Job Description

About Athena 

Athena is a marketing consultancy where great ideas are activated. With a blend of strategic thinking, creative vision, and hands-on execution, we partner with organizations looking to transform their presence, reputation, and performance. For over ten years, we’ve delivered business insights, marketing strategies, and brand activations for leading organizations in industries ranging from telecommunications to major league sports.  

Our people make Athena, Athena. They’re what help set us apart from traditional ad agencies and consultancies. As a 2024 Philadelphia Inquirer Top Workplace, we take pride in fostering a work environment where passion meets excellence. Our people are solutions-oriented individuals who eagerly roll up their sleeves to make work that works while sharing a couple of laughs along the way.   

About the Position 

Our Creative Group produces engaging, impactful, thoughtful, exciting, and elevated content to represent a Fortune 30 brand across various digital platforms.

We’re seeking a talented Digital Brand Storyteller with 3 to 5 years experience, focusing on social media. The ideal candidate is passionate about storytelling, masters tone of voice, and crafts captivating copy.

This role requires agility and the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, translating interesting and often complex ideas into compelling content. While the primary focus is supporting paid social media campaigns and organic posts, the Digital Brand Storyteller will also support the development of advertising campaigns. This role will work closely with Creative leadership and the rest of the creative team in a highly collaborative environment.

If you have a passion for writing, storytelling, and coming up with creative ideas, we would love to know more about you.

Requirements

What you’ll be responsible for: 

• Collaborate with other members of the Social Creative team to:

  • Develop impactful digital communication concepts.
  • Translate long-form content into impactful social messages.
  • Write scripts for short-form videos and work with videographers and editors.
  • Create and optimize in-asset and post copy.
  • Adapt long-form content (e.g., press announcements) for social media.
  • Support integrated ad campaigns: social extensions, long-form scripts, digital display, and custom content.
  • Oversee copy from ideation to post-production.

• Create engaging copy for social media campaigns, focusing on quick, short-form deliverables, guided by the behaviors of our target audience.

• Help define and maintain a consistent brand voice on social media.

• Manage multiple projects with tight deadlines.

• Understand the company’s products, processes, audiences, objectives, and competitors to inform your work.

• Present strategically thought-out concepts.

• Use feedback and insights to guide creative decisions.

The skills and experience you should have: 

• 3-5 years in digital communications, focusing on social media.
• Strong portfolio of multi-platform social media work, including social video scriptwriting.
• Expertise in industry best practices and social media platforms.
• Experience working as team as well as independently.
• Motivated self-starter with a conceptual mind.
• Additional skills (e.g. content strategy, creative concepting, eye for visual design) are a plus.
• Strong understanding of brand objectives, offerings, and tone.
• Ability to work quickly on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Previous agency experience, ideally with corporate brands, is a plus.

It's a plus if you have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental benefits including of 1K Health Reimbursement Account
• Matching 401K
• Generous PTO policy
• Substantial Parental Leave Policy
• Hybrid Work Environment (4 days on-site in Philadelphia, PA)

Curious about your career path at Athena? This role is within a rapidly growing creative department and the right candidate can excel, produce great work, and have an immediate impact on Athena’s creative product culture and growth.

Oh, and our application process is open, easy, as transparent as we can make it, and painless. We need team members like you to join us! Let’s get started.

Athena is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability and need assistance in applying for a position, please contact us at 866.299.6040.

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