With social media trans­form­ing the world of mar­ket­ing and shift­ing the dig­i­tal space into a new, rev­o­lu­tion­ary phase, there have been many social media jobs avail­able in New York. Along with that, doors have opened for busi­ness­es want­i­ng to estab­lish a sta­ble online pres­ence and boost aware­ness of their busi­ness. The pipeline of poten­tial cus­tomers is today filled from the ‘online’ point of view, even more than any oth­er aspect. Did you know that employ­ers in the Big Apple are look­ing to fill more than 150 jobs in social media?

Even 65% per­cent of com­pa­ny heads at major New York com­pa­nies, such as Time Warn­er Cable, Amer­i­can Express, Ver­i­zon, and Phillip Mor­ris Inter­na­tion­al, say inte­grat­ed mar­ket­ing is val­ued more than ever. Accord­ing to Buzz Feed, mil­len­ni­als will make up 46 per­cent of the job force by 2020.

Savvy job seek­ers with their dri­ve for achiev­ing results can def­i­nite­ly tune in the social media era, as we today share the 5 high­est pay­ing social media jobs in New York currently.

1. Social media strategist

A social media strate­gist is an indi­vid­ual who paves the way for the rest of the cam­paign by research­ing for the best net­works, eval­u­at­ing con­tent strate­gies and allo­cat­ing the resources need­ed for a suc­cess­ful strat­e­gy to be done. This posi­tion requires a sta­ble knowl­edge of the whole aspect of social media as well as skills as man­age­ment and com­mu­ni­ca­tion along with that.

2. Copy­writer

Con­tent writ­ing is real­ly impor­tant nowa­days. There­fore, a social media cam­paign has to have robust con­tent with con­tin­u­ous updates. What­ev­er the chan­nel may be, Twit­ter, Face­book or maybe LinkedIn — blog posts, arti­cles and web­site copy are def­i­nite­ly in demand. Tal­ent­ed writ­ers can see through this amaz­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty and get to write for a range of medi­ums and purposes.

3. PR man­ag­er

Social media jobs in New York also require the PR aspect — or in oth­er words, peo­ple who gen­er­ate inter­est in busi­ness­es from the pub­lic side of view. Blog­ger out­reach schemes, tar­get­ing spe­cial news out­lets or orga­niz­ing events — what­ev­er the form is, cre­at­ing a buzz around a brand is def­i­nite­ly impor­tant today.

4. Free­lancer

Social media jobs don’t always require hav­ing a spe­cif­ic role in an orga­ni­za­tion. With being a free­lancer, you can work for var­i­ous aspects of social media and as many busi­ness­es as you want. In order to suc­ceed in free­lanc­ing, a sta­ble port­fo­lio is needed.

5. Online Com­mu­ni­ty Manager

The sen­ti­ment of con­ver­sa­tions tak­ing place about a brand is yet anoth­er new aspect of the trend­ing social media jobs in New York nowa­days. Being data focused and with a strong aspect of emo­tion­al intel­li­gence when deal­ing with neg­a­tive com­ments, the role of a com­mu­ni­ty man­ag­er is to bring the brand in the most pos­i­tive light pos­si­ble. That is why it’s the per­fect role for peo­ple with good tech­ni­cal skills and knowl­edge of the Internet.