Culture and Trends Manager

Salt is hiring a ‘Culture and Trends Manager’ working towards shaping and improving the understanding of one of the web’s most creative ecosystems. You’ll join a team which uses data to track trends and connect content to users. This includes community-focused initiatives, and other projects built around popular content across numerous verticals including entertainment, news, music, Shorts and more. You’ll oversee communication around popular trends, channels and videos and develop calendar-based and breaking news programming strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Brand Marketing support: Support priority trends driven marketing projects for by overseeing curation of emerging creators, new communities and breakout short form media trends.
• Video/channel level review: Oversee vendor operation for quality review of popular videos/channels
• Research Intelligence: Oversee’ always-on’ trends research conducted by vendor partners in Japan for development of trends weekly newsletters.

Mandatory Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of experience telling stories related to web content, pop culture, technology or news.
• Fluent (written & spoken) Japanese + English
• Passion for the web video/YouTube and digital video culture

Non-Essential Skills/Qualifications:

• Prior experience in media/big tech/new publishing
• Experience working as a journalist for a medium-to-large editorial brand.
• Experience working in breaking news environments.
• Ability to effectively operate in a fast-paced environment and work on multiple projects simultaneously within a constantly evolving context.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to collaborate with partners and other cross-functional teams.

Manage your job search in the right direction by applying via the links below. Alternatively, you can reach out on nagarwal@welovesalt.com for more details. (CEI No: R1223390 | License No: 07C3147)

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.