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Marketing Specialist

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Uses AI tools for efficient marketing workflows
  • Designs graphics across multiple platforms
  • Writes B2B copy for DTC ecommerce brands
  • Executes social media content strategies

Responsibilities

  • Design graphics for marketing channels
  • Write engaging copy for various audiences
  • Manage and execute social content calendars
  • Stay updated on market and design trends

Key facts

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Time Management
  • Customer Service
  • Decision Making

About the company

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Common Thread Collective

Digital Marketing & SEO Agencies

Common Thread Collective is an ecommerce growth agency. We help businesses break through to their next tier of revenue by leveraging our formula: (Visitors x Conversion Rate x LTV) - Variable Costs = Profit. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we know what it’s like to watch a business grow and thrive against the odds. The “common thread” we’ve found between successful brands is simple: they have a clear business goal and they know how to set targets that ladder up to that goal. With teams dedicated to growing and scaling brands — across paid media, retention, and strategy — we’re in the business of translating big-picture goals into concrete steps and transforming those steps into real-world outcomes. Here’s another way of putting it: We know how to turn a dream into a reality. Whether the dream is to grow year-over-year, sell the business, or change the world, that shared dream is the common thread that unites us.

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryDigital Marketing & SEO Agencies
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

MARKETING SPECIALIST

Contract-to-Hire

A Marketing Specialist at CTC is a versatile, hands-on marketer who brings design and copy craft to life across our brand's channels. You will design graphics across our marketing channels — from YouTube thumbnails and social posts to slide decks and beyond; write B2B copy that speaks to DTC ecommerce brands; execute the social content calendar across LinkedIn, YouTube, and X, adapting each piece to fit the platform; and stay ahead of market and design trends. You use AI tools to work efficiently across all of it. Your job is to take a brief and turn it into on-brand, finished work, quickly.

This role begins as a 3–6 month contract engagement, with the intention of converting to a full-time position based on performance and fit.

 

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

This place isn’t for everyone, but it might be for you if…

 

YOU SET THE STANDARD 

  • You are committed to making decisions informed by research
  • Your customer service is referenced as the bar that others strive to emulate 
  • You take pride in arriving to meetings prepared with insight to contribute
  • You organize your time and say “no” appropriately so that you can attend to what is most critical 
  • You are committed to approaching challenge & failure with curiosity about how to improve
  • Your word is trustworthy; you do what you say you will 

 

YOU ARE DRIVEN TO INCREASE VALUE 

  • You are passionate about building brands for the next generation
  • You gather context ahead of meetings so that you arrive prepared with insight and input 
  • You clearly articulate your expertise so that even a beginner can understand the concept
  • You are in the habit of documenting and reporting your work

 

YOU CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT OF EXCELLENCE

  • You seek opportunities to refine your skills without being prompted
  • You desire to inspire others with your excellence and expertise 
  • You are willing to put in the reps to be an expert in your domain
  • You resist the temptation to play victim; instead, you take 100% ownership over outcomes  

 

What Success Looks Like

NECESSARY SKILLS

AI-ASSISTED MARKETING WORKFLOWS

  • Uses AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney/Firefly) daily to speed up ideation, drafting, and production
  • Knows when AI output needs human review, and can identify and correct off-brand or inaccurate output before it goes out

 

GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • Designs YouTube thumbnails, data-driven graphics, and social posts (LinkedIn, X) that are on-brand and built to earn clicks
  • Comfortable in at least one design tool (Canva, Figma, or Adobe Suite) and can adapt one asset across formats
  • Maintains visual consistency with brand guidelines across every format

 

B2B COPYWRITING FOR DTC ECOMMERCE

  • Writes copy that speaks to DTC ecommerce brand stakeholders, from CMOs to marketing managers
  • Adjusts tone and message for decision-makers versus end users within the same account
  • Builds copy appropriate to funnel stage, from top-of-funnel education to bottom-of-funnel conversion

 

SOCIAL MEDIA EXECUTION

  • Executes the social content calendar across LinkedIn, YouTube, and X, matching format and tone to each platform

 

TREND FLUENCY

  • Follows marketing, design, and social trends and can separate real signal from noise
  • Flags relevant trends to the team and can move quickly to execute once given direction to test one

 

NEXT-LEVEL SKILLS

EMAIL MARKETING

  • Understands when to send an email and why, mapping sends to funnel stage and calendar moments
  • Writes and structures email content that fits the goal of each send

 

VIDEO EDITING (LONG-FORM TO SHORT-FORM)

  • Identifies clippable, high-retention moments in long-form video and cuts them into short-form content
  • Comfortable in tools like CapCut, Premiere, or Descript for cutting, captioning, and formatting
  • Bonus: Adds simple motion or animation to social and video content to stand out in-feed

 

DOMAIN

MANAGEMENT

  • No direct reports — this is an individual contributor role

 

ORIENTATION

  • Internal — focused on elevating CTC’s own marketing and brand strategy rather than managing client accounts

 

FOCUS 

  • IC | Days & Weeks

 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?

 

DURING THE CONTRACT PERIOD (Months 1–6)

  • $28-35 per hour
  • Engaged as a 1099 contractor; benefits below begin upon conversion to full-time

 

UPON FULL-TIME CONVERSION

  • $62,000 – $82,000 base salary, annually
    • This is prior to any benefits (see the “ABOUT US” section for additional details)
  • Bonus Structure | 10% of base salary

ABOUT US

At CTC, we are fixated on building the next generation of legendary brands and the people who will lead them.

To give ourselves our best shot at accomplishing this mission, we organize all of our decisions — from recruiting, to hiring, to raises, to promotions, to how we spend our time and money — in the direction of three committed values.

We recognize these values aren't for everyone. They're challenging.

In fact, they're so challenging, that's why we invest so much in supporting our team and why we tend to attract people who are craving the opportunity to do more at work than get a paycheck. We're looking for those who are interested in making their work significant.

For those who resonate with the following values, CTC has proven itself to be a remarkable place to grow and thrive.

  1. We Set the Standard
  2. We Are Driven To Increase Value
  3. We Create an Environment of Excellence

 

We’ll come alongside you and care for you in your pursuits by offering full-time permanent CTC employees:

  • 401K | program with a 3% company match (post 90 days employment) to bring out the investor inside you
  • TIME OFF | When you’re at CTC, you’re firing on all cylinders. To make that possible, we offer a Flexible Time Off policy where you will coordinate with supervisor to take time away from the office for rest, travel, and variety of others things that are important to you!
  • MEDICAL | Full health, dental, and vision benefits that fit your lifestyle and goals
  • WELLNESS | A wellness reimbursement program that inspires 360 degrees of health: mentally, physically, and spiritually

 

CTC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We Embrace I.D.E.A. and are committed to fostering a culture of performance and inclusivity.

 

Common Thread Collective provides this Privacy Notice for California Consumers/Employees only to individuals residing in the State of California who are considered “Consumers” under the CCPA and from whom we collect “Personal Information” as described in the CCPA (“Consumers”). This CCPA Employee Privacy Notice sets forth our privacy practices as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). We provide you this notice because, under the CCPA, California Residents who are employees, employee applicants, or contractors qualify as Consumers. For purposes of this CCPA Employee Privacy Notice, when we refer to Consumers, we mean you to the extent you are a California employee, employee applicant, or contractor. To see our full policy, please click here.

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