Careers

Why Social Nature?

Join a company on a mission to inspire people to #trynatural. Did you know that each year, the average person uses about 200 products? That's 200 choices you're making about what you put in your body, in your children's bodies, and in the environment. With Social Nature, people can try natural products for free in exchange for writing a review on social media. We hope to inspire millions of people to #trynatural through our member's social reviews.

Our Roots

Our Founder is an experienced and passionate entrepreneur, formerly CEO of ethicalDeal, North America’s largest green daily deal website (acquired in 2015). Read more about our story.

Our Culture

At Social Nature, we've got a low-key but high-performance culture, with strong accountability paired with total transparency about our business performance. We value open, honest and proactive communication and are very customer centric. Everybody acts like an owner in the business and is focused on achieving goals rather than just putting in the hours. We also believe that you can profit with purpose. Meet our team.

Don't see a position listed, but interested in what we're doing? We're always interested in hearing from great talent. Say hello at careers@socialnature.com.

Current Openings

Marketing Internship, Vancouver (Gastown)
Description

Marketing | Operations | E-commerce

Summer Internship *possible full-time this Fall

30-hours/week

Vancouver (Gastown)

$15/hour

Do you want to support our mission to inspire millions of people to #trynatural products? This is a great opportunity to start your career and get exposure to lots of different areas of fast-paced online marketplace start-up. For the right candidate, there may be an opportunity to turn this internship into a permanent salaried position this Fall.

About Us

Social Nature is a better-for-you marketplace that harnesses the power of consumer influence to drive results for brands.

At Social Nature our core beliefs are:

+ Promote good stuff not junk

+ Everyday consumers have influence

+ Profit with purpose

Hundreds of progressive brands have tapped into our community of 350K+ Everyday Influencers to get people trying and talking about their products. To-date, we've influenced over 2 million people to #trynatural products. It’s an exciting time to join this rocket ship!

What You’ll Be Doing

We're looking for someone to support our growing marketplace of better-for-you products. If you have an interest in marketing, operations, e-commerce - this job is for you. By the end of this year, we hope to have hundreds if not thousands of products on our website for people to discover, review and share with their friends. This means you’ll be researching leads for our sales/marketing team to pursue, creating product listings (sourcing product images/writing product copy) that showcase our vendors and their inspiring stories, answering email inquiries from our community, liaising with our fulfillment warehouses to ensure our community gets their products on time, testing new product features and much more! This internship is a serious learning experience on the ins-and-outs of a growing marketplace. You should be a quick learner, highly adaptable, detail oriented, tech-savvy, a strong communicator, organized, and love going out of your way for others. This is an opportunity to grow with us!

Responsibilities

  • Support our marketplace operations. Source up and coming leads for our marketplace team. Create a brand profile and product pages for each new marketplace vendor. Add community-generated content to our vendor dashboards. Manage logistics with our warehouses across Canada and USA.
  • Support our community operations. Provide our 350K community of everyday influencers with timely support via email and social media. Share ideas to improve the community or vendor experience based on trends you see in the support tickets. Provide input and testing (QA) support on new product features.
  • Keep us organized. Take care of administrative and office duties and other tasks as assigned.
  • Quickly learn the ins and outs of Social Nature. There isn’t one thing about Social Nature you don’t know about. Knowledge is power.
Requirements

Qualifications

  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • A passion for getting things done and taking action
  • Always looking for ways to optimize and improve processes
  • Adaptable to changing needs and requirements
  • Tech-savvy i.e. you can quickly learn tools like Slack, Gmail, Zendesk, Mailchimp

Learn more about our team culture and our founder, who was named Canada’s likeliest future entrepreneur queen!

Compensation

What’s Next

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, please apply directly on our website or send your resume and cover letter to careers@socialnature.com with the subject line: Marketing Internship. Please note that due to the high volume of applications received only short-listed candidates will be contacted.


Software Engineer: Vancouver, BC
Description

Do you want to make a positive impact by building software that powers a company on a mission to inspire people to #trynatural products?

About Us

Social Nature, is a consumer-powered marketing company, on a mission to inspire people to #trynatural. We believe that marketing should be based on companies making great products and that everyday consumers are your best marketers. Brands tap into our community of 350K+ Everyday Influencers to generate targeted trial, consumer insights, user content, and social media amplification for their products.

At Social Nature, you’ll have the opportunity to work with the most progressive brands in the world, and for a company that’s disrupting the way brands market their products to consumers. Join our award winning team, and promote good stuff, not junk.

What You’ll Be Doing

A Software Engineer is a development guru who is equally comfortable shipping reliable applications as they are digging into tough problems in a Linux shell and getting their hands into sprawling C# code.

This position is critical to the growth of the company. Not only will you see your work having a direct impact on the bottom line, but you will also be a key player in the continued rocket trajectory of a successful, profitable company that is both leading the industry and doing good in the world.

Reporting to the Director of Technology and collaborating with product managers, marketers and fellow developers, your day-to-day will include:

  • The creation of user-facing websites using the latest and best available cross-platform .NET tools

  • Owning the overall reliability and performance of our customer-facing web application and back-office suite

  • Keeping up to date with the latest trends and best practices, introducing them to your workflow

  • Leading the requirements gathering and workflow decision-making process for the team

  • Writing testable code using TDD methods; mentoring others to do the same

  • A/B testing shipped features to establish data baselines and measure performance

Requirements

Qualifications

  • Love what you do, have opinions, and get excited about software

  • Have programming experience with MVC web applications

  • Knowledge of Angular/React.js, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript

  • Understanding of continuous integration/continuous delivery, configuration automation and build systems

  • Have used a source control system (e.g. Git) in a team environment

  • Commitment to agile software development methodologies including TDD, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

  • Have shipped customer-facing websites or mobile apps

  • Experience shipping high-quality code in a fast-paced agile environment

  • Knowledge of command-line Linux administration (we make full use AWS and love our Cloud infrastructure)

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

What we look for

  • You are a strategic and analytical thinker. You are able to contribute your own ideas and think creatively about how to get the best outcome for the company and the customer.

  • You are solutions focused. You embrace challenges and dig deep to come up with creative solutions that get us back on track.

  • You care a lot. You take full ownership over your role and the outcomes. As a result, you pay close attention to detail, never make the same mistake twice, and take initiative to continuously improve outcomes.

  • You're naturally curious and have a growth mindset. You have a high degree of self-motivation and initiative with a drive to learn and grow your role. You like to experiment with new and creative ideas.

  • You have strong organizational and time management skills. In a growing company, there will always be more things to do than you have time for. A+ team members are excellent at staying focused, prioritizing, and automating non-value-added work.

  • You have an entrepreneurial spirit. You are adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity and change. You’re comfortable taking on multiple roles, sometimes outside of your comfort zone.

  • You are an excellent relationship builder. You quickly earn trust and confidence with your team and our customers. You foster a productive and empowering work environment.

Compensation

Why You Should Work with Us

1. Join a forward-thinking company on a mission to inspire people to #trynatural products. Be part of the consumer-powered marketing revolution.

2. HUGE opportunity for career growth! We’re a 15 person funded start-up at a critical high-growth stage. Our staff are encouraged to think big and embrace an entrepreneurial mindset. You’ll learn more here than anywhere else, and have the opportunity to make a big impact.

3. Competitive salary, employee stock options, up to 4 weeks paid time off and comprehensive health/dental benefits. We also enjoy a flat hierarchy, bright Gastown office with a green living wall, professional development opportunities, quarterly team events, annual company retreat, and lots of natural snacks and fair trade coffee/tea to keep you fuelled!

4. Development environment freedom, we are fully cross-platform and embrace open-source. Choose your weapon - are you a PC or a Mac?

Learn more about our team culture, and our founder, who was named Canada’s likeliest future entrepreneur queen.

What’s Next

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, please apply directly on our website or send your resume and cover letter to careers@socialnature.com with the subject line: Software Engineer.

Director of Online Marketing: Vancouver, BC
Description

Are you a data-driven marketing leader keen on converting people to #trynatural products?


About Us

Social Nature, is a consumer-powered marketing company that inspires people to #trynatural products. Over 150 household brands across North America have tapped into our community of 300K+ Everyday Influencers to get people trying and talking about their products. To-date, we've influenced over 2 million people to #trynatural! 

At Social Nature our core beliefs are: 

+ Promote good stuff not junk

+ Everyday consumers have influence 

+ Profit with purpose 

What You’ll Be Doing

Social Nature, is looking for a full-time Director of Community Performance at our Vancouver, BC head office. Reporting to the CEO, the Director will lead a digital marketing team that grows and engages our community of Everyday Influencers. To do so - you’ll be exercising all of your digital marketing muscles - from acquisition to conversion to retention - through both organic and paid channels. 

As the driving force behind our community performance, you care about the outcomes and are constantly monitoring our influencer marketing campaigns to ensure they meet our customer’s goals, on time and on budget. You are adept at creating automated processes that will improve efficiencies and give your team time to innovate and collaborate. Our current digital marketing channels at Social Nature are: email marketing, facebook messenger, facebook ads, instagram ads, SEO and referral traffic. Your critical thinking, strategy and analytical skills are imperative to our growth.

What We’re Looking For

  • You’re a problem solver. You simplify problems and reveal new opportunities to overcome barriers and challenge previous definitions of success.

  • You’re results-driven. You combine analytics, insights and creativity to reveal opportunities, develop solutions and take action to continuously improve our business.

  • You’re a strategic and analytical thinker. You love finding opportunities for optimization and can quickly spot relevant patterns and issues to come up with an alternate paths to proceed. 

  • You’re systems oriented. You like to figure out how all of the pieces and resources can be arranged for maximum productivity. You embrace tools and systems to get what you need out of your role, and dig deep with your resources to come up with creative solutions that keep us on track. 

  • You’re a leader. You take full responsibility for outcomes and can influence others to achieve results. You’re a strong communicator and enjoy developing a team.

Requirements

Qualifications

  • 10 years' relevant digital marketing experience; B2C experience ideal

  • Strong experience across the entire user funnel: acquisition-conversion-retention 

  • You can be creative, disruptive and inspirational to get us thinking big, yet remain grounded in the real world, and are ready to roll up your sleeves to drive outcomes
  • Balanced approach to qualitative and quantitative analysis to drive decisions

  • Proficient in tracking, analyzing, leveraging, and presenting data from marketing efforts while putting into action opportunities for improvement

  • Strong experience with A/B testing, user funnel optimization, reporting, automation, segmentation, deliverability, re-targeting

  • Experience partnering with product, data analytics, and creative teams

  • Experience managing digital acquisition marketing specialists and external agency or partner relationships 

  • Relevant experience with consumer marketing, targeting messages for specific audiences and demonstrated ability to convert them

  • Experience in building and managing budgets

  • Experience in developing marketing programs to acquire new customers as well as engage existing customers

  • Experience in creating and optimizing social paid ads (Facebook, Instagram)

  • Experience in creating and A/B testing email campaigns, measure and track success of each campaign, while looking for areas of improvement for each campaign and the overall experience for our community 

Compensation

Top 3 Reasons to Work with Us

1. Join a digital marketing company with a purpose. Our mission is to inspire people to #trynatural. At Social Nature, you’ll work with the most progressive brands in the world, and be part of the consumer-powered marketing revolution.

2. Take your next step and grow your career with us. We’re at a critical high-growth stage, where our staff are encouraged to think big and embrace an entrepreneurial mindset. You’ll learn more here than anywhere else, and have the opportunity to make a big impact.

3. Competitive salary, employee stock options, 4 weeks paid time off, and comprehensive health/dental benefits. We also enjoy a flat hierarchy, bright Gastown office with a green living wall, professional development opportunities, quarterly team events, an annual company retreat, and lots of natural snacks and fair trade coffee/tea to keep you fuelled!

Learn more about our team culture and our founder, who was named Canada’s likeliest future entrepreneur queen!

What's Next 

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, please send your cover letter and resume to careers@socialnature.com with the subject line: Director of Online Marketing. Please note that due to the high volume of applications received only short-listed candidates will be contacted. 

User Acquisition & Conversion Marketing Manager: Vancouver, BC
Description

Are you a data driven marketer keen on converting people to #trynatural products?

About Us

Social Nature, is an influencer marketing company that harnesses the power of consumer influence to drive results for the world's most progressive brands. We believe that marketing should be based on companies making great products, and that everyday consumers are your best marketers. 

At Social Nature our core beliefs are: 

+ Promote good stuff not junk

+ Everyday consumers have influence 

+ Profit with purpose

Over 100 brands have tapped into our community of 300K+ Everyday Influencers to get people talking about their products. To-date, we've influenced over 1.5 million people to #trynatural products! Over the next 3 years, we’ll be onboarding more enterprise customers, growing our community into the millions, automating our campaign operations, and expanding our customer offerings. 

It’s an exciting time to join this rocketship!

Requirements

What You’ll Be Doing

This is a central role that requires your best analytical thinking. You are passionate about the top-end of the marketing funnel, specifically acquisition and conversion of users. Our campaigns require a focus on optimization, community segmentation, and strategy. Help us scale by improving our user funnel metrics, acquisition costs, and helping us automate our campaign operations.

You will be recruiting new members into our influencer community, and converting existing members, to successfully fill a campaign. Your critical thinking, strategy and creativity are imperative to our campaign success. Your primary marketing channel will be email, but you will also be testing new channels like Facebook Messenger, Facebook ads, and Instagram to get the best conversions. As the driving force behind our influencer marketing campaigns, you care about the outcomes and are constantly monitoring the campaign performance to ensure they meet our client’s goals, on time and on budget.

Qualifications

  • Suggested minimum of 5 years' experience in digital marketing, with a focus on acquisition.
  • Experience with marketing best practices: A/B testing, user funnel reporting, optimization, automation, segmentation, deliverability (we use Mailchimp).
  • Experience crafting and targeting messages for specific audiences and demonstrated ability to convert them.
  • Track, analyze, leverage, and present data from campaign marketing efforts while putting into action opportunities for improvement.
  • Experience with Facebook ads and Google Analytics is ideal.

What We Look For

  • You are data-driven and proactive. You come to the table with a proven track record of success with previous metrics. You can analyze the stats, fill the gaps with reporting, and provide meaningful suggestions for improvements.

  • You are a strategic and analytical thinker. You are able to contribute your own ideas, and think creatively about how to get the best outcome for the company and the customer. You thrive working in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environment. 

  • You are systems oriented. You embrace tools and systems to get what you need out of your role, and dig deep with your resources to come up with creative solutions that keep us on track.

  • You care a lot. You take full ownership over your role and the outcomes. As a result, you pay close attention to detail, never make the same mistake twice, and take initiative to continuously improve outcomes.

  • You're naturally curious and have a growth mindset. You have a high degree of self-motivation and initiative with a drive to learn and grow your role. You like to experiment with new and creative ideas.

  • You have strong organizational and time management skills. In a growing company, there will always be more things to do than you have time for. A+ team members are excellent at staying focused, prioritizing, and automating non value-added work.

  • You have an entrepreneurial spirit. You are adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity and change. You’re comfortable taking on multiple roles, sometimes outside of your comfort zone.

  • You are an excellent relationship builder. You quickly earn trust and confidence with your team. You foster a productive and empowering work environment.

Compensation

Top 3 Reasons to Work with Us

1. Join an influencer marketing company with a purpose. Work with the most progressive brands in the world, and be part of the consumer-powered marketing revolution.

2. Take your next step and grow your career with us. We’re at a critical high-growth stage, where our staff are encouraged to think big and embrace an entrepreneurial mindset. You’ll learn more here than anywhere else, and have the opportunity to make a big impact.

3. Competitive salary, employee stock options, up to 4 weeks paid time off and comprehensive health/dental benefits. We also enjoy a flat hierarchy, bright Gastown office with a green living wall, professional development opportunities, quarterly team events, annual company retreat, and lots of natural snacks and fair trade coffee/tea to keep you fuelled!

Learn more about our team culture and our founder, who was named Canada’s likeliest future entrepreneur queen!

What's Next 

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, please apply directly on our website or send your resume and cover letter to careers@socialnature.com with the subject line: Digital Marketing Strategist

Please note that due to the high volume of applications received only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Senior Sales Executive: Vancouver, BC
Description

Do you want to sell marketing solutions to the most progressive brands in the world?

Our core beliefs are: 

+ Promote good stuff not junk

+ People trust friends not ads 

+ Profit with purpose

Our community of 300K Everyday Influencers helps natural brands across North America co-create and promote new better-for-you products. We imagine a world where everyone’s homes are filled with natural foods, organic skincare, and eco-friendly cleaners.

At Social Nature, our sales team is responsible for growing our business by building new relationships with leading consumer brands and agencies across North America and renewing strategic accounts. One week you might be presenting our solution over the phone to the VP Marketing at a leading natural brand, and the next week hustling the trade show floor the Natural Product Expo in California. This role is based out of our head office in Vancouver BC, but some travel is required. If you thrive at the intersection of passion, performance and purpose than we want to hear from you!

Requirements

Influencer marketing 101

Our marketing solution engages real consumers in our brands marketing efforts. Known as Influencer Marketing this is becoming the fastest growing marketing spend for brands, especially to reach the growing Millennial audience. It is an educational, consultative, and strategic sale all at once.

Who you are

  • Solid strategic sales experience. Minimum 5 years of consultative solution selling experience to senior level decision makers, with a proven track record in meeting and exceeding sales goals, delivering significant revenue and customer growth.
  • Natural builder who loves breaking open new markets, territories, and discovering new ways to grow business.  You have a strong track record in new business development, and strong relationship building skills that translate into sustainable growth for your territory and the company.
  • Creative and strategic thinking skills – the position is charged with building strategic, long-term partnerships with major brand marketers. Being able to think on your feet and to get creative about building customer solutions is one of the key factors in your success at Social Nature.
  • High integrity, consultative, persistent and driven.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment, remember we're a start-up!
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills to C-level executives.
  • Have a good understanding of the influencer/content/digital marketing space.
Responsibilities

What you'll do

  • New business development & renew existing accounts
  • Manage pipeline development, planning, forecasting, lead generation, engagement of prospects, pricing, presentation and delivery, negotiations and closing
  • Partner with our Customer Success team to ensure successful transitions, implementations, customer satisfaction, and ongoing partnership with large direct clients
  • Participate in product strategy with product team
  • Provide input to B2B marketing & sales development team on lead generation programs
Compensation

Top 3 Reasons to Work with Us

1. Join a marketing company with a purpose, work with the most progressive brands in the world, and be part of the consumer-powered marketing revolution.

2. Take your next step and grow your career with us. We’re at a critical high-growth stage, where our staff are encouraged to think big and embrace an entrepreneurial mindset. You’ll learn a lot and have the opportunity to make a big impact.

3. Social Nature is a place where you can align your work with your values. In addition to a competitive salary and uncapped commissions, we have an employee stock options plan, extended health benefits, and a flexible work from home week between Christmas and New Years.

What We Look For

  • You are a strategic and analytical thinker. You are able to contribute your own ideas, and think creatively about how to get the best outcome for the company and the customer. You thrive working in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environment.

  • You care a lot. You take full ownership over your role and the outcomes. You have high empathy and sound active listening skills that generate win-win programs for the client and Social Nature.

  • You're naturally curious and have a growth mindset. You have a high degree of self-motivation and initiative with a drive to learn and grow your role.

  • You have an entrepreneurial spirit. You are adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity and change. You’re comfortable taking on multiple roles, sometimes outside of your comfort zone.

  • You are an excellent relationship builder. You quickly earn trust and confidence with your clients and team members. You foster a productive and empowering work environment.

What’s Next

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, please apply directly on our website or send your resume and cover letter to careers@socialnature.com with the subject line: Senior Sales Executive.

Please note that due to the high volume of applications received only short-listed candidates will be contacted. 

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