About Us and Why We’re Hiring
We promote “You Want a Finances,” the very best budgeting software program and academic assets round. (These within the know name us YNAB, which is pronounced “why-nab.”) For greater than a decade, folks have been shopping for YNAB after which telling their mates what a distinction it has made of their lives. Google us, or learn a few of our opinions on the app retailer, and also you’ll see what we imply. We love sharing one thing that has an enormous optimistic affect on folks’s lives.
For this place, we’re in search of a social media aficionado who’s smitten by sharing YNAB to the far reaches of the web. Do you could have the flexibility to create can’t-take-my-eyes-off-it content material, write enchanting copy, and coordinate/play good with others? We’re in search of somebody who screams YNAB by and thru (however not like…precise screaming) and is comfy being their pleasant self in entrance of an viewers.
Need to discuss instruments and platforms? We’ve acquired a rising social media presence on TikTok, Instagram, Fb, and Twitter—the place we make budgeting enjoyable, pleasant, and accessible for the plenty. Our content material is organized in Notion, pictures are created in Canva, scheduled in Later and Agorapulse, and communicated by way of Slack. Not conversant in these instruments but? That’s okay! Simply have an urge for food for studying and that’ll take you far round right here.
And that’s not all—we now have massive plans for our social media workforce, together with increasing our short-form video attain, attempting out some adverts on SnapChat, and establishing a presence on Pinterest. Might you be the one to assist us develop into these new territories?
Agency* necessities:
- You’ve gotten at the least two years of social media expertise. For us, this implies you are feeling comfy navigating totally different platforms, have a fundamental information of social media algorithms, and like to create content material.
- You’re positioned someplace between the Jap Time Zone (UTC-4) and the Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8).
*Nicely, firm-ish. If, as an illustration, you recognize you’re a fantastic match for this function however fall a bit of wanting the two-year requirement, we encourage you to go forward and apply. We don’t want you to be the proper candidate on paper. (On the same observe, we all know imposter syndrome is usually a highly effective pressure, and should discourage implausible folks from making use of. Please apply anyway. Many people right here have it too, so that you’re in good firm.)
We promise to enter extra element about what you’ll be engaged on! However first, it is advisable to know in the event you’ll even like working with us. Let’s speak a bit about life at YNAB.
We’re worthwhile, bootstrapped, and rising. YNAB began in 2004 and we haven’t taken any exterior funding—we’re in it for the lengthy haul. Now we have one overarching requirement relating to becoming a member of our workforce: our authentic Core Values Manifesto has to actually click on with you. For those who’re nodding emphatically whereas studying it, you’ll most likely actually prefer it right here, and we are able to’t wait to listen to from you!
We reside our Core Values each day at YNAB, and we imply it once we say we’re an equal alternative employer. We imagine {that a} variety of backgrounds, skills, beliefs, and experiences are essential to our success, and we’re keen about making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative surroundings for all staff. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a sensible, hard-working, and various workforce who loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.
We additionally work actually laborious, collectively, to make working at YNAB a tremendous expertise, and we had been (humbly) proud to be named Fortune’s #1 Greatest Small Firm to Work For for the final two years. Now we have a workforce filled with really distinctive folks—the type you’ll be excited to work with. We’d like to introduce you to some of them!
Who you’d be working with:
On this function, you’ll be collaborating often with creatives throughout our complete advertising and marketing workforce, and dealing instantly with:
Veronica, Group Supervisor: Veronica lives in Texas along with her household of 5 and her accident-prone-but-adorable Pointer, Jarvis (who attends most of our workforce conferences). Whenever you’re round Veronica, you are feeling valued, heard, and proper at dwelling. You might acknowledge her from her appearances on Instagram Reels and Tales, and she or he has a hand in a lot extra behind the scenes. She has a pulse on our communities and loves collaborating with different entrepreneurs to make massive issues occur. She’s a tremendous chief who encourages you to embrace your individuality and creativity and harness it for good right here at YNAB.
Sarah, Social Media Supervisor: For those who’ve scrolled by any of our social platforms, you immediately acknowledge Sarah’s simple going nature and comforting smile. We will’t inform you the place Sarah lives as a result of as you’re studying this, she’s exploring the nation along with her household of their model new full-time camper life! Sarah is our resident professional on all issues associated to social media; she manages our complete social technique and is the very best sounding board for brand spanking new concepts. Speaking with Sarah will undoubtedly energize and encourage you to dream massive relating to social content material and the methods we are able to attain our YNAB communities.
Faness, Social Media Coordinator: Faness grew up in California however now lives in Columbus, OH along with her household and fur child, Loki. She manages our group and content material scheduling throughout all platforms, whereas additionally operating our Twitter account. For those who spend greater than 30 seconds speaking to Faness, you’ll adore her!
How You’ll Work at YNAB
Now that you just’ve met a few of your potential future teammates, let’s speak extra about YNAB as an organization. Right here’s how we function:
Stay (Virtually) Anyplace You Need
We’ve all the time been a completely distant workforce, and have folks everywhere in the world. For this function, although, you’ll should be positioned someplace between the Jap Time Zone (UTC-4) and the Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8), as a result of great amount of synchronous communication wanted with the remainder of the advertising and marketing workforce. Wherever you might be, simply ensure you have a dependable web connection.
No Outrageous Hours
We wish everybody to have a full life exterior of YNAB, and we seldom work greater than 40 hours per week. There have been just a few events the place issues acquired busy and other people needed to put some further time in. However then they took some further break day, so all of it balances out. We work laborious and sensible, however we’re on this for the lengthy haul.
Take Trip (Significantly)
We wish you to take trip. Actually, we now have a minimal trip coverage of three weeks per yr. 5 weeks feels about proper (plus two further weeks for our company-wide December break). It’s essential to get loads of downtime and get out and do one thing. We’ll sit up for seeing photos of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel!
The YNAB Retreat
When the pandemic isn’t conserving us from touring, we get the entire workforce collectively yearly to atone for spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Greatest Western convention room. Simply kidding. To date, we’ve accomplished Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seashore home within the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, and most not too long ago, Laguna Seashore. We work collectively, play collectively, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a workforce and firm. Yearly, we depart refreshed, motivated, and excited for the yr forward collectively.
Up Your Sport
We’re severe about serving to you enhance your craft. We price range for it (hey-o!). Assume conferences, subscriptions, books, and devoted time away from work to study one thing new… It’s actually as much as you and your supervisor. However we like to see our folks rising.
U.S. or Worldwide? Nice!
Our workforce is unfold throughout the globe, together with Switzerland, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, the UK, and everywhere in the United States. We presently arrange workforce members who reside within the U.S. or U.Okay. as staff, and those that reside in different international locations as unbiased contractors. You’re an equal a part of the workforce regardless of the place you reside!
As talked about above, we now have a while zone restrictions for this function, however so long as you’re between UTC-4 and UTC-8, we’re good!
Advantages
For those who reside within the U.S., you’ll be eligible for our well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage, the place we cowl 100% of the premium for you and your loved ones. No have to examine your imaginative and prescient, you learn that proper—100%. Though in the event you did have to examine your imaginative and prescient, NBD, we’ve acquired you lined!
We even have a Conventional and Roth 401(ok) possibility. YNAB matches your contributions as much as six p.c, and matches vest instantly. (Are you a private finance junkie like our founder Jesse? He arrange YNAB’s 401k to have the bottom price construction potential, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds obtainable are implausible, passively-managed, extremely low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.)
We additionally provide beneficiant paid parental depart for all full-time workforce members. (Right here’s to rising the world’s budgeters, one baby at a time!)
Aggressive Compensation
The beginning wage vary for this place is $47,000-$53,000 USD yearly, relying on expertise. We contemplate raises yearly, and have a bi-annual profit-share bonus, which you’re in on from day one. YNAB wins, you win—that type of factor.
Different Tidbits
- When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING approach) that you just fill out your “Bucket Listing” spreadsheet with 50 gadgets. (That’s more durable than it sounds!)
- The bucket checklist actually helps in deciding what we should always provide you with in your birthday and the vacations.
- We’re all adults. There’s no have to punch a clock, or ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to go see the physician. We take a look at what you accomplish, not how lengthy you’re in entrance of a pc.
- We wish you firing on all cylinders so we’ll set you up with a top-of-the-line laptop and cellphone (sure, a second cellphone to advertise work-life steadiness) and can substitute them often.
- Did I point out we make an enormous, optimistic distinction in folks’s lives? You might not suppose that issues a lot, however then just a few months down the highway you’ll notice it’s made your job actually, actually pleasurable. Don’t underestimate this one!
If this feels like your ultimate surroundings, learn on as a result of now we wish to discuss you, and the way you’ll play an enormous half in altering folks’s lives.
You’re a social media fanatic who is able to concentrate on content material and group! You’re keen about maintaining with digital media developments and are typically the primary one to share a meme with a good friend. You’ve gotten expertise with at the least two social media platforms, equivalent to TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, Fb, and Twitter.
You’re comfy on digital camera and are able to roll with an evidence on Instagram Tales, a YNABer interview on Instagram Stay, or a 30-second tutorial on TikTok. Hair misplaced? Doesn’t matter—you understand how to roll with the punches and be your genuine self, bedhead and all.
You might be naturally humorous and type. You possibly can effortlessly step into the YNAB voice and make the Web chuckle/like/share. You even have a thick pores and skin (or are keen to develop one shortly!) to cope with backlash when your humorousness doesn’t land proper or when the trolls are out sniffing (and typing) round, which can occur every so often.
You genuinely like, perceive, and join with folks. Countless questions or suggestions don’t tire you, and you’re keen on brainstorming sesh.
You might be comfy and assured writing copy and might step proper into the YNAB voice. You have already got at the least a dozen new concepts for partaking memes, TikToks, or Instagram Tales.
Working alongside Veronica, Sarah, and Faness, you’ll do issues like:
- Create quick kind video content material for Reels, TikTok, and different social media platforms.
- Create informational, shareable, and humorous graphics in Canva for our feeds.
- Write copy to make use of as captions for content material.
- Set up, schedule, and publish social media content material.
- Repurpose content material from our different platforms to make use of on Pinterest.
- Hearken to YNABer tales and work out the place and find out how to inform them.
- Reply to social media feedback and DMs.
- Have interaction with and get a really feel for the fluctuating vibes inside our social media communities.
- Acquire and report on information from all of our social media platforms.
- Eat and sustain with trending content material.
- Reply follower questions and interview YNABers on reside video.
You’re our particular person if:
- You might be genuinely enthusiastic about all issues social media.
- You’ve gotten a fundamental understanding of how social media algorithms work.
- You’re a powerful author who’s comfy writing social media copy and might step proper into the YNAB voice.
- You’re employed properly independently but additionally get pleasure from artistic collaboration.
- You are feeling pure on digital camera.
- You might be eager at choosing up the nuances of what’s going on round you and figuring out and responding appropriately.
- You’re comfy with ambiguity and do properly with obscure instructions, however aren’t afraid to ask questions.
- You’ve gotten a powerful humorousness as a result of, properly, we’re hilarious.
- You genuinely like, perceive, and join with folks.
- You’re comfy below strain and adverse feedback simply roll off your again.
The best way to Apply
- Apply under by 11:59PM PST on Sunday, April twenty fourth, 2022. Agency. It’s an actual deadline. Like, after it’s too late.
- Connect a PDF of your cowl letter. In your cowl letter:
- Introduce your self and clarify why this place is of curiosity to you, and why you’ll be a fantastic match. Please attempt to restrict this to at least one web page.
- On the second web page of your cowl letter, please reply these questions:
- What social media platform is your favourite? Why?
- What’s your greatest pet peeve on social media?
- What’s your favourite piece of content material you created and the one which carried out the very best?
- Lightning Spherical!
- If YNAB began a band—what would we name it?
- Write a YNAB-themed inspirational quote.
- Adapt a preferred meme to YNAB tradition—prepared go!
- Connect a PDF resume. For those who don’t have a resume since you aren’t even certain you’re trying to change jobs, that’s tremendous! A casual overview of your work and schooling historical past are all we’re in search of.
- Our objective is to make the interview course of as accessible as potential. If we can assist you with an accessibility want throughout this course of, please electronic mail us at [email protected] and point out the function you’re making use of for within the topic line. (Please observe that we are able to solely reply to messages associated to lodging.)
- Observe: although we all know it’s customary in some areas, we’d want in the event you didn’t share a headshot in your software supplies. Thanks!
We’re excited to listen to from you!
P.S. We’ll ship you a affirmation electronic mail when you apply. Please add that electronic mail to your secure sender checklist, to make sure that future emails come by. (For those who don’t obtain it, please examine your Promotions inbox, junk folder, or any filters you will have arrange.)
P.P.S. For those who’re not concerned with or obtainable for this place, however know somebody who’s, we’d actually respect it in the event you handed this alongside!
