About Us

Arno’s mission is to enable everyone in the world to learn English. We’re a profitable, bootstrapped company with almost 200,000 users in over 200 countries. Currently, our product helps people get ready for the Duolingo English Test, an English proficiency test that is quickly overtaking older tests like TOEFL and IELTS. Our users’ favorite feature in Arno is the personalized feedback we provide on their writing and speaking using large language models (LLMs).

The team consists of just the founders, Makoto and Otto. We already have a strong presences on SEO and on YouTube. We want to get some help using social media to get more users. That’s where you come in 🙂

Job Description

In a nutshell, Otto will generate the raw footage. He will hand that over to you and you will work with our video editors to turn those into short-form social media content. Then, you will be responsible for posting the content to TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, including writing the titles and descriptions. In addition, we want to hear your suggestions for how we can improve our social media presence. It would be our dream to have someone own our social media motion, so this is very much a position where you will have room to shine and will be rewarded with more and more responsibility.

We value hunger, work ethic, and the ability to learn more than experience. This is especially true in the realm of social media, which is constantly changing.

This position will pay $20 per hour, up to 10 hours per week. However, as the business grows, so will our marketing budget.

Responsibilities

Work with our video editors to turn raw footage into polished, performant short-form social media content
Create the titles, description, and other metadata for each post
Manage the posting schedule across the various social media platforms
Analyze the performance of the content
Help us refine our social media strategy and improve our social media presence

Who Will Do Great in This Role

Someone with…

Attention to detail
High degree of English proficiency
Genuine interest in creating engaging and educational social media content
Ideas for the kinds of content that will resonant best with our target audience
Desire to help people (most of our users are young people in developing and middle-income countries who dream of studying abroad but don’t have a lot of money)
A global perspective (i.e. an understanding that people in different countries have different tastes in social media content)
Hunger to make an impact

Benefits

100% remote
100% flexible hours
You will be a part-time contractor, so there are no additional benefits like healthcare or wellness benefits.

What the Interview Process Looks Like

If you’re interested in this position, please fill out this form.
If we think you could be a good fit, we will ask you to come up with 5 recommendations to improve our social media presence. You will be paid $25 for your time.
If we found your recommendations compelling, we will ask you to do a 30-minute phone interview with the founders. Most of this time will be for you to ask us any questions and for all of us to make sure that we would enjoy working together 🙂

We look forward to reading your application!

Arno

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