We’re Hiring: Designers & Marketing/Sales Programs Associate

Want to help create our modern take on LGBT media?  Queerty and our sister company GayCities are hiring.  We’re looking for a full-time Marketing & Sales Programs Associate based in San Francisco and a few contract designers who can be based anywhere. If you fit one of the roles described below, send a cover letter to jobs AT gaycities DOT com

Contract Web UI & Graphic Designers

We’re looking for a few exceptional designers to take on small design projects on an hourly fee basis.   The projects vary widely but mostly fall into three categories:

• banner ad design for internal & cobranded campaigns,
• microsite design for custom promotions (recent examples: Coors Coldest, Best of GayCities,  Our New Normal)
• print design for marketing flyers, postcards and posters

We need people who have availability on a regular basis and can turn around projects quickly, professionally and with super high quality.  If you excel at one of more of these areas, please send a cover letter, hourly rate and link to design portfolio to jobs AT gaycities DOT com.

Marketing & Sales Associate (Based in San Francisco GayCities Office)

Our sales & marketing efforts are growing and we’re looking for a focused, professional, organized person with a strong customer service orientation to join the team. The job is a full-­time salaried position with health benefits and two weeks of annual vacation. The position is based in our San Francisco office.

In the role, you’ll wear a few hats:

• Sales & Marketing Programs Communications
  • Work with the team to distill the key elements of sales programs into useful and clear sales collateral
  • Produce professional media sales proposals using Powerpoint/Keynote
  • Produce “one-­?sheets” and other sales collateral using Keynote or Pages
• Project Manage and be responsible for organizing the successful execution of
  advertising & marketing programs
  • Own the overall project calendar for all advertising & marketing programs
  • Assist in the coordination of successful marketing events.
  • Manage enhanced listings order process & customer lists
  • Work with event partners, ensuring all line items of joint contracts are
    successfully executed
• Support our sales team
  • help them effectively sell digital/mobile advertising
  • Research and call potential customers to gather information and make them aware of GayCities & Queerty
  • Facilitate new sales inquiries and deliver sales materials (media kits, sell sheets) as necessary
  • Manage client/prospect advertising lists
  • Manage and organize sales orders, invoices and collateral documents on our
    shared server.

The ideal candidate is:

• Able to learn and demonstrate a solid working knowledge of digital advertising
  products and processes
• Self?directed and able to complete tasks in a timely and professional manner
• Able to work independently and with a team
• Organized and able to juggle multiple concurrent projects
• A good communicator with excellent written and verbal skills; able to interact
  professionally with potential clients
• Detail?oriented and accurate
• Proficient on the web and in Word, and Excel with advanced level Powerpoint skills.
• Experience using DFP and Photoshop preferred.

If this sounds like you, send a cover letter and resume to jobs AT gaycities DOT com