Social Media Marketing Scientist Application

Join the 2015 happiest company in the world. (Since then apparently other companies got a lot happier…)
Work from home.
Set your own hours.
Unlimited vacation.
Health insurance.
Retirement plans with employer matching.
Design, Implement, and Test your digital marketing ideas.
Help small businesses grow and become more profitable through effective Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Google Ads marketing.

Bottom Line: You should have experience producing digital marketing that generates new leads however you also MUST be passionate about continually learning, growing, and getting better.

As part of the interview process, you will be required to share some of the results of your sweet marketing campaigns. The ideal recruit will have experience generating leads through social media for local businesses.

A major part of your job will be building a relationship with clients as their trusted advisor. Because of this, you need to be located in one of the North American time zones, fluent in written and spoken English, and flexible for video conference meetings with clients each day.

Your sweet skills

A social media marketing scientist loves using their analytical left and creative right brain.

In other words, you should have top-notch social media lead generation skills with a penchant for taking complex concepts and explaining them in easily-digestible ways using images, videos, infographics and great copy.

Additionally, you’ll be a bit obsessed with number-crunching analytics.

One of the most exciting parts about internet marketing is that in very short order you can take your marketing ideas, test them, and see what really works… And what doesn’t.

So if you love creating new lead generation material and then learning how well it performs in the wild, then you’ll love working on our team.

Our team does WordPress websites, SEO, Google Search Ads, Bing Search Ads, Facebook Marketing, YouTube Marketing, copywriting, conversion rate optimization including landing page split-testing and anything else we find that will help generate more leads for our clients. We bring Fortune 500 web technology to small businesses to turn their websites into small Marketing Research Laboratories.

And we’re good at it.

Here’s why…

We hire the brightest, most talented, and passionate people…
Train them into our unique culture and process for helping small, service-based businesses…
Then we unleash them.

Here’s the thing… If you truly are talented and passionate and you have good habits for managing your time, you don’t need a boss breathing down your neck about the TPS reports (thank you Office Space).

Instead, we provide the tools like…

  • Structure on how to continually improve the lead-generation for our customers. (We have an excellent system in place already. Hopefully you can improve it.)
  • Support from team members who can answer your questions.
  • A budget to pay for your own continual education and learning.
  • A framework for how to to setup scientifically valid marketing experiments and PROVE your idea works (or prove it doesn’t).
  • The freedom to run with your ideas. Without red tape, bureaucracy, or interference.
  • Specialized Deep Work training to help you train your mind to focus and improve cognition.
  • Help and support to get the most out of your Remote Work environment.

Pay ranges from $20/hour (if you’re working part time) and $45,000 to $75,000/year depending on your current skills and experience.

You may be the perfect match if you have extensive skills in: 

  1. Developing value propositions 
  2. Online lead generation 
  3. Facebook Ads 
  4. YouTube Marketing
  5. Google Analytics 
  6. Familiarity with the Scientific Method 

Bonus points if you are fluent in English and Spanish or have experience:

  • Scripting, recording, or editing Video for marketing
  • Marketing in Canada
  • Generating leads in Google Search, Google Display, and Bing Search campaigns
  • Improving website performance with conversion rate optimization 
  • Have graphic design or infographic creation skills
  • Marketing with LinkedIn
  • Email marketing campaigns

Just be sure to prove to us you can learn quickly, can write marketing copy, enjoy numbers that tell a story, and are passionate about helping our customers.

What will be expected of you

As with any business that’s young and growing, your position will evolve however here are the basics for now.

  1. Manage 25+ digital accounts. (most have less than $1000/month budgets but can go up to $10k/month)
  2. Develop new Youtube, Facebook and Instagram lead-generation strategies including campaign setup, targeting, ad creation and ongoing optimization.
  3. Cultivate a relationship and clearly communicate in clear, concise language with all of your clients.
  4. Outline new landing page ideas for our team to develop on WordPress.
  5. Apply conversion rate optimization to websites to continually improve our clients’ Return On Investment.
  6. Analyze performance in Google Analytics to find areas to improve.
  7. Analyze Google Search Ads, SEO, and Social Media performance to optimize limited budgets to the areas that generate the best results.
  8. Invest time each week in your education to stay on top of the latest internet marketing trends.
  9. Develop new ideas and methods for generating leads online for small, service-based businesses.
  10. Be awesome and have fun!

Our Hiring Process

We have had team members work from 10 different states. When you have a work-from-home operation in such a quickly-changing industry our process has to be a bit unique.

Here’s our approach…

There are basically 4 stages:

  1. A series of Interviews – including some skills, personality, and aptitude tests.
  2. Part-time for ~10-15 hour/week – This will be a paid project and allows you to get up-to-speed on our team, customers, what we do and also get a feel for working from home effectively. Often this can be done nights and weekends while we ensure this is the perfect match for everyone.
  3. Part-time 25-30 hours/week (optional) – If this is mutually beneficial, now you really get to take off. You’ll never be micromanaged but at this juncture you know the big picture, our processes and procedures for generating more leads, and it’s up to you to improve our client’s web presence. This is extremely fun and rewarding because it’s very self-directed but with some of our other experts an IM or Google Hangouts chat away.
  4. Full Time – Welcome to an elite club of internet marketing gurus! You will be one of the best in the industry at this point and will continue to grow and learn just as fast as you can handle. You’ll have some seriously sweet perks to go along with your new super-geek status and our goal is to continue to expand those as we increase in profitability.

We are a profitable 9-year-old business with NO venture capital money, debt, or outside investors.

You will be team member number 13. You will be expected to contribute and you will have a blast because we have a ton of fun!

We’re remarkably good at online lead generation…
But we are even better at recruiting.

Fill out the application below and see if you have what it takes to be recruited by Optimized Marketing.

As a side note, if you currently work for any of our customers, your application will not be considered.

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