Responsibilities Serve as day-to-day contact for mid and senior level clients, managing ongoing social workstreams to ensure delivery of best-in-class content and strategic solutions. Build trusting client relationships across the brand’s organization, navigating client approval processes and structure. Serve as main point of contact for internal agency team, partnering with the data and analytics team to uncover valuable insights to share with clients and enhance work, and creative and strategy teams to deliver impactful creative recommendations and content.  Manage multiple projects of varying scale, with the ability to manage up and down to ensure the team meets deadlines and stays on budget. Have a pulse on social culture and identify critical issues, trends, and opportunities for clients and their audiences.  Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of clients’ businesses and their missions as well as key stakeholders both internally at Microsoft and externally with partners, consumers, etc.  Cultivate strong, cross-practice client relationships to develop opportunities to grow business with existing and new potential clients. Basic QualificationsExperience in Communications Marketing and/or related fields, including public relations, digital marketing, content marketing, paid media/advertising, management consulting, or publishing, preferably within an agency setting.  Experience developing digital and social communications programming and plans and implementing best practices  Exhibited ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.  Must be a self-starter who is comfortable solving problems independently by seeking solutions and efficiencies.   Superior written and verbal communication skills Fun, engaging, team-first attitude; collaborative and inclusive working style $85 - $110 an hour#LI-AU1
*Please note that freelancers are hired as W-2 temp employees. We are not able to contract folks through personal LLCs, sole proprietor businesses, or the like.*Assembly occasionally converts freelancers to full-time-employees to support this growing business. Please note that potential for conversion is limited to candidates willing to work a hybrid schedule at an Edelman office.
Assembly is an integrated agency providing purpose-built communications to Microsoft – bringing strategy, creative, research, social and digital, and influencer marketing together to drive tangible business results and advance Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.  We advocate for ideas based on real audience insights and sound strategic opportunities and bring them to life with creative executions that earn attention. We are the team behind some of Microsoft’s most exciting work across Surface, Xbox, M365, and Windows to name a few. We are the lead agency for the Microsoft brand across social; the global PR agency of record for Xbox; and the influencer agency of record for Xbox, Surface, M365 and Windows. Assembly is also a strategic partner for executive communications across Microsoft Store and several executives across the company. Our results are a direct reflection of our culture and people – we believe that bringing together diverse perspectives enhance creativity and innovation, and we embrace and celebrate differences both in our organization and through our work. We’ve partnered with Microsoft for 27 years, across 17 countries around the world.  Come be a part of our collective story as we partner with Microsoft to enable each other to achieve more. Assembly Media was founded in 2014 under DJE Holdings to exclusively service Microsoft. In 2019 our parent agency, Edelman, was recognized by AdAge as one of the top 10 creative companies in the U.S. and recognized as a 2019 Best Place to Work.
Assembly is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.