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🕒 May 28

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Vocal Media

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

📱 Media

🌍 Social Impact

Media • Social Impact

<Vocal Media> Vocal Media is a mission-driven media company that helps social change movements integrate with contemporary internet culture. It connects digital influencers and content creators with organizations, campaigns, and businesses to build high-impact social media movements and advocacy campaigns focused on equity, justice, and public interest issues. The company emphasizes measurable reach and engagement, highlighting influencer collaborations and large organic impressions.

📋 Description

• Conduct open-ended qualitative research across social media platforms, forums, and online communities to identify emerging narratives, trends, and audience attitudes relevant to specific issue areas • Track discourse across platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, and niche online spaces, developing a real-time read on how conversations are forming and shifting • Identify and analyze influential voices, content formats, and messaging patterns driving engagement on key topics • Synthesize qualitative findings into clear, compelling deliverables such as memos, briefs, and presentations that translate online discourse into actionable insights for non-technical audiences • Blend qualitative observations with quantitative signals to develop a well-rounded picture of how issues are resonating online

🎯 Requirements

• 1-2 years of professional experience working in a digital media environment or as a researcher • Deep familiarity with social media platforms and online communities, you spend time in these spaces and understand how content spreads, how subcultures communicate, and how algorithms shape what gets seen • Strong research instincts, the ability to identify the right places to look, ask the right questions, and know when you've found something meaningful • Exceptional written communication skills, with experience translating complex or nuanced findings into clear narratives for non-technical audiences • Comfort working alongside quantitative analysts and interpreting data to complement qualitative observations • Interest in working for progressive causes including experience with political campaign(s) or public interest groups

🏖️ Benefits

• This position includes full-time employment through November 2026 • Health insurance covered at 90% for full time employees; Dental and Vision available • Flexible PTO and sick leave • 401(k) plan & company contribution