We're Hiring!
Position: JR. GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Status: Full Time Employee
40 hours/week. During launches, live conferences, additional time will be required
Position: Community Engagement Associate
Status: 40 hours/week
Compensation: $18.25/ hour
Our Company Mission:
Our passion is changing the world one powerful message at a time by helping individuals, entrepreneurs, and organizations leverage speaking to build their business. Our mission is to REACH 1 billion people by winning 1 million stages in the next 10 years.  
Your Team:
This position will report directly to the Director of Customer Experience. This position will work closely and respectfully with all other AYR team members.  

This position will guide, encourage, support, communicate with, motivate, and ooze positivity to our customers and community. 
Position Summary:
The Community Engagement Associate will be in charge of digital fulfillment of the AYR membership programs. The Community Engagement Associate will be primarily responsible for community success tracking of one of our highest customer enclaves, the Accelerators, by monitoring the attendance at live workshops, engaging customers in facebook communities, monitoring the group’s zoom meetings with accelerators to keep them on track, managing the accelerator calendar and taking overall accountability for this group to ensure year to year renewals of the Accelerator Program. The Community Engagement Associate will also be responsible for community management of our Stage to Scale Customer group by keeping customers engaged through video announcements and other general communications on facebook groups after Launch. The Community Engagement Associate is a creative and passionate community manager, comfortable with online communities and social media, with excellent communication skills, and with the ability to thrive in a highly dynamic environment with a distributed team.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Community success tracking (monitoring accelerators and making sure they are following success pathing particularly for Reach Live Accelerators
  • ​Overall accountability for the Accelerator group and also engaging all general Customers in Facebook communities, zoom meetings, and on calls
  • ​Build and maintain a calendar of content, events, and activities designed to keep Accelerators engaged with the product and with AYR 
  • ​Own community managing for Stage to Scale group after Launch (keep people engaged, create and post video announcements on Facebook groups)
  • ​Monitor Attendance of AYR workshops by customers.
  • ​Moderate forums, answer members' questions, pass on actionable feedback to Sales and Customer Experience team, and help grow our budding community
  • ​Monitor community stats, track engagement, and issue resolution
  • ​Collaborate on defining and helping to execute the community engagement strategy driven by the Director of Customer Experience
  • ​Create player-facing resources and content such as articles, guides, videos, and FAQs to help enhance and deepen the customer experience
  • ​Develop a messaging plan that aligns with content calendar and is designed to keep engagement across these channels at a maximum level
  • ​Help stimulate and moderate Customer conversations across communication channels
  • ​Build an identity and develop an active and engaged relationship with AYR Customer
  • ​Assess the community’s pulse, understand community concerns, and communicate community status to the AYR Customer Experience team
  • ​Report on areas of concern for the community, surface trending topics/threads, and share/contextualize engagement metrics and KPI’s
  • ​Function in fast-paced situations and make quick judgment calls based on best practices, brand objectives, and insights
  • ​Work cross-functionally with the Sales, Marketing and CE departments to analyze performance and plan for optimization
Requirements:
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to create quality documentation for internal and external audiences
  • ​Strong understanding of social media services, mechanics, and trends, especially Facebook
  • ​Strong organizational skills and an independent, self-motivated work style
  • ​Proficiency with G-suite, particularly Docs, Forms, and Sheets.
  • Previous experience with customer first-contact and de-escalation a plus
  • ​Live and breathe digital community life
  • ​Are customer-obsessed
  • Experienced or have played around with creating video content for social media
  • Relish the challenge of growing and increasing engagement an audience via creative social media tactics
  • Are upbeat, creative, and eager to run experiments and try new ideas
  • ​Want to help others through excellent communication
  • ​Organized, articulate, and collaborative self-starter with the ability to easily communicate with internal stakeholders and clients alike
To apply, please email your resume and a brief introduction to our HR Manager, Erin Wahl (erin.wahl@advanceyourreach.com)
Our Company Mission:
Our passion is changing the world one powerful message at a time by helping individuals, entrepreneurs, and organizations leverage speaking to build their business. Our mission is to REACH 1 billion people by winning 1 million stages in the next 10 years.  
Your Team:
This position will report directly to our Director of Marketing and take creative direction from the Senior Designer.
This position will support the marketing team as well as creative needs in other departments.

Position Summary:
Our marketing is our face to the world, and the Junior Designer is a huge part of that. As a member of our Marketing team, you'll be collaborating closely with our Senior Designer to support our design needs company-wide! The marketing team works closely with various projects ranging from social media ads to video thumbnails to stage presentation decks, providing support to all departments within the company (Customer Experience, Product Development, Stages and Sales). This position is expected to be a team player, company-wide, and provide amazing support and service to both marketing team members as well as the AYR team as a whole.
Key Responsibilities:

General

  • Develop graphics to support communications in alignment with strategic business priorities; consistently ensuring that style and tone meet objectives and align with the company's external brand.
  • ​Experience in both print design and digital content design and strong technical skill(s) in other design disciplines.
  • ​Collaborate and coordinate with the marketing team and other departments to produce attractive and effective designs for all media types.
  • ​Communicate with senior team members to receive feedback
  • ​Coordinate effectively with outside contractors and colleagues as necessary
  • ​Maintain current folder structure organization within the AYR Google Drive
  • ​Creative out-of-the-box thinker with unique ideas

Digital Design

  • Produce landing page prototypes, in Adobe XD and work with developer to implement web page design
  • Maintain and assist with simple HTML updates to websites (ie: Wordpress and Clickfunnels)
  • Create digital marketing materials for social media and other platforms (i.e. Facebook ad images/gifs/videos and Instagram images)
  • ​Collaborate with videographer on graphics and creative

Print Design

  • Assist in the creation of visual aids for speaking events and workshops including Powerpoint/Keynote decks, and sales collateral (brochures, bookmarks, banners, contact cards, etc.) 
  • Create Marketing Collateral as needed such as email graphics, PDF handouts, workbooks, etc.
  • Collaborate with the Product Development Department to create assets for new programs

Special Events

  • Reach Live: This is our big, 3- or 4-day event that we do once a year. The Junior Designer will be responsible for helping with marketing campaigns and communication
  • Product launches: Support the marketing team as needed, during this time, hours will increase. 
Scorecard:
Our department is here to create raving fans – of customers AND non-customers. Besides Pete, and our speakers, we are the face of Advance Your Reach
 The better we fulfill this role, the more successful our company and our clients are. 

 Our Departmental Scorecard will be reviewed weekly by the Marketing Team to closely monitor trends in Scorecard metrics

Qualifications:
Key Competencies:

Our ideal Junior Designer is organized with extremely high attention to detail and high follow through. He/she has previous Marketing Experience, and has the following competencies:

1. Level of Care:
Love our market and be motivated and enthusiastic about spreading the vision of the company to create raving fans.  
Desire to create materials and content that will serve them 

2. Marketing knowledge
Know and understand how marketing has changed and is continuing to change
Use direct response marketing to engage and convert

3. Adaptability
Demonstrates flexibility in the face of change
Projects a positive demeanor regardless of pivoting in working conditions
Shows the ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities without loss of composure

4. Organization
Time Management: Determines the appropriate allocation of time
Space Management: Effectively manages the workspace (i.e. keeps a clean and organized office, appropriately handles all paperwork, maintains control over the physical environment, etc.)
Task Management: Balances conflicting priorities in order to manage workflow, ensure the completion of essential projects, and meet critical deadlines

5. Proactivity
Demonstrates the ability to foresee problems and prevent them by taking action
Utilizes analytical skills and a broad understanding of the business to effectively interpret and anticipate needs
Be willing to take on anything, at any time, doing whatever it takes to complete amazing end results.

6. Communication Skills
Listening skills: Understands that the most important aspect of communication is the act of listening and actively works to improve those skills
Oral skills: Speaks with confidence using clear, concise sentences and is easily understood
Written skills: Produces well thought-out, professional correspondence free of grammatical and spelling errors
Telephone/E-mail: Uses high quality, professional oral and written skills (as described above) to project a positive image of the business

7. Client Service (both external and internal clients – such as the Sales Department)
Interacts professionally with clients and associates at all times
Warm Personality to our Stakeholders.
Promptly responds to requests with accuracy and a courteous demeanor

8. Business Understanding
Demonstrates an awareness of fundamental business principles as well as an understanding of both our offerings and the industry we serve.

9. Team Player
Works as a competent member of the team, willingly providing back-up support for co-workers when appropriate and actively supporting group goals

10. Computer/Technical Skills
Display proficiency using standard office equipment such as a computer, scanner, etc.

Demonstrate advanced proficiency by quickly adapting to new technology and easily acquiring new technical skills

Have a comprehensive understanding of the following graphic design tools:
Adobe Creative Cloud:
Photoshop
InDesign
Illustrator
Shared Creative Libraries
Knowledge in Adobe After Effects or other animation software is a bonus
Presentation Programs:
Keynote
Powerpoint
Google Slides
Wordpress
Clickfunnels
In addition, have knowledge of/or comfortable with learning:
Google G-Suite/Drive
Dropbox
Vimeo/Wistia
Amazon S3
Skitch or another screen capture software
Communication/Organization Apps:
Teamwork
Slack

11. Judgment
Exhibit sound judgment and the ability to make reasonable decisions in the absence of direction
Swiftly refer problems/issues to the appropriate person(s) when necessary
Work effectively without constant and direct supervision or guidance


12. Efficiency
Not only utilize but excels at the use of TeamWork Project Management and Slack.
Work diligently to find solutions to questions/issues before reaching out to other team members.
To apply, please email your resume and a brief introduction to our HR Manager, Erin Wahl (erin.wahl@advanceyourreach.com)