Betterment

Social Media & Content Associate

Betterment$89K — $99K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-3 years of experience in social media, digital marketing, or content creation; experience in financial services is a plus.
  • Established ability to manage daily publishing on corporate social channels.
  • Experience with short-form social video creation and platform best practices.
  • Excellent writing and visual communication skills to maintain a consistent brand voice.
  • Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple platforms and priorities.
  • Familiarity with analytics and scheduling tools like Hootsuite and Meta.
  • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, or similar design tools.

Responsibilities

  • Drive daily workflow for creating social media posts and managing approvals.
  • Schedule and publish content while ensuring compliance and accessibility.
  • Monitor engagement and respond to audience questions, flagging trends or issues.
  • Collect weekly and monthly performance metrics for reporting and optimization.
  • Support product launches and marketing initiatives by creating engaging content formats.
  • Contribute ideas for timely content reflecting market events and brand moments.
  • Stay updated on social trends to identify engagement opportunities.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage including life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Equity for all employees with new hire and refresher grants.
  • Flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, and a fully paid sabbatical after six years.
  • Company-paid professional coaching for employee growth.
  • 401(k) matching from day one, plus matching on qualified student loan payments.
Full Job Description
Betterment is hiring a Social Media & Content Associate to support the execution of our organic social strategy across three lines of businesses (Betterment, Betterment at Work, and Betterment Advisors Solutions) and help scale how we show up across platforms. This role sits on the Brand Creative team, reporting into the Social Media Manager. We play a key role in shaping the Betterment brand and product story, translating complex financial topics into clear, engaging content that builds trust and long-term brand equity. As a Social Media Associate, you will play a key role in bringing our content calendar to life. You'll focus on drafting, creating and publishing content, routing posts through compliance and approval workflows, maintaining documentation, and monitoring performance. This role is ideal for someone with hands-on experience using design and editing tools, who is creative and able to help make complex financial topics and product launches engaging. This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment's total compensation package for employees. - New York City: $89,000 - $99,500 This job may also be eligible for variable compensation in the form of a company incentive bonus. A Day in the Life - We make content about money and have a lot of fun doing it. You'll help us tell the stories behind our products, our people, and why financial confidence should be accessible to everyone. - Drive day-to-day workflow for the creation of posts, including drafting copy, coordinating or creating creative assets, editing, shooting, routing content for reviews and approvals, and maintaining accurate compliance documentation. - Schedule and publish content using social management tools, ensuring tagging, accessibility standards, and compliance requirements are met. - Monitor engagement and comments across channels, flagging audience questions, trends, or potential risks by responding directly or routing to the appropriate team. - Pull weekly and monthly performance metrics to contribute to reporting and optimization efforts. - Partnering with Marketing, Creative, and Comms, assist in packaging product launches, research, and marketing initiatives into social-ready formats including product explainers and social first stories. - Contribute ideas during brainstorms and support timely content tied to market events, and key brand moments. - Stay up-to-date on social trends to identify opportunities and know when to be bold (but also when to be...demure). What We're Looking For - 2-3 years of experience in social media, digital marketing, or content creation; experience in financial services or other regulated industries is a plus. - Established ability to manage day-to-day publishing across corporate social channels. - Experience with social video, including short-form video creation and platform-native best practices. - Excellent writing and visual communication skills, with demonstrated ability to capture and apply a consistent brand voice. - Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to manage multiple platforms and priorities. - Familiarity with any analytics and scheduling tools (e.g., Hootsuite, Meta, and other native platform insights). - Experience using Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Captcut, Edits or similar design tools, with a comfort leveraging AI capabilities to ideate and execute content faster.. - Strong working knowledge of social best practices, including formatting, tagging, accessibility, and engagement norms. - Collaborative mindset and comfort working cross-functionally with different teams across the organization. Our Commitment to Your Total Well-being: - We offer a competitive suite of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and AD&D insurance; short- and long-term disability; infertility support and WPATH-aligned transgender health benefits; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); transit benefits and FSA and HSA options - Ownership: Equity for all employees, including new hire and refresher grants. - Time: Flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, and a fully paid four-week sabbatical in your sixth year. - Growth: Company-paid professional coaching for all employees. - Wealth: Day-one 401(k) match plus matching on qualified student loan payments. What happens next We'll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we'd like to spend more time with you, we'll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues. In the interview process, we'll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions. On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we're unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process. We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process! Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter. Please note that in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Come join us!

About Betterment

Betterment is a financial services company that provides automated investment management and financial planning services. The company's platform uses algorithms to create and manage investment portfolios for its clients, with a focus on low fees and tax efficiency. Betterment was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York City. The company has grown rapidly in recent years, and now manages over $22 billion in assets for more than 500,000 customers.
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