Entry Level Content Strategist

Entry Level Content Strategist
Join the FurnitureDealer.Net Publishing Team as an Entry Level Business Associate and Content Strategist.

- Do you love business?
- Do you love solving problems?
- Do you love internet strategy and consumer experience?

- Are you a person whose actions speak louder than your words, and want a chance to prove yourself?
- Do you love serving and WOWing others?
- Would you rather join a great company, or work your tail off to help build one?
- Are you innovative and entrepreneurial?

If you answered yes to these questions, and if you know that you can wow our team and our customers, then please read on.

Who We're Looking For
This is an Entry Level position, but we're looking for someone who wants to join us long term. If you're just looking for a "job" or some "Entry Level experience," please do NOT apply. We are looking for highly motivated self starters who want to join a team, who are committed to personal excellence - who don't just want to be good, they want to be great. Nearly all job seekers claim that they want to be successful, but very few are actually willing to put in the time, energy and sacrifice necessary to become the best version of themselves, or to help their team and their clients be truly great. We want to work with people who want to work and who enjoy working. We are looking for people who don't need a lot of direction and can work well in an unstructured environment, who know how to ask questions, figure out what needs to be done, and know how to get it done. We are looking for people who love learning, strategic thinking, setting big goals, executing and being accountable. We strongly value curiosity, accountability, and humility. We think work should be fun. Our clients run businesses, and they hire us to help them do business better. To succeed in this role, you must think business is fun.

Our company is driven more by values than we are by money. "We love making money by helping our partners make money." That is our company motto, and it highlights how we think long term and how important win-win partnerships are to us. We believe that if we partner with the right kind of people (teammates and clients), and work hard to help them be successful, they will help us be successful too. We believe that career happiness and personal excellence are achieved by focusing on others rather than on yourself, and from working really hard, obsessing over details, doing great work, and being someone who others "love" working with.

About Us
FurnitureDealer.Net is an entrepreneurial internet technology, online marketing, content publishing and management company located in Burnsville Minnesota. We are the internet business partner for more than 100 leading full-service brick and mortar furniture retailers. We build, manage and host our clients' websites, publish their online digital product catalogs, and strategize with them to attract and serve consumers both online and in-store. We are a hard working team of tech-savvy, business-oriented problem solvers, constantly striving for innovation and efficiency.

Why We Love What We Do
The internet is all about moving information, and we want to provide great information to people using our websites to shop for home furnishings. Our company publishes and manages the product catalogs for several hundred furniture, mattress, appliance, and electronics brands. This involves researching, communicating, objectively presenting and maintaining a wide range of helpful information about these products for our more than four million e-commerce visitors per month. You will be publishing on behalf of consumers who are shopping for these products, and you will need to learn to identify and use keywords in your writing for search engine optimization (SEO). You will need to develop relationships with suppliers so you can understand and tell their ongoing brand and product stories.

Become a Content Strategist with FurnitureDealer.Net
Our team is responsible for growing and maintaining the best online product catalog content library in the industry. We pride ourselves on continuously learning and becoming expert about home furnishings, and over time, we expect that you will develop a similar passion for all things furniture. As a Content Strategist, we expect you to want to identify opportunities to improve the online shopping experience, strategize with our team to determine the best course of action, and execute improvements.

You must be an excellent communicator (which includes listening and asking questions as well as verbal, written and visual communication). A major part of our job is writing product content, but it also involves using our platform to present product to consumers strategically and effectively. From communicating with manufacturers and manipulating data spreadsheets, to writing inspirational lifestyle content and building site navigation, there will always be something to geek out over and champion. Additionally, it will be vital that you are able to work with our team to reshape this role as the industry changes, and we continue to innovate. You should get excited about the opportunity to problem solve and bring fresh ideas to our company.

Content Strategist Role:
- Create product information for retailer websites, including analyzing product data, classifying products, writing keyword-enriched product content, and editing images
- Become an expert in a furniture product category to assist shoppers- Build relationships with manufacturers to obtain and manage data for our product catalog
- Work with team to improve consumer shopping experience
- Strategize ideas for new tools and improved internal publishing processes
- Support our clients by answering questions, problem solving, and addressing website requests

What to Expect
We are a company that believes financial rewards and compensation should go to individuals who work hard and earn them. We focus on long term (not short term) success and payout in our relationships. We want to hire a few individuals who are looking to invest along with us in their career and in our business.

Tryout Period:
- Actions speak louder than words. Every new hire is given a 16-week tryout, during which you will be given the opportunity to learn about our business and culture, to work alongside us on important projects, to earn our trust, (and for us to earn your trust).

- You will receive training that extensively covers general industry knowledge, the tools we use to manage our catalog, and the daily operations on our team. The people who have been most successful in our company invest their time and energy in not only doing great work, but also in learning as much as they can about our business. The individuals who have been the most successful have recognized business opportunities and needs, and gotten themselves into roles that match their individual strengths and passions.

- Compensation: Your starting total compensation will be $40,200 per year, which includes a starting salary of $35,000 per year.

- Benefits Pay: In addition, (starting on your first day) you will be paid $5,200 per year in benefits compensation to use towards our company's truly unique "benefits." At the start of your first full month, you will become eligible apply your benefits compensation to purchase any of our optional cafeteria plan options such as group health, dental, vision insurance, and HSA. If you don't want or need our cafeteria plan benefits, you can receive your benefits money for a variety of "after tax" choices such as student loan repayment, save for car, save for house, save for vacation, or save for just about anything that is important to you.

- Vacation & Time Off: New employees can use up to seven paid days off in their first year plus five paid holidays (Memorial day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day). An additional five paid days off (total of 12 plus 5 paid holidays) starting on second year of service.

- Other Work Perks: There are a variety of other work benefits and perks including a flexible work schedule, company provided lunches, coffee bar, weekly happy hours, fitness room, laundry room, family leave, company paid financial advising services, company paid tax prep and planning service, and more.

- "LOVE YOUR WORK" is our goal, and is how we measure ourselves. If during the tryout, we find that you love working with us and we love working with you, then we will offer you a full time position and increase your annual compensation by at least $2,000 to $42,200 per year ($37,000 plus the $5,200 in benefits). You will become eligible for our IRA retirement savings plan with 3% company matching, and will be offered a free new smart phone on our company plan.

You will become eligible for our IRA retirement savings plan with 3% company matching, and will be offered a free new smart phone on our company plan.

Our business is good, and we’re poised for significant growth in front of us. Being a big part of our team is as important as doing great work for us. After Covid hit in 2020, our team worked 100% virtual and has dabbled with hybrid work, but we learned that remote work really hurt our culture, our collaboration, and our team, so we are now only recruiting people who are excited to be a part of an innovative and collaborative in-office work environment. We have hired and replaced quite a few employees this past year who have been working hard to help us re-build, re-invigorate and re-invent our team and our business.

This is an in-office, (NOT a virtual or hybrid) role. All of our new employees are expected to work full time from our office in Burnsville, Minnesota. Please do not apply unless you are already living in the local Twin Cities area, or plan on moving here without financial assistance.

Work should be fun. If this sounds fun to you, and if you think you would be successful in this environment, then we would love to hear from you. Please submit your resume, a cover letter, and your top five strengths.

This Job Is Ideal for Someone Who Is:
- Dependable -- more reliable than spontaneous
- People-oriented -- enjoys interacting with people and working on group projects
- Adaptable/flexible -- enjoys doing work that requires frequent shifts in direction
- Detail-oriented -- would rather focus on the details of work than the bigger picture
- Achievement-oriented -- enjoys taking on challenges, even if they might fail
- Autonomous/Independent -- enjoys working with little direction
- Innovative -- prefers working in unconventional ways or on tasks that require creativity
- High stress tolerance -- thrives in a high-pressure environment

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $40,200.00 - $43,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Application Question(s):

• This is an in-person (NOT virtual) job. Our office is located in Burnsville Minnesota. We are re-building our great team culture. Please confirm that you currently live in the Twin Cities area, and that you are willing and excited to work in our office with us.

Ability to Relocate:

• Burnsville, MN 55337: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person