Manager, Digital and Social Media

Arnold Ventures (AV) is a philanthropy that supports research to understand the root causes of Americas most persistent and pressing problems as well as evidence-based solutions to address them. By focusing on systemic change AV is working to improve the lives of American families strengthen their communities and promote their economic opportunity.

Position Overview

The Manager Digital and Social Media will help to define AVs external social presence translating complex policy research into compelling timely content that reaches the policymakers journalists and advocates who can act on it. The Manager will help design and execute AVs content strategy across X LinkedIn and other priority channels support AV principals and subject-matter experts in developing an authentic digital voice and build AI-enabled workflows to support working in a fast-paced environment.

This position will report to the Director Digital Strategy and will work closely with Communications team members across AVs offices. The position will be based in AVs New York Houston or Washington D.C. office.

Core Responsibilities

Social Content Strategy and Execution

Build and maintain an editorial calendar across X LinkedIn and emerging channels tied to organizational priorities policy cycles and issue moments.

Draft and publish clear evidence-grounded posts that translate complex policy positions and research findings into accessible shareable content.

Adapt longform assets such as reports op-eds event remarks and press coverage into channel-native derivatives so that a single research report yields a thread a LinkedIn article a set of quote cards and a newsletter input.

Monitor conversations across channels and engage constructively on AVs behalf.

Identify opportunities to engage and shape policy conversations and proactively provide recommendations to the relevant team leads for timely engagement.

Partner with the media and advocacy teams to turn real-time developments including policy announcements legislative votes and media hits into timely social content.

Track narrative shifts polarization trends and emerging issue conversations and proactively surface opportunities to the team.

Help measure performance on AVs social channels using data to refine our digital presence over time and working closely with the Manager Web and Analytics on informing the measurement strategy.

Principal and Expert Amplification

Help AV thought leaders build their social presence where it advances organizational goals helping high-profile and subject matter experts find an authentic digital voice.

Develop social-ready commentary threads and bylines that appeal to policy experts journalists and other opinion leaders.

Build a lightweight approval workflow for principal content using AI to generate draft options from talking points speeches and interview transcripts that principals can review and approve quickly.

AI-Enabled Workflows and Team Acceleration

Build and document AI-powered workflows that compress multi-step content processes such as turning daily media monitoring from Penta and Clipbook into draft social commentary generating first-pass rapid-response copy from alerts and assembling weekly performance snapshots from vendor-provided data.

Create resources and templates that the broader Communications team can use without deep AI expertise including prompt libraries content kits channel-specific formatting guides and distribution checklists.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree

At least 5 years of experience in social content digital communications or content marketing including at least 2 years integrating AI tools into daily production work.

Strong writing and editing skills with a portfolio that demonstrates range across formats audiences and voices.

Experience owning social content end to end including editorial calendar creation publishing community management and performance analysis.

Working knowledge of social analytics and monitoring tools and the judgment to translate what they show into content decisions. Experience with SEO web analytics (GA4) or email marketing tools (Mailchimp) is preferred.

Proficiency with AI tools and workflow automation platforms as a core part of your production process.

Comfort operating in advocacy and policy environments with experience in or around federal state or local policy preferred.

High tolerance for ambiguity and comfort working in a dynamic initiative-based environment with shifting priorities and cross-team collaboration.

The salary range for this position will be $105000 - $140000.

Benefits Overview

AV is committed to providing a robust and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our current benefits package includes 100% paid employee premiums for medical dental vision basic life and short- and long-term disability insurance; 20 days of paid time off 16 paid holidays (including a winter break from December 24 to January 1) a hybrid policy that includes four days in office and one flexible day for remote work and a summer schedule with alternating Fridays off beginning on Memorial Day and ending on Labor Day; paid parental leave; a 401k retirement savings plan with an employer match profit-share contribution and immediate vesting; pre-tax transit benefits; a professional development stipend; a charitable giving stipend; and an employee assistance addition a relocation bonus is available for candidates who will move for a position.

Our Culture and Core Values

Our culture seeks to inspire and empower our people to innovate and develop bold ideas that will help AV achieve lasting impact. Our culture and the core values that support it should create an environment that spurs our team to think outside the box feel comfortable pushing the boundaries of what is possible and signal confidence in our teams ability to make change happen through our philanthropic efforts. Although not an exhaustive list below youll find examples of AVs work culture.

We are adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity

We are intellectually curious open-minded objective humble collegial and receptive to feedback

We are action-oriented with strong self-direction and self-motivation skills with the ability to work simultaneously on multiple projects

We are able to interact confidently and collaboratively with team members and navigate relationships with external experts government leaders advocates and individuals

AVs values reflect who we are as an organization help us accelerate our strategic goals strengthen our resolve anchor us to our mission and guide our decision-making. The successful candidate will also demonstrate the following core values that inspire the AV team to make a difference.

Respect for Ourselves & Others

Audacious Action

Collaborative Engagement

Depth of Thought

Clear Communication

AV is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We are seeking applicants from a variety of backgrounds and with a variety of experiences and perspectives. Candidates who have been impacted by the systems we are seeking to change are strongly encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race color religion national origin age sex gender identity or expression marital status sexual orientation disability military/veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.