About North Strategic

North Strategic is Canada’s fastest-growing, national public relations and social media agency. In just five short years, North has grown to three offices across Canada with more than 60 full-time team members specialising in PR, social media, and content creation. The first PR agency in Canada to eliminate timesheets, our unorthodox structure allows every member of our team the complete flexibility to work collaboratively and cross-train between each of our three disciplines.

North is agency of record for many of the most recognized and sought after brands in Canada – including Tim Hortons, Canadian Tire, Samsung, Canada Goose, Sport Chek and many others – due in large part to our team’s track record for creating exciting, disruptive, and market-leading work. Our industry has noticed.

North is the only PR agency to be named to Marketing Magazine’s Top 10 agencies in Canada for three consecutive years, including a Top 3 finish in 2015. North was also recognized by the prestigious New York City-based Holmes Report as Canada’s PR Agency of the Year in 2015 and shortlisted for this year’s award. These achievements are a strong reinforcement of the work we do for our clients, but it is our unwavering commitment to our team – the people who create our award-winning content – that has positioned North as one of the most desired agencies to work for in Canada.

Position Responsibilities:

• Very strong in account management
• New business experience is a must
• Proficient in social media as well as digital (experience with social advertising is an asset)
• Some ad agency experience is preferred (understanding creative for social media and overall content strategy & development)
• Building strategic social media campaigns to grow client communities and achieve business goals
• Leading strategies around customer service related issues to enhance Brand community experience
• Building social advertising strategies to support client campaigns; able to place and track ads across social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Google AdWords for video)
• Improving the search ranking, and extending the reach, of client content in a meaningful way
• Participating in forecasting and managing budgets for a specific set of client accounts; keeping the team and managers abreast of changes and suggesting solutions to any issues
• Helping clients allocate and manage social media budget
• Developing and implementing social media plans across all online channels
• Research and analytics: tracking content performance and making timely suggestions on how to optimize
• Leveraging metrics and research where appropriate to define and track performance against client objectives
• Presenting recommendations for changes in strategy
• Writing: social media posts, internal/external emails and other communications
• Overseeing community management: developing & tracking editorial calendars for Brand Channels
• Leading the strategic direction of visual brand content based on client objectives (including video and short format content)
• Ongoing tracking of industry & brand best practices
• Building strategic client documents to meet quarterly campaign objectives
• Leading brainstorming sessions
• Coaching, developing and mentoring junior team members

Our ideal candidate will also possess the following:

• 7+ years of experience in a social media agency or SEM environment
• Genuine curiosity about how technology and innovation affects how we communicate and evolves social behaviors
• Bachelor’s & post-graduate degree in Communications, Advertising, Media Studies or a related field
• Passionately committed to collaboration
• Excellent cross-functional leadership, presentation and communication skills; dynamic team player
• Shows strong initiative as an entrepreneurial thinker taking independent actions and calculated risks
• Superior time management and organizational abilities
• Strong proficiency in social platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, WhatsApp and Snapchat, etc…), effective measurement frameworks for social programs
• Experience in running social advertising campaigns
• Experience leading complex and highly strategic digital engagements
• Strong interpersonal abilities to effectively manage all internal and external relationships, vendors and agency partners
• Ability to be flexible in a changing work environment and work well under pressure
• Skilled at analyzing data, deriving insights and building creative output to meet client objectives
• Refined understanding of community management
• Proficiency in Photoshop is an asset
• Influencer relations is an asset