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Burdy Grills (posted July 17, 2026)

Burdy sells premium charcoal and grills. We’re a brand new startup, launching this Fall on Kickstarter. Our founder-team develops products from start to finish based on innovations developed through R&D and a whole lot of grilling. 

Content and community manager

We’ve developed a great new grill and we’re ready to share it with the world. We’re looking for a manager experienced in social media content creation and audience engagement to make video content with the founders and distribute content through social channels. This role requires collaboration with the founders on subject matter and brand alignment while owning responsibility for content execution, schedule management, and regular, consistent communication and engagement.

The content and community manager will be responsible for audience communication and engagement as well as planning, creating, and disseminating video content for social channels. This role works closely with the company’s founders to develop communications that align with and strengthen this newly formed brand. When producing content you will work directly with our Chicago-based founder who will serve as the face and voice of Burdy in social content.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with founders to conceptualize and plot out the content plan
• Collaborate with founders to develop audience engagement best practices
• Manage the content plan to ensure a healthy pipeline of posts
• Lead (schedule, plan, prep, shoot, edit) content creation sessions
• Post content to social channels and keep the content schedule current
• Field comments and messages in social channels and email on a consistent, regular basis
• Report on campaigns; both for qualitative insights and for quantitative performance metrics
• Use report insights to inform the ongoing development of the content plan

Location, Schedule, Compensation

This is a hybrid location role. Content creation sessions will be based in Chicago (Edgewater) and require the ability to travel and transport materials and supplies for shoots. Editing, posting, meetings, engagement and other responsibilities can be remote or onsite.

This is a temporary, part-time, contract position with semi-flexible, project-based scheduling. The role requires 30 hours of work per week, with a starting date of July 27th and an end date of October 30th. This role is not guaranteed to lead to full time employment. Compensation is $1500 per week.

Skills

• Fluency with posting and engagement on social platforms
• Planning, directing, shooting, and editing video content geared to social channels
• Schedule management
• Performance reporting
• Professional communication
• Ability to work independently on creative projects and on project planning and preparation
• Willingness to work collaboratively and iteratively on creative projects

To apply email your resume and links to content samples to: hello@burdygrills.com