Agency Marketing & Creative, Social Media and Content

The NES| Remote-friendly | Freelance/contract to start, scaling as the agency grows

Read this whole post. The application instructions at the bottom filter out 90% of people, and anyone who skips them gets deleted.

The NES is a brand partnerships collective working across sport, entertainment and culture. We advise and we deliver, across partnerships, marketing, events and content. We're a new agency with a point of view, and we need someone to make sure the world sees it. Your job is to build our presence, sharpen our brand, and turn attention into new business.

What you'll do

1. Polish the website.
Our site is built in Framer and it's close, but not finished. You'll work with the founder to tighten the copy, visuals and flow so it converts the attention your content creates.

2. Build our social channels from the ground up.
LinkedIn, TikTok and Instagram. You'll set the content strategy, create the assets, write the copy and post consistently. Each channel does a different job, and you'll know what that job is.

3. Write content that positions us.
Industry posts, opinion pieces and content that shows we know sport, entertainment and culture better than the agencies twice our size. The goal isn't likes. It's brand directors seeing our name enough times that when our BD team lands in their inbox, we're already familiar.

4. Drive new business.
Everything above serves the pipeline. You'll work alongside our business development lead so content and outreach pull in the same direction.

Who this is for
- You've used social media to actually grow a business, and you can show the before and after
- You can design, write and edit. You don't need a team of three to ship one post
- You write clean, natural English with personality. Nothing that reads like a template or like AI wrote it
- You're across what's working right now on LinkedIn, TikTok and Instagram, not what worked in 2023
- You have a genuine feel for sport, entertainment or culture. This space rewards people who actually care about it

Who this is NOT for
- People who post pretty content that goes nowhere commercially
- People who need a brief for every single post
- Anyone who'd pad engagement numbers or buy followers to make results look better. We'll know, and it ends the trial immediately

How the trial works
- Four-week paid trial
- You'll build out a plan to build our presence, set a content strategy and start shipping. Real posts, live channels, from week one
- Strategy and brand voice get agreed with the founder before anything goes out
- Pass = channels growing with the right audience, and content that's visibly building our position in the industry
- Show a clear line from your content to a new business conversation in those four weeks and you're locked in at the top of the range

Pay

[$400 - $550/month base depending on experience], with scope to grow as the agency does. Do this well and the role grows with the business you helped build.

How to apply (required, no exceptions)
- Start your message with the word CREATIVE so we know you read this far
- Send examples of past work: accounts you've run, content you've made, campaigns you've shipped
- Tell us how you've used social media to grow a business, with numbers where you have them
- Identify two or three current trends businesses should be using right now to grow and engage the right audiences
- Include any blog posts or long-form pieces you've written

Miss any of those five and you're auto-rejected.