Are You Our Ninja?

Providence Media, the leader in local lifestyle and the publisher of your favorite (right?) local magazine(s), is looking for an Internet Ninja to join our team. (No, that won’t be the actual job title.) This person will be responsible for managing our total online presence, including four websites corresponding to each of our magazines (you can name them all, right?) and various social media presences, including Facebook and Twitter.

What you would be doing…
-Posting all content from our magazines to the web.
-Creating original, web-only content.

-Managing social media for all four publications on Facebook and Twitter.
-Expanding our social media presence into new platforms.
-Selling and managing web advertising.
-Creating newsletters and e-blasts.
-Devising and executing an overall online presence with an eye toward both the editorial and the marketing/PR sides of things.
-Spending a lot of time on the Internet.
-Staying up on the latest trends and developments in online media; determining which ones are worthwhile and which ones are little better than cat memes.
-Learning lots of industry jargon and buzzwords, then trying not to confuse us with them.

What you should know/be able to do…
-Construct a halfway decent sentence.
-GET PEOPLE’S ATTENTION!!! in a more effective and less obnoxious manner than that.
-Distract our audience from getting actual work done through strategic deployment of status updates, tweets, blog posts and other Internet ephemera.
-Care about the communities and cultures of Rhode Island. Get interested in them, develop relationships with them and spotlight the most interesting parts.
-SEO. What is it? How do you do it? We’re not entirely sure either, but if you don’t already know it we’re going to send you to a class to learn it.
-Sell advertising. (Duh.)
-Graphic design, photography, Photoshop, HTML, etc. – those kinds of skills aren’t required, but they certainly wouldn’t hurt.
-Think beyond the basic job description here. Imagine and execute a vision of our online presence and your role in it that allows our company to grow and you to grow with it.

What you can expect from us…
-A lot of work, really fast.
-A fun, creative, challenging environment.
-The opportunity to grow and become an integral part of our team.
-The knowledge that your ideas and opinions are welcome and valued.
-A learning curve for both you and us.
-$28k/year plus medical, paid vacation and matching 401k.

What you should do next…
-Decide if this is for you.
-Decide if you are for us.
-Send your resume and cover letter to resumes@providenceonline.com.