{"id":3815724,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ello-marketing-associate-contract","title":"Marketing Associate (Contract)","company":{"id":15637,"name":"Ello","domain":"ello.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ello-com","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Marketing","role_family":"Marketing","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":40,"max":50,"currency":"USD","period":"hour","gross":null,"usd_annual":100000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Instagram","optional":false},{"name":"LinkedIn","optional":false},{"name":"YouTube","optional":false},{"name":"Figma","optional":true},{"name":"Notion","optional":true},{"name":"Slack","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-05T13:06:18Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-05","last_verified_at":"2026-11-14T01:11:31Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":8,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":8},"description":"About the Role\nWe're hiring our first Marketing Associate: a bold, creative, outside-the-box thinker who's sharpened their instincts at consumer brands people love to talk about. You know what makes a hook land, a stunt spread and a comment section light up, and you're excited to bring that energy somewhere new.\nEllo is an AI reading and math teacher for kids, and we believe learning deserves marketing that's as fun as it is meaningful. We want our work to be funny, surprising and genuinely shareable while earning trust with families and empowering the parent. You'll help us make that happen.\nYou'll be the connective tissue across our organic and paid creative pipelines and Ello's day-to-day point of contact for our roster of creators (UGC, organic and paid), keeping the production line moving: sourcing, briefing, script approvals, scheduling and follow-through. Beyond creator ops, you'll plug in wherever the team needs you as we scale toward launch: pulling reporting, uploading content, setting up ad campaigns, supporting events, and making sensible day-to-day calls so senior folks aren't drowning in coordination work.\nThis is an entry-level seat with an unusual amount of surface area. The right person is hungry, organized enough to own the coordination work, and creative enough to be more than an executor. You'll partner closely with our Creative Strategy Lead (Sanna Nour), Growth Marketing Lead (Cole Nielsen), and the broader marketing team.\nWe're looking for someone who is immediately available for a full-time, 6-month contract and can work in-person in our SF office in the Mission 3 days/week.\nResponsibilities\nCreator pipeline coordination and content ideation (core, ~65%)\nOwn day-to-day management of our creative contractor pipelines for organic and paid: sourcing creators, pitching them on Ello, negotiating rates within set budgets, and onboarding them to our process.\n\nBe the primary point of contact for creators: brief them, review and confirm scripts against our guidelines, route feedback from internal stakeholders, and keep production timelines on track.\n\nMaintain a clean, up-to-date roster of active creators, scripts in flight and content delivered, so the team always knows what's shipping when.\n\nGenerate organic content ideas grounded in our brand direction and what's resonating culturally. Bring fresh concepts weekly.\n\nPitch and help bring to life marketing stunts and IRL moments, from scrappy street activations to bigger cultural plays, that give us something worth posting about.\n\nSpot trends, sounds and formats early, and move fast to get Ello in on them in a way that feels native, not forced.\n\nStay close to comments, DMs, and community feedback, and surface insights that should shape what we make next.\n\nGrowth generalist support (~35%)\nPull weekly and ad-hoc reporting across organic and paid channels. Flag what's working, what's not, and what's worth digging into.\n\nUpload and schedule content across our organic channels (TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube). Set up and traffic ad creative under our Growth Marketing Lead's direction.\n\nMake the small day-to-day calls that keep marketing moving: which thumbnail, which caption variant, when to repost, who to loop in.\n\nPartner with the team on quarterly organic social planning, bringing a data-driven, in-the-weeds perspective on what's actually performing.\n\nHelp shape testing roadmaps for new formats (animation, UGC, longer-form and more).\n\nBuild a point of view on our organic channels over time and contribute to the team's strategic thinking, not just execution.\n\nSupport stunts and events end to end: concepting, logistics, permits and vendors, RSVPs, partner coordination and on-the-ground help, plus capturing content on the day so every activation turns into organic posts.\n\nTrack what each stunt or activation drove (reach, engagement, sign-ups) and share learnings so the next one lands better.\n\nRequired Experience\n2-4 years of relevant marketing experience: internships, contractor work, agency time, or running social for a brand (or yourself, if it's strong).\n\nDemonstrated taste for organic social. You live on TikTok and Instagram, can explain why a hook works, and your reference points come from consumer culture, not our category. You can spot a trend early and act on it fast, before the moment passes.\n\nStrong people skills and follow-through. You can hold a creator's hand through a brief, chase down a missing deliverable without being annoying, and make people want to work with you.\n\nResourceful and scrappy. You'd rather figure it out and move than wait for instructions.\n\nAlready using AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) daily for research, briefs, copy drafts, summarizing comments, whatever speeds you up. You treat AI as a force multiplier, not a novelty.\n\nComfortable being in our SF office 3 days a week and working alongside a small, fast-moving team. Energy and hustle matter here.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience at a consumer brand with a distinct voice (DTC, food and bev, beauty, apps, entertainment). You know how a brand earns attention in a feed, not just how it describes itself.\n\nA mischievous streak. You're not afraid of well-done clickbait, and you know the difference between a bold idea that earns a parent's trust and a cheap one that spends it.\n\nHands-on experience running creator or UGC pipelines at an agency, brand, or as a contractor.\n\nExperience writing short-form copy or scripts. You can draft a hook, caption or brief without much hand-holding.\n\nA creator portfolio of your own, even a small one, that shows you understand the platform from the inside.\n\nExperience planning or executing guerrilla marketing, pop-ups or stunts, especially ones that went viral or earned press.\n\nFamiliarity with Notion, Slack, and Figma, or you're a quick study.\n\nWe Look for Candidates Who\nHave a bias toward action and would rather ship something imperfect than wait for perfect.\n\nAre curious and want to learn fast across multiple marketing disciplines.\n\nTake full ownership of their work and follow through without being chased.\n\nPrefer direct, honest communication grounded in empathy.\n\nWant to bring outside-the-category thinking to something that matters: kids learning to read and do math.\n\nBring real hustle to a startup environment and want to be part of a tight, in-office team.\n\nAt Ello, diversity is a moral imperative and a competitive advantage. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, skin color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to assess skills and experience directly. 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