Associate, Social & Influencer
About The Position
Weber Shandwick is seeking an Associate, Social + Influencer Strategy to join their team in Washington, DC. This is an entry-level opportunity for someone early in their communications career who wants to grow in the social and influencer space. The role involves working alongside supportive, collaborative teammates on a range of client work, contributing curiosity, a can-do attitude, and care for the details as you build your skills. Genuine interest, initiative, and a willingness to learn are key. This is a client-facing role, requiring an approachable, thoughtful communication style and the ability to work well with different people. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic and proactive, keeps up with social platforms and creators out of genuine interest, is organized, dependable, curious about how social and influencer work supports communications goals, and comfortable learning in a fast-paced environment. Experience may have been gained through internships, an early-career role, campus activities, personal projects, or other hands-on opportunities. Days will include a mix of research, collaboration, coordination, and learning, such as gathering social and creator insights, tracking emerging conversations, supporting content and campaign planning, developing client-facing documents, organizing project details, or pulling together performance updates. The role offers guidance from colleagues, opportunities to build confidence with clients, and learning about how great programs come together.
Requirements
- 1–2 years of relevant experience in communications, marketing, social media, public relations, or a related area; internships and other hands-on experience may count.
- A genuine interest in social media, creators, influencer marketing, and digital culture.
- Proactive approach: you look for ways to help, follow through on commitments, and raise questions when you need context.
- Strong organization and attention to detail, with the ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines.
- Clear, thoughtful written and verbal communication skills.
- A collaborative mindset and comfort working with people across different teams and backgrounds.
- Curiosity, adaptability, a positive attitude, and eagerness to learn from feedback.
- Familiarity with major social platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, or X.
- Interest in learning responsible uses of generative AI for research, ideation, and analysis.
Nice To Haves
- Experience assisting with content creation, social channels, creator research, or campaign coordination.
- Exposure to social listening, analytics, or publishing tools—or enthusiasm for learning them.
Responsibilities
- Support social and influencer projects, from research, content ideation and planning through execution, coordination and reporting.
- Help research platforms, audiences, creators, cultural moments, and emerging trends; share useful observations with the team and apply them to client projects.
- Assist with social content calendars, creator research, campaign materials, and client-ready presentations.
- Help coordinate project timelines, approvals, deliverables, and day-to-day details across internal teams and partners.
- Contribute ideas and thoughtful questions, and take initiative to move assigned work forward.
- Support social listening and performance reporting by organizing information and helping identify key takeaways.
- Collaborate with colleagues across social, influencer, creative, strategy, media, and public relations teams.
- Build client communication skills by supporting meetings, follow-ups, and day-to-day account needs.
Benefits
- The opportunity to work in a hybrid environment with a minimum of three days a week in the office.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
