Careers

Phoenix New Times is seeking a creative and strategic Social Media Specialist to support our clients’ digital presence. This role focuses on designing and delivering engaging, on-brand content across multiple platforms including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Google Business Profile, and Pinterest for a diverse portfolio of clients. The ideal candidate will lead the development and execution of social media campaigns, ensuring each client’s voice is reflected through compelling storytelling, thoughtful design, and platform-specific strategy.

Responsibilities:
● Develop and implement social media strategies that align with each client’s business goals
● Set up, optimize, and maintain client profiles across all relevant platforms to maximize visibility and engagement
● Create, design, and manage content calendars, producing original text, images, videos, and GIFs tailored to each platform
● Monitor and respond to comments, messages, and reviews in a timely and professional manner on behalf of clients
● Use social media analytics tools to produce detailed monthly performance reports
● Analyze key metrics to provide strategic insights and recommendations that drive continual improvement
● Identify trends, tools, and opportunities to enhance campaign performance and audience engagement
● Support new business efforts by conducting research, social audits, and competitive analysis, while assisting team members and sales representatives throughout the social media management sales
● Build and nurture strong client relationships through clear communication and consistent performance
● Stay current on industry trends, platform updates, and design best practices to ensure content remains fresh and effective

Requirements:
● Proven experience in social media marketing or as a digital media specialist, including managing content and engagement for multiple clients or brands
● Deep interest in the social media landscape with strong knowledge of current trends, platform updates, and digital culture
● Proficient in Canva, Google Workspace, Meta Business Suite, and social media scheduling tools such as Sprout Social
● Strong writing, editing, and communication skills across photo, video, and text formats
● Skilled in social media reporting and analytics, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
● Ability to understand client business needs and develop strategies that align with their goals
● Detail-oriented, organized, and customer-focused, with strong multitasking capabilities and a positive attitude
● Fluency in English required; proficiency or working knowledge of Spanish is a plus
● Experience with Facebook Ads or other paid social advertising platforms is a plus

What We Offer
● Competitive salary of $40,000 – $50,000 per year, depending on experience
● Paid Time Off PLUS 8 Paid Holidays per year
● 401k w/ Company match
● Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, plus more!
● Business casual atmosphere.
● Office work environment.
● Career growth opportunities in a fun, fast paced work environment.

If you’re a creative, driven individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is excited to be part of a fun and collaborative team, we’d love to hear from you. Please submit your resume and cover letter to hiring@newtimes.com.

The award-winning Phoenix New Times is looking for an experienced, digitally focused Senior Editor, News to lead and manage its reporting team as well as be a local leader of the newsroom.

For more than 50 years, Phoenix New Times has brought the heat to its hard news beats and coverage of the city’s vibrant culture and food scenes. We’ve earned a reputation for publishing compelling stories that major media often miss — but make no mistake: this senior editor position will be expected to land scoops, guide unflinching exposés, and be first to high-impact stories in our endlessly fascinating city of 5 million people.

The most successful candidate for this role will have the skills, values, vision and passion needed to steer a best-in-class news vertical. This editor will report to the Voice Media Group national editor, and be among the leaders of our Phoenix newsroom, where this hybrid position is based. Remote candidates won’t be considered.

Phoenix New Times is published weekly in print, and daily online. Always free.

Key responsibilities

• Manage two full-time news reporters, along with freelance reporters and photographers, to produce a dozen or more weekly stories of varying speed and depth. Lead daily news meetings.
• Edit stories to a high sheen, with impeccable structure, flow and clarity. Ensure that headlines, photography, and data visualization capture the reader’s attention. Make sure stories adhere to our style, SEO best practices and social media strategies.
• Manage the editorial workflow for the news vertical, assigning stories to reporters and freelancers, monitoring deadlines, and ensuring a regular cadence of story output and balance.
• Plan news coverage.
• Manage a freelance budget.
• Write news stories as needed.
• Create and collaborate on vertical videos that bring our reporting and voice to audiences on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok.
• Recruit and manage freelancers. 
• Coach reporters and freelancers through pitching, reporting, writing, and editing.
• Build broad and diverse relationships so that sources, story ideas, research and reporting reflect the eclectic communities of Phoenix.
• Participate in our annual Best of Phoenix issue and other special issues or projects during the year.
• Work collaboratively with the Voice Media Group audience strategist on trending news and SEO best practices, and with the membership director on our membership program.

Who you are / what you bring

• A journalist with five-plus years in a newsroom and at least three years of full-time experience managing journalists and editing breaking, daily and enterprise stories.
• An organized, resourceful and proactive self-starter committed to accuracy and meeting deadlines.
• A proven ability to lead and inspire reporters, and to analyze data and analytics to understand our audiences.
• A working knowledge of — or eagerness to immerse yourself in — the character, people, politics and culture of Phoenix.
• Well-defined strategies to stay atop such coverage areas as politics, public health, criminal justice, cannabis, government, the environment and labor.
• A track record of breaking stories.
• Past work that displays crisp writing and a knack for magnetic, stylish storytelling.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience with open records requests.

Benefits

• Compensation range of $70,000 to $80,000.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
• 10 paid holidays, five paid sick days, and 14 paid days off per year.
• Hybrid work policy based in our downtown Phoenix office.

Phoenix New Times believes our journalism best serves our communities when we have a culturally diverse staff and freelancers with a range of voices. We are committed to creating and sustaining an environment of inclusion, diversity, empowerment and equality. We are at our strongest when all our team members are respected and included regardless of race, age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation and national origin. Women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender-nonconforming candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Think you’ve got what it takes? Email a cover letter, resume and links for three to five stories you reported or edited, along with a few sentences explaining the backstory of each piece and your role, to PHX-news-editor@voicemediagroup.com. Please put Senior Editor, News in the subject line.