Social Media Coordinator

Social Media Operations Coordinator — Part-Time Contract Location: New York City area. Hybrid but not a fully remote job. Occasional commute to NYC required. Schedule: Approximately 20–25 hours per week Compensation: $25–$28 per hour, depending on experience Engagement: Independent contractor; initial 90-day engagement with the potential to continue Experience level: Early career About Orahi Labs Orahi Labs is a fast-growing media platform founded by a former technology CEO, board member, AI advisor, investor, and creator. You can check out our flagship show on YouTube: The platform focuses on personal and professional growth in the AI era. Since launching last year, it has grown to more than 1.6 million subscribers and followers across YouTube, Spotify, our newsletter, and other platforms. That growth continues to accelerate. We are now building the internal team and operating systems required to support the next stage of the company. About the role (You must be able to be in-person in NYC occasionally.) This is a strong opportunity for someone in the early stages of their career who wants to learn how a modern media company is built and operated. You will work closely with the founder, Chief of Staff, Creative Director, editors, designers, and external partners. Bring your curiosity, ambition, and willingness to take ownership. We will bring a genuine commitment to developing the next generation of operators, creators, and entrepreneurs. Your primary responsibility will be to keep a high-velocity content engine humming. You will own the operating layer between finished content and its audience: content calendars, assets, approvals, deadlines, publishing, quality control, analytics, and reporting. You will coordinate with a global team to ensure that the right content, in the right format, reaches the right audience at the right time. Over time, there will also be opportunities to expand into marketing, partnerships, outreach, automation, and broader project management. We are a startup. People who show initiative will have room to grow. What you will do Own and maintain the publishing calendar across YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, newsletters, podcast feeds, and other distribution channels. Collect and organize the assets required for each release, including videos, thumbnails, captions, titles, descriptions, links, metadata, and approvals. Coordinate with brands, agencies, platforms, and external partners when additional assets or information are required. Schedule and publish content accurately, ensuring that all platform-specific formatting, links, thumbnails, metadata, and other details are correct. Coordinate deadlines and dependencies across editors, designers, creative leads, and external partners. Identify missing inputs, unclear ownership, and potential delays before they become problems. Maintain project-management systems so that priorities, owners, deadlines, and status are always current and visible. Compile weekly performance reports for the Creative Director. Track key platform metrics and flag unusual results, emerging patterns, opportunities, and operational issues. Help document and automate recurring workflows so the operation becomes more efficient over time. What success looks like Within your first 90 days: The content calendar is accurate, current, and trusted by the entire team. Posts go live on schedule without preventable mistakes. Missing assets, unclear ownership, and deadline risks are identified early. A useful weekly analytics report is delivered consistently. Recurring workflows are documented, improved, and increasingly automated. You may be a good fit if You have run a social media channel on your own, including creating and posting unique content. You have zero to three years of relevant experience, including internships, campus organizations, freelance work, or managing accounts for a brand, publication, podcast, or creator. Creativity and taste is a must. You understand how people discover, connect, and engage with differentiated content across different social platforms. You are unusually organized and detail-oriented. You take pride in your work and enjoy catching errors that others miss. You can manage several parallel workstreams, priorities, and deadlines without losing track of details. You are comfortable learning new tools and improving existing processes. You can work with spreadsheets and interpret metrics such as views, reach, engagement, retention, follower growth, and click-through rates. You communicate clearly, write exceptionally, follow through reliably, and raise problems early rather than waiting to be asked. You are curious, resourceful, and willing to figure things out independently. Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Media, or a related field. A relentlessly curious mind is essential. Helpful, but not required Experience with YouTube Studio, Meta Business Suite, LinkedIn, Spotify for Creators, or similar publishing tools. Experience with Notion, Asana, Airtable, Monday.com, or another project-management system. Familiarity with creator-led media, podcasts, newsletters, or digital publishing. Basic Canva, image-resizing, or lightweight design skills for occasional operational fixes. Comfort using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other emerging platforms. Interest in automation and improving repetitive workflows. Orahi Labs considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Orahi Labs