ecosystem and interest in finding unconventional ways for journalism to reach new audiences.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision coverage paid 100% for Employee premiums and 85% for Dependent premiums
  • Employer paid Basic Life, ADD, Travel Assistance, STD/LTD, EAPs
  • Voluntary Insurance include Health, Dependent and Transit FSA, Life/ADD, Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
  • Traditional and Roth 401k with matching (vested immediately)
  • New Employee Remote Office Set-up reimbursement
  • Monthly WiFi Stipend
  • Alternative Transportation Reimbursement
  • Temporary employees will receive the paid holidays that fall during their period of employment, plus 2.5 floating holidays. Temporary employees who are employed during the summer months will receive one summer day for each month they are employed during the summer.
  • Generous paid leave including medical and family leave, parental leave, abortion leave, sabbatical leave and many other paid and unpaid leave programs
  • Annual in-person all-staff retreat (subject to pandemic conditions)

About Grist

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change. Since 1999, we have used the power of journalism to engage the public about the perils of one of the most existential threats we face. We seek to document the often unequal impacts of climate change on communities in the United States and globally - as well as to show the promise of equitable climate solutions.

Over the past eight years, we have scaled from a largely Seattle-based team of 25-30 to a nationally distributed organization of ~50. Our vision is to ignite public urgency and action on climate change for a thriving planet that benefits everyone. We work toward our vision by creating thought-provoking journalism and multimedia storytelling that drive the climate change conversation.

Grist's journalism has been recognized with dozens of awards and nominations in recent years, including for general excellence from the National Magazine Award, the Edward R Murrow Awards, and the Online Journalism Awards. According to a fall 2025 survey, 100% of staff would recommend Grist to a friend.

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