Become a Savage
Savage Ventures is a venture operator based in Nashville, TN. We believe in prioritizing customers, fighting to find the truth of the matter, focusing on results, not vanity, and enjoying the journey. We are looking for amazing people that want to create amazing stories with us.
Job Openings
Social Media Manager
Savage Ventures is seeking an experienced Social Media Manager to work closely with the sales, marketing, and operation teams to ensure social media platforms are managed and grown in partnership with video content, branded content, media, experiential, email, and new revenue channels.
Job Description
The Social Media Manager will be a key member of the team working on a brand new outdoor-themed property.
The ideal candidate will have experience partnering with sales leaders, operations teams, and product marketing teams coordinating the execution of organic and paid social campaigns. This person must be a flexible, cross-functional team player comfortable with a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous, environment.
Responsibilities:
- Manage new and existing social media accounts with a focus on engagement and growth of the accounts; with an additional focus on website traffic growth
- Coordinate closely with sales, operations, production, and project management teams around social media strategies and execution of social campaign deliverables
- Ensure client deliverables are met
- Run and distribute reports to internal stakeholders to drive consistency and refine our content strategy
- Build and execute paid campaigns within social platforms; ability to optimize for click, impressions, views, etc.
- Work with account management to create compelling post sales case studies and wrap reports around social deliverables
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- At least 2 years of relevant professional experience; ideally with at least 1 year of experience within the media/entertainment industry in a social media management role
- Experience working at a publisher, agency, or similar digital first company
- Experience working in a cross-functional capacity within a dynamic, rapidly changing environment
- Familiarity with data orientation and use of data tools, e.g. Excel, Google Analytics, and social media channel tools, FB, TW, IG, TK, YT
- Knowledge of online research methods, 3rd party research tools, and understanding of the facets of online advertising and ad metrics
- Ability to effectively manage project lifecycle through project management tools, including Asana and Slack
- Proficiency in graphic design and video editing
Vice President, Content Commerce & Affiliate
Savage Ventures is seeking an experienced commerce business leader to work closely with our operational, leadership, and partner teams
Job Description
This role will be responsible for leveraging our content, marketing, and operations teams to ensure our commerce business objectives are met across all channels (e.g.s video, written, offsite, email). Savage has a significant set of revenue opportunities across its portfolio of brands, which currently include: American Songwriter, Savage Sports, Rare.us, 247Health, Total Frat Move, and others.
The ideal candidate will have experience scaling content commerce and affiliate as key aspects of monetizing a set of digital assets.This person must be a flexible, cross-functional team player comfortable with a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous, environment.
Savage Ventures is a Venture operator focused on investing in and acquiring digital first brands, mostly in media and direct to consumer. Savage Ventures deploys rapid growth strategies across its brands by leveraging original content, technologies, and experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Find creative opportunities to deploy commerce opportunities across our channels and content; leverage commerce findings to drive Savage product and business strategy
- Collaborate with the Editor, SEO Manager to ensure that the team is capitalizing on the right opportunities and leading to a strong ROI
- Develop strategic relationships with affiliate partners in all categories that the site operates, finding collaborative ways to jointly increase revenue performance
- Make data driven decisions while constantly testing and learning – using post-launch KPI data to continually optimize the site to both increase sales and drive a premium experience
- Research industry trends, leading the Commerce team to test, learn, and capitalize on opportunities
- Leverage vendor relationships, industry knowledge, research, and market channels to identify, develop, and source high-quality products cost effectively
- Collaborate with our content (video and written), marketing, and operations teams to optimize marketing and to capitalize on purchasing intent
- Budget and execute on a comprehensive commerce P&L; including understanding key performance indicators, ensuring business hits targets, pulling appropriate levers to drive volume and profitability
- Analyze the competitive landscape and Savage’s positioning and drive the team toward areas where we can be the top resource for readers with a focus on organic traffic
- Create and execute partner marketing programs, such as co-marketing relationships, working in collaboration with partners across their licensing, business development, and other functional organizations
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant business leadership experience in digital media with experience in commerce and affiliate marketing businesses
- Deep expertise in media and leveraging commerce data to lead and grow a publishing commerce business
- Passionate problem solver with strong creative and analytical capabilities
- Able to manage complex projects to tight deadlines, whilst remaining flexible and responding quickly to trends in data
- Strong relationship and consensus building skills with both internal stakeholders and strategic partners
- Track record of building collaborative and high performing teams
- Proven skills in planning, forecasting, managing budgets and P&L, with a track record of exceeding goals
- Strong understanding of the commerce ecosystem and what drives people to read, engage, and buy
- Strong understanding of KPI’s for online commerce and publishing businesses
- Track record of identifying and hiring great talent
- Ability to move fast and make good decisions with limited information
- Good understanding of UX, features, and reader behavior, with a product and reader
Managing Editor
Savage Ventures is seeking an experienced editorial leader to work closely with our editorial, programming, business, operational, leadership, and partner teams.
Job Description
This role will be responsible for leveraging our content, marketing, and operations teams to ensure our commerce objectives are met across all channels (e.g.s video, written, offsite, email) and to build new editorial processes and operations from the ground up. Savage has a significant set of revenue opportunities across its portfolio of brands, which currently include: American Songwriter, Savage Sports, Rare.us, 247Health, Total Frat Move, and others to come.
The ideal candidate will have experience at building and scaling content teams and understanding of affiliate editorial as a means to grow an editorial brand.This person must be a flexible, cross-functional team player comfortable with a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous, environment.
Savage Ventures is a Venture operator focused on investing in and acquiring digital first brands, mostly in media and direct to consumer. Savage Ventures deploys rapid growth strategies across its brands by leveraging original content, technologies, and experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the Editor, SEO Manager to build and grow the commerce content division that aligns with our brand identity and provides actionable insight to readers; oversee the development and execution of brand-appropriate, journalism-led commerce content
- Drive audience growth through both paid and organic initiatives, with a particular focus on building search authority and developing loyal audiences on social media
- Make data driven decisions while constantly testing and learning – using post-launch KPI data to continually optimize the site to both increase sales and drive a premium experience
- Research industry trends, leading the Commerce editorial team to test, learn, and capitalize on opportunities – building new verticals and content categories that resonate with the audience
- Collaborate with our content (video and written), marketing, and operations teams to optimize marketing and to capitalize on purchasing intent
- Analyze the competitive landscape and Savage’s positioning and drive the team toward areas where we can be the top resource for readers with a focus on organic traffic
- Increase operating leverage of existing commerce talent through process improvement, training, and allocation of freelance resources
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of relevant editorial leadership experience in digital media with experience preferably in commerce and service journalism
- Competency in SEO, audience development, and how to build an audience on and off O&O properties
- Deep expertise in media and leveraging commerce editorial data to lead and grow a publishing commerce business
- Expertise across the key levers that drive performance of the editorial division (content, design, product experience, marketing, partnerships, SEO and social media)
- Passionate problem solver with strong creative and analytical capabilities
- Track record of building collaborative and high performing teams
- Strong understanding of the commerce ecosystem and what drives people to read, engage, and buy
Strong understanding of KPI’s for online commerce and publishing businesses - Deep understanding of the search ecosystem and evergreen stories
- Track record of identifying and hiring great talent
WordPress
SEO Content Specialist
Savage Ventures, a Nashville based Venture Operator is looking for an SEO Content Specialist to support the search growth of web properties in entertainment, music, sports, popular culture, and college humor.
Job Description
The SEO Content Specialist will be a member of the SEO team, and will be responsible for writing articles & creating content that grows traffic from search engines and related channels, as well as assisting in some technical SEO & reporting related tasks.
The ideal candidate will be a writer who can work under tight deadlines to output articles, & possesses at least an apprentice level understanding of SEO concepts to consult and provide input.
Responsibilities:
- Create content for new media products, like Google Web Stories
- Nominate editorial topics based on research & data to grow search audience
- Analyze performance of SEO & content experiments to inform broader strategy
- Own select technical SEO processes, like linking & meta-data optimization
- Own select reporting processes, like ranking & atrophy mitigation
- Work directly with the brand specific and commerce content teams
- Write articles designed to satisfy searches
Qualifications:
- Experience as a writer & content creator
- Experience working in the media / entertainment industry
- Familiarity with industry standard SEO & analytics tools
- Familiarity with web content management systems like WordPress
VP of Ecommerce
5+ years of experience scaling merchandise strategy and operations for media brands
Job Description
Savage Ventures is seeking an experienced merchandising and e-commerce leader to work closely with our operational, leadership, and partner teams. This role will be responsible for leveraging our content, marketing, and operations teams to ensure our commerce objectives are met across all channels (e.g.s video, written, offsite, email). Savage has a significant set of revenue opportunities across its brands, which currently include: American Songwriter, Savage Sports, Rare America, Viralish, 247Health, Total Frat Move, and others.
The ideal candidate will have experience scaling e-commerce as one aspect of monetizing a set of digital assets.This person must be a flexible, cross-functional team player comfortable with a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous, environment.
Savage Ventures is a Venture operator focused on investing in and acquiring digital first brands, mostly in media and direct to consumer. Savage Ventures deploys rapid growth strategies across its brands by leveraging original content, technologies, and experiences.
Responsibilities:
Identify ideal products and product mixes for each property and channel
Develop proof of concept and product market fit for our properties and channel; build scale in sales and distribution once success is achieved
Find creative opportunities to deploy commerce functions across our channels and content
Provide assessment and vision of the ideal ‘consumer experience’ by defining key capabilities that differentiate us to our customers
Identify and prioritize consumer needs and cross-channel implications and opportunities, define impact to the Savage brands
Position our products in an industry-leading way
Partner with our technology team and partners to deliver all storefront site development phases from concept to launch
Own visual merchandising of the digital storefront
Influence the fulfillment and returns handling aspects of the ecommerce business; inventory, logistics, and customer support levels of service
Set vision and strategy for a holistic and seamless shopping experience for Savage brands and properties
Lead and manage site experience, content, operations, and a visual merchandising function with focus on building a high performance team who thinks end-to-end and is committed to flawless execution
Leverage vendor relationships, industry knowledge, research, and market channels to identify, develop, and source high-quality products cost effectively
Collaborate with our content (video and written), marketing, and operations teams to optimize marketing and on-site purchasing funnels
Work closely with analytics team to understand user behavior across all digital channels to help improve site engagement and increase conversion of key metrics
Budget and execute on a comprehensive e-commerce P&L; including understanding key performance indicators, ensuring business hits targets, pulling appropriate levers to drive sales volume and profitability
Qualifications:
Must have a proven track record of 5+ years in online marketing including at least 5+ years focused on Ecommerce
Experience working with common ecommerce marketing tools like Shopify, Klaviyo, and WooCommerce.
Experience working with brands at a publisher, agency, or similar digital first company
Experience running paid media to scale winning merchandise
Experience working in a cross-functional capacity within a dynamic, rapidly changing environment
Familiarity with data orientation and use of data tools, e.g. Excel, Google Analytics, and social media channel analytics
Knowledge of online research methods, 3rd party research tools, and understanding of the facets of online advertising and ad metrics
Ability to effectively manage project lifecycle through project management tools, including Asana and Slack
Customer service orientated with experience in a client-facing capacity
Excellent organizational and communication skills
Strong leadership, influencing and communication skills with ability to interact, influence and align with all levels of the organization, both internal and external
Motivational and strong people manager who leads by example and excels at communication to ensure alignment with all team members
Ability to think end-to-end and position complex business solutions with consideration for impact on all relevant business operations as a whole
Must demonstrate sound decision-making and judgment skills with ability to react quickly under pressure
Associate Brand Partnership Lead
American Songwriter is seeking a Associate Brand Partnership Lead to work closely with the sales teams to prospect and qualify potential brand partners who would like to partner across video content, branded content, media, experiential, email, and new revenue channels spanning American Songwriter. The Associate Brand Partnership lead is a key member of the sales team who will be responsible for working and selling to both inbound and outbound leads.
The ideal candidate will have experience working with sales leaders, operations teams, and product marketing teams to strategize prospective brand partners. This person must be a flexible, cross-functional team player comfortable with a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous, environment.
American Songwriter is a 35+ year old music brand focused on celebrating the craft of music.
Responsibilities:
- Prospect brand targets for American Songwriter sales
- Qualify seller prospect list using sales research tools, including CRM tools and prospecting tools
- Develop and strengthen the partnership process and workflow
- Leverage outbound prospecting and lead generation to effectively target buyer personas and ideal brands to partner with
- Build relationships with partners, prospects, and organizational stakeholders
- Research, develop, and pitch new strategies to improve our client communications
- Negotiate efficient partnership agreements
- Identify all viable sales opportunities and catalog deal lifecycle details in our CRM (Hubspot)
- Report progress to the upper management in status meetings and in written format
- Develop engaging sales presentations backed by relevant data, case studies, and media plans
- Work with marketing and customer service teams to ensure all client projects are delivered efficiently and issues get resolved expeditiously
Qualifications:
- 2 years of experience within the media/entertainment industry
- Experience working in customer support/service, sales, or SDR role
- Experience working in a cross-functional capacity within a dynamic, rapidly changing environment
- Familiarity with data orientation and use of data tools, e.g. Excel, Google Suite, and sales/CRM tools
- Knowledge of online research methods, 3rd party research tools, and understanding of the facets of online advertising and ad metrics
- Ability to effectively communicate through project management tools, including Asana and Slack
- Customer service orientated with experience in a client-facing capacity
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
Writer
American Songwriter, Rare & 247Health are looking for creative, thorough, and detail-oriented staff content writers to join the editorial team. Must be able to self-edit work, complete projects on time, and write effectively for multiple formats.
Content Writer
A Staff Content Writer’s responsibilities include creating print and digital content that is readable, accurate, and ready for publication, generating ideas for new content, news stories, and evergreen articles on a tight deadline. A successful candidate will have broad knowledge that spans music and radio, the online world, as well as trends, and other elements of pop culture. There may be opportunities to attend press junkets, interview artists, and break news but much of the daily work will include aggregation. It will include skimming press releases, chasing leads, verifying tips and rumors, attempting to get quotes, reviewing aired programming, or re-purposing content from other outlets. It will also, largely, be a position that requires evening hours. Ultimately, you’ll be creating quality written pieces that appeal to our audience and boost brand awareness.
Please share samples of your work or portfolio of your published articles, along with your application.
Responsibilities:
- Write a mix of news articles, features, and evergreen content daily—producing well-researched content for publication online and in print.
- Communicate regularly with managers, publicists, and label representatives.
- Write clear, concise copy.
- Build stories/features/news on Content Management System, WordPress.
- Proofread and edit posts before publication.
- Submit work to editors for input and approval.
- Ensure all-around consistency (style, fonts, images, and tone).
- Update website content as needed.
- Work closely with a writing team, including content writers and editors.
- Working closely with management to build online traffic.
- Follow an editorial calendar, collaborating with other members of the content production team to ensure timely delivery of materials
Requirements:
- Excellent writing and editing skills- strong knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
- Ability to meet tight deadlines.
- Have a basic grasp of Content Management Systems, CMS. (e.g. WordPress)
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently with little daily supervision.
- Ability to work/write quickly and efficiently – including several news articles and features daily.
- Extensive knowledge of, and passion for, music and pop culture that extends beyond office hours and office walls.
- Willingness and ability to write 7-10 articles in a single shift.
- A meticulous approach to their work and an eye for detail.
- Weekend and evening hours are required.
Commerce Content Writer
Job Description
American Songwriter is looking for a creative, thorough, and detail-oriented commerce content writer to join our editorial team. Must be able to self-edit work, complete projects on time, and write effectively for multiple formats. The ideal candidate possesses a passion for writing commerce and an innovative ability to create exciting and compelling commerce focused stories across all sources of commerce media.
Commerce Content Writer’s responsibilities include creating digital commerce content that is readable, accurate, and ready for publication, generating ideas for new content, news stories, and evergreen articles on a tight deadline. A successful candidate will have broad knowledge that spans music and radio, the online world, as well as trends, and other elements of pop culture. Ultimately, you’ll be creating quality written commerce pieces that appeal to our audience and boost the commerce content strategy.
Dedicated to the Craft of Music and supporting the songwriter community for over 35 years, American Songwriter is an international music publisher. Songwriters, musicians, and music enthusiasts trust American Songwriter to be their authentic home for the latest news, information, and coaching from the music industry.
Please share samples of your work or portfolio of your published articles, along with your application.
Responsibilities
- Write a mix of commerce news and evergreen articles
- Write clear, concise copy
- Build commerce content on Content Management System, WordPress
- Proofread and edit posts before publication
- Submit work to editors for input and approval
- Ensure all-around consistency (style, fonts, images, and tone)
- Update website content as needed
- Work closely with a writing team, including content writers and editors
- Working closely with management to build online commerce traffic
- Follow an editorial calendar, collaborating with other members of the content production team to ensure timely delivery of materials
Requirements
- Excellent writing and editing skills- strong knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and spelling
- Understanding of commerce content writing
- Must have 1+ years of writing experience
- Have a basic grasp of Content Management Systems, CMS (e.g. WordPress)
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently with little daily supervision
- Ability to work/write quickly, efficiently, and meet tight deadlines
- A meticulous approach to work and an eye for detail
- Experience working in a cross-functional capacity within a dynamic, rapidly changing environment
- Ability to effectively manage project lifecycle through project management tools, including Asana and Slack
Creative Video Producer - Showrunner
The Company
Rare covers every corner of American culture with no slant or bias. We tell stories with heart, humor, and authenticity to celebrate American life. With a focus on news, media, and humor, we are a RARE voice in today’s media landscape. Rare Money is launching in Q3 2022.
About the Role:
We are looking for a talented Creative Video Producer with a dedication to style and story to join the team at our Nashville facility. This position will work directly with on-camera talent, writers, and editors to ensure timely delivery of periodic video content that aligns with the Rare Money brand voice and creative vision for each video series.
Responsibilities:
- Create original content from start to finish on a daily basis for distribution across multiple digital and social platforms
- Produce both short-form and long-form video and motion graphics at a high level
- Produce content in a variety of styles and techniques, while working within Rare Finance brand style guide
- Consistently seek out resources, ideas and methods to innovate in the production space and to motivate content creators
- Exercise creativity and self-motivation to contribute and actively be a part of a culture of professionalism and exceptional production
- Help lead, manage and support the video/motion graphics team members
- Coordinate projects, production schedules and department needs with the creative leadership team
- Help develop, implement, execute and manage department initiatives, workflows and processes
- Actively engage in the creative process for both post-production and livestream production needs; work with all parties to achieve defined goals.
- Coordinate delivery of produced content for distribution on acceptable channels.
- Assist with the logging and archiving of video content and the overall digital asset management
- Oversee all aspects of video content
- Direction post production of high-quality, short-form videos in a wide range of styles
- Oversee the creation and publishing of video versions specifically for each major platform (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, etc.) in line with established best practices
- Generate exciting and informative creative concepts focusing on stories the finance media space
- Work with other production staff to craft ideas into engaging and repeatable video series
- Develop, creative ideas for new video features, content and enhancements that advance objectives and strategic plan
- Participate in creative design and planning sessions with production staff
- Experience driving omni channel content strategy (written, video, newsletter) to engage audiences and attract brand sponsors
Experience/Skills/Qualifications:
- 8+ years (or equivalent) in video production, broadcasting, television, or similar discipline
- 3+ years of management experience
- 1-3 years relevant experience creating social-first videos
- Working knowledge of social platforms and history of growing audience scale via socials and other platforms to 50,000 or more
- Experience with live production and video series content preferred
- Ability to learn new systems quickly
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work quickly and efficiently, delivering high quality results under the pressure of deadlines, with routinely quick turnaround times
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills with strong attention to detail and high work standards
- Ability to work collaboratively with a team, independently, and under close direction
- Experience creating short-form video for platforms including Facebook, YouTube and, Instagram
- Track record of creating video that grows and engages social audiences organically
- Deep knowledge of social media video best practices, landscape and ability to recognize stories that drive engagement
- Strong visual storytelling abilities
- Team player and cross-functional skills/knowledge to cover other areas, as needed
Bonus Qualities
- Knowledge of digital marketing strategies and campaigns
- Experience creating budgets and profit/loss responsibility
- Experience in graphics and digital video design
- Passion for finance and finance-related topics (e.g. crypto, blockchain, alternate investments)
Studio/Production Equipment Manager
The Company
Savage Media is a fast-growing media and creative content studio headquartered in Nashville, TN. Our growth is fueled by the value we bring to our customers through the high-end products and services we deliver. At SM, we pride ourselves on being the right partner – someone who cares about what matters most, asks the right questions, and listens to what customers have to say We’re strategic business thinkers who know how to leverage technology. If you can dream it, we can deliver it. We do everything in-house. We understand budgets. We know how to stay within them and how to maximize them. We deliver what we promise – always. We are currently looking for talented individuals to join our growing team.
You:
You have experience with video production equipment and are comfortable operating a camera. You are detail-oriented and pride yourself in meticulously maintaining a well-run and organized gear room & studio space. You are motivated to make an immediate impact and grow your career. And of course, you want to join a super-talented team, who works hard, but has fun doing it.
Where:
SM is located in the Germantown area of Nashville, TN. Our brand new headquarters feature open workspaces, glass garage doors, patios, studio kitchen, sound stage and over 5,000 sq feet of collaborative space. This role is on-site.
About the Role:
The successful Studio/Production Equipment Manager will maintain, organize, repair and track all production equipment. Will research and recommend purchases for new equipment. Will consistently coordinate with producers, production manager and other crew to schedule equipment for shoots, and will manage our production studio. Will also have the ability to do basic camera operating for small, in-studio shoots.
Responsibilities:
• Basic Camera Operating for In-Studio Video Shoots
• Oversee and Maintain in-house production studio
• Tracking, Maintaining and Organizing all production gear and equipment
• Prep all gear for field shoots and often attend shoots and help out as a PA/Grip
• Ensure regular quality control of all gear
• Regular inventory of all gear and equipment
• Staying up to date on the latest gear and equipment trends
• Create, Implement and Enforce policies/procedures
• Willingness to learn all aspects of production (such as lighting for in-studio video shoots).
Requirements:
• Experience with basic camera operation (bonus if you have experience with high-end cinematic cameras (Red/Arri, etc.)
• Experience with production lighting and grip
• Motivated self-starter with extreme level of work ethic
• 1-2 years of experience in related field
Bonus Qualities
• Basic understanding of raid server maintenance
• Drone Flying Experience (or the desire to learn how to fly a drone
Growth Hacker
Director of Affiliate
3+ years of experience scaling affiliate revenue for media companies