Social Media Manager, NT Tech (Fintech)

Location: Chicago, IL; hybrid schedule with in-office work Tuesday through Thursday and remote work on Mondays and Fridays. The role is not open to remote candidates outside Chicago. Includes 20 additional flex remote days annually and six company-wide office-optional weeks tied to major holidays.

Salary: $85,000–$100,000 USD annually, plus an annual target bonus.

Company

hirify.global operates a retail trading platform and futures brokerage with software, brokerage services, and tools for traders.

What you will do

• Own the social strategy, content roadmap, calendar, creation, and publishing for hirify.global Prop and Ecosystem accounts across X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook.
• Build a consistent social-first brand voice and visual identity, adapting content natively for each platform and monitoring algorithms, trends, and emerging channels.
• Create social assets, coordinate with designers and creative partners, oversee copywriting and captions, and support product launches and campaigns.
• Manage influencers, creators, agencies, vendors, and community operations, including guidelines, response standards, escalations, comments, DMs, mentions, tags, and brand sentiment.
• Repurpose long-form video into short-form content for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts, including captions, subtitles, and on-screen text.
• Lead cross-functional work with content, product, and growth teams; analyze channel performance and develop recommendations, business cases, processes, and standards for regulatory and brand compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, journalism, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience, plus 6+ years of related experience; 4+ years is accepted with a master’s degree.
• Experience in social media, content creation, or digital marketing in an agency or in-house environment.
• End-to-end ownership of a major social or content program, including strategy, roadmap management, measurable results, and social growth for a financial brand, media company, or creator.
• Deep knowledge of the futures, prop trading, or crypto space, including its audiences, communities, and culture.
• Experience building and leading community management programs and representing a brand voice publicly.
• Strong understanding of short-form video and X content ecosystems, graphic design, and video editing software such as Adobe Premiere or similar.
• Experience with Sprout Social, Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, project management tools such as Jira, ClickUp, or Monday.com, and AI tools including Claude or ChatGPT for marketing workflows.
• Experience adapting long-form content into short-form, social-first formats; strategic fluency in meme culture and internet humor.
• Strong writing skills, including concise captions and platform-specific tone adaptation, plus the ability to communicate recommendations in writing and meetings.
• Strong organization and experience managing vendors, agencies, or contractors across multiple content and cross-functional workstreams, aligning stakeholders at Manager and Director levels without formal authority.

Nice to have

• Comfort appearing on camera for TikTok and Reels.
• Basic familiarity with paid social and the relationship between organic and paid activity.
• Familiarity with Social SEO, including optimizing captions, hashtags, and scripts for discoverability on TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with additional flex remote days and office-optional weeks.
• 18 days of annual paid time off, seven paid holidays, five conditional holidays, and one service day.
• 401(k) plan with a company match of up to 3.5% of employee contributions.
• Paid parental bonding leave and health, vision, and dental coverage.
• Life and disability insurance covered 100% by hirify.global.