Progress Pop seeks Content Director for Social Change - $60k to $70k

Position: Content Director for Social Change (Full Time, Remote)

Organization: ProgressPop

Reports to: David Ellmann, Founder and Director 

Direct Reports: N/A

Location: Full-time, 100% remote position (from home or co-working space) with occasional travel once every 2-3 months

ProgressPop is a new digital media nonprofit dedicated to building people power for progressive change. We launched in 2019 and learned that we can create fun, engaging content across a variety of content verticals ranging from animals, to astrology, to pop culture, to celebrities that people love. That was exciting, but our key learning was that we could successfully inspire subscribers who we attracted with apolitical content to take highly impactful civic actions that advance progressive policies. So imagine if Buzzfeed, or The Dodo, or PopSugar had an explicit progressive social justice mission built into their DNA. That’s what we’re building. 

We ran our 2019 tests and developed a highly scalable growth engine with some seed funding, and because of our success in 2019, we’ve raised a large follow up investment. That investment will allow us to scale our growth engine so we can grow to 2 million subscribers across Facebook Messenger, Instagram and Podcasts by the end of 2020.  

Building people power is why we exist, but to give our subscribers the power to strike fear into politicians, we need to be built to last for decades. For that reason, everything we’re building in 2020 has to drive impact, but also has to set us on a path to financial self sustainability. We don’t want to be reliant on large foundations to pay our bills, or be beholden to other outside interests who could try to mold our mission to fit their goals. We want to test multiple revenue streams so we can be sustainable, and so we can put the needs and wants of our subscribers at the forefront. 

ProgressPop was born out of the Accelerate Change incubator, which has helped launch other rapidly scaling digital media properties like PushBlack, ParentsTogether, Pulso, and Revolution English. To create a rapidly scalable, highly impactful, financially self-sustaining media organization, we are driven by the Functional Organizing model and by Lean Startup methodologies. 

ProgressPop is seeking a data-driven Content Director to lead content creation and experimentation primarily on Facebook Messenger, Facebook Ads, Instagram, and Podcasts. As Content Director, you’ll use Lean Startup methodology to test and implement content strategies to help ProgressPop achieve scalable, transformative growth. The role would be an ideal fit for a seasoned content creator who has experience building a digital media brand from the ground up.