What you'll do:

NinjaTrader's Social Media team builds our brand's voice and community across everychannel. As Social Media Manager, NT Tech, you'll own and grow NinjaTrader Tech's socialpresence, with a focus on our Prop business, one of our fastest-growing segments, whichgives funded traders the capital and tools they need to scale. This is a senior individualcontributor role: you'll own strategy and deliver measurable results, working day-to-day withthe Social Media team and reporting to the Sr. Manager, Content Marketing.

In this role you will:

• Own the strategy for NinjaTrader Prop and Ecosystem business accounts across X/Twitter,Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook, ideating, creating, and publishingcontent
• Manage the Prop social content roadmap and calendar from concept to publishing
• Develop and maintain a strong, social-first, company-approved brand voice and visualidentity that stays consistent across all channels, adapting content natively for eachplatform
• Monitor platform algorithm changes, trending formats, and emerging channels tomaximize reach and engagement
• Design your own social assets, work with the creative team and other designers to requestadditional assets and ensure cohesive visual identity across platforms, and overseecopywriting, caption development, and asset coordination for campaigns and productlaunches
• Manage relationships with influencers, creators, and agency partners on post schedulingand asset sharing across our channels
• Support our Video Producer on Prop business projects by repurposing long-form videointo short-form clips for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts, and writing captions, subtitles,and on-screen text
• Own community management across all NinjaTrader brand accounts by settingcommunity guidelines, response standards, and escalation paths, directing day-to-dayresponses to comments, DMs, mentions, and tags, cultivating an engaged and loyaltrading community, and monitoring brand mentions and sentiment to flag emergingissues
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with content, product, and growth teams, drivingalignment without formal authority, and represent the social media function incross-functional forums while advising other business units and building relationshipswith Manager- and Director-level stakeholders
• Track and analyze performance across channels, turning insights into data-drivenrecommendations and business cases that shape content strategy and influenceresourcing and budget decisions, and design and document the processes that ensure allpublished content meets regulatory and brand standards

What you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, journalism, or a related field (orequivalent hands-on experience) and 6+ years of related experience (or 4+ years with amaster's degree) in social media, content creation, or digital marketing (agency orin-house)
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a major social or content program, includingsetting strategy, managing the roadmap, and delivering measurable results, with a proventrack record growing social for a financial brand, media company, or creator
• Deep knowledge of the futures, prop trading, or crypto space, including its audiences,communities, and culture
• Proven experience building and leading community management programs, includingowning a brand's community strategy and representing a voice publicly
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving content environment, with a deep understanding ofshort-form video and X content ecosystems
• Strong graphic design skills, with experience turning a brief into scroll-stopping visualsboth independently and in collaboration with other designers, and comfort with videoediting software (Adobe Premiere or similar)
• Experience with Sprout Social, Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, and project managementtools (e.g., Jira, ClickUp, or Monday.com), plus experience using AI tools in your marketingworkflow (Claude and ChatGPT preferred) for ideation, copywriting, research, or assetcreation
• Experience adapting long-form content into short-form, social-first formats by finding thehook and cutting to what matters, and a fluency in meme culture and internet humor thatyou use strategically without forcing it
• Strong writing skills with sharp hooks and concise, engaging captions, a knack foradapting tone across platforms and audiences, and the ability to communicaterecommendations clearly in writing and in meetings
• Highly organized, with experience managing vendors, agencies, or contractors alongsidemultiple content streams and cross-functional workstreams, and a proven ability to alignstakeholders (content, product, growth) without formal authority, including at theManager and Director level

Bonus Points for:

• Comfort on camera for short-form video content (TikTok, Reels), a strong differentiator
• Basic familiarity with paid social, including knowing how organic and paid work together
• Familiarity with Social SEO, including optimizing captions, hashtags, and scripts toimprove discoverability on TikTok, YouTube, and beyond

Compensation:

The salary range for this role will be $85,000 - $100,000 USD. In addition, this position will alsoreceive an annual target bonus of [BONUS %]%. Bonus pay at NinjaTrader is based onindividual performance (50%) as well as company/team performance (50%).Salary and bonus earnings are only two components of the total compensation packageoffered by NinjaTrader.

NinjaTrader offers a 401(k) plan through ADP under which thecompany will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions. Annual paid time off allowanceaccrues at a rate of 18 days per year plus seven paid holidays.

Location:

This role is based in Chicago, IL. We are not open to remote candidates for this role

Hybrid:

For Chicago-based employees, we follow a hybrid work schedule: In-office Tuesday throughThursday, with remote work on Mondays and Fridays. In addition to these weekly remotedays, we offer:

• 20 additional flex remote days annually
• 6 Company Wide Office-Optional weeks tied to major holidays