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Social Media Specialist at PEAK6 Investments, LP
Description
Social Media Specialist
PEAK6 Investments, LP
The Firm:
Established in 1997, PEAK6 Investments, LP is a leading financial institution in Chicago with an established track record of success in proprietary trading. PEAK 6 is also rapidly expanding its commercial focus to include innovative initiatives in the hedge fund, online media, retail options brokerage and institutional trading segments.
PEAK6 specializes in inventory and risk management, using state of the art technology and proprietary tools and is heavily committed to building the next generation of automated trading systems and businesses.
Recently recognized as one of 'Chicago's Best and Brightest Employers to Work For,' PEAK6 offers a competitive salary, performance bonuses, and a great benefits package including: medical, dental, vision, 401K, paid vacation, sickness and disability benefits, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, along with a casual work environment and dress code and the occasional yoga class. PEAK6 currently employs 300 professionals and is rapidly growing in scope, complexity and depth of operation.
The Opportunity:
Social Media Specialist (Full time)
We are building an exciting and innovative social networking site backed by PEAK6 Investments, an industry leader in the investment arena, and led by a nationally known entrepreneur and financial commentator. Do you live in and on the blogosphere? Do you have a history of building online communities? We are looking for your Web2.0 talents! Won’t you please join us in our ‘start-up’ environment as we build an online social networking site dedicated to the passions everyone loves in everyday life.
Responsibilities:
• Interact, engage, stimulate and take the lead with our online community via blogging, private messaging, blog comments and discussion boards etc.
• Use already established social media connections to the blogosphere to recruit and foster other bloggers for relevant content as needed.
• Mange a team of bloggers across a varied work matrix (in-house, on-call, tele-commute etc).
• Define guidelines, recommendations, best practices and procedures related to the community.
• Be the face of the community across the social graph and help manage the social relationship of the community on the web.
• Serve as a point of contact and help solve any customer service issues within the community.
• Increase community membership, awareness and participation to create a thriving online community.
• Use already established social media connections to promote the community.
• Identify and recruit influencers, evangelists and trends within the community and conduct evangelization efforts online and offline
• Establish metrics and provide tracking to communicate and validate community interaction
• Assist in social media marketing campaigns.
Requirements:
• 3+ years online community management
• 3+ years of verifiable community contributions (blogging, discussion posts, etc.).
• Should be well versed and have hands on experience with social media sites and networks (Facebook, MySpace, dig, reddit, Newsvine, technorati, Friendfeed etc.
• Know what twitter is and ‘get it’.
• Referenceable experience managing in-house writers and coordinating external bloggers/contributors.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Established extensive or rich blogosphere and general professional social network connections
• Creative, outgoing, friendly team player and builder
• Have a BA/BS degree
Pluses include:
• SEO knowledge and experience
• Personal finance and investing knowledge.
• Web2.0PR, marketing and advertising knowledge or experience
Send us
• Your resume
• A cover letter including salary requirement and telling us why you’re our community manager.
• 3 websites and 5 blogs you frequent the most
• Added bonus: Links to your profiles, your blog link or sample writing
Location
• Chicago, IL USA ( Loop)
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.
Details
Location: Chicago, Illinois United States
Type: Full Time
Posted: 3 Nov 2008
Contact Information
Email: tkessel@peak6.com
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