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Society 18 is seeking a highly organized, creative, and proactive Associate of Events, Social & Influencer Marketing to support the agency's creator partnerships, experiential marketing initiatives, social media presence, and day-to-day operations.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, loves bringing ideas to life, enjoys wearing multiple hats, and is passionate about influencer marketing, social media, events, and creator culture.

The Associate will work cross-functionally across events, social media, talent, partnerships, and operations while helping execute high-impact campaigns and experiences for creators and brand partners.

• Manage day-to-day content planning for Society 18's Instagram and LinkedIn channels.
• Develop monthly content calendars aligned with agency campaigns, partnerships, creator announcements, and events.
• Write engaging social media copy, captions, and assist with music selection for short-form content.
• Design graphics in Canva, including creator announcements, milestone graphics, birthday posts, event promotions, partnership assets, and press announcements.
• Film and edit Instagram Reels, creator spotlights, event recap videos, and partnership content using CapCut.
• Maintain Instagram feed planning and overall visual consistency.
• Schedule and publish content across social media platforms.
• Publish Instagram Stories daily.
• Engage with creators, brand partners, and community members through comments and direct messages.
• Maintain creator posting trackers to ensure balanced representation across agency channels.
• Develop quarterly newsletters and email marketing campaigns in Flodesk.
• Create LinkedIn content highlighting agency partnerships, company milestones, leadership updates, and industry news.
• Build and maintain creator pages on the Society 18 website.
• Update creator biographies, follower counts, categories, and roster information as needed.

• Assist with planning and executing creator dinners, networking mixers, brand activations, gifting experiences, industry events, and experiential campaigns from concept through post-event reporting.
• Develop and maintain event production documents, including run-of-show schedules, timelines, itineraries, outreach trackers, and production checklists.
• Research, source, and coordinate event venues, restaurants, and vendor partners.
• Build and maintain agency venues and preferred vendor databases.
• Coordinate pricing, proposals, availability, contracts, and logistics with vendors.
• Support sponsorship outreach and assist in preparing partnership proposals and presentations.
• Manage creator invitations, RSVPs, guest lists, and attendee communications using CreatorIQ, Partiful, Airtable, and Google Sheets.
• Coordinate gifting logistics, product shipments, and vendor deliveries for events.
• Prepare Independent Contractor Agreements (ICAs), NDAs, vendor agreements, and supporting documentation.
• Organize event assets, contracts, invoices, presentations, production documents, and creative files in Dropbox.
• Provide on-site event support, including setup, vendor management, guest check-in, production coordination, and event breakdown.
• Capture behind-the-scenes photo and video content for real-time social media coverage.
• Create post-event recap presentations in Canva and track creator coverage using Archive.

• Pitch creators for brand activations, networking events, creator trips, fashion weeks, festivals, and industry experiences, including ESSENCE Festival, New York Fashion Week, Coachella, and other cultural moments.
• Support creator onboarding by updating internal databases, website profiles, onboarding materials, and social media assets.
• Assist with proactive creator pitching for paid brand partnerships.
• Support talent scouting initiatives and maintain the agency's talent scouting database.
• Research new creators, emerging trends, and partnership opportunities.

• Coordinate meetings, calendars, and scheduling with creators, brands, vendors, and internal team members.
• Prepare meeting agendas, capture notes, and distribute follow-up action items.
• Maintain internal databases, presentations, production trackers, reporting dashboards, and operational documents.
• Research and source brand contacts across beauty, fashion, travel, hospitality, wellness, food & beverage, and lifestyle industries using Apollo, Airtable, LinkedIn, and additional research tools.
• Support day-to-day agency operations and assist with special projects as assigned.l

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations, Event Management, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 1–3 years of experience in influencer marketing, social media, events, talent management, PR, or a related field.
• Exceptional organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong creative eye for branding, design, and social content.
• Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively.

The ideal candidate is creative, resourceful, highly organized, and excited to help build meaningful experiences for creators and brand partners. They enjoy bringing ideas to life, solving problems, collaborating across teams, and staying on top of emerging social and cultural trends. They are equally comfortable planning an event, editing a Reel, coordinating logistics, mentoring interns, or supporting creator partnerships—always with a positive attitude and strong attention to detail.