Content Specialist

Come work and play in the mountains! Whether it’s your first-time seeing snow or you were born on the slopes, joining our team means discovering (or re-discovering!) a passion for the outdoors while building lifelong connections with teammates and guests from around the world. With 40+ resorts across 3 continents, you can join our team for a season or stay to build a career.

Benefits

• Free Epic pass(es) for employees, free ski and snowboard lessons
• 40% retail discounts
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Excellent training and professional development (Epic Service)
• Referral Program
• Employee discounts on lodging, food, gear, and mountain shuttles
• Free ski passes for dependents (for eligible full-time roles)
• Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, and Vision plans (for eligible seasonal employees after working 500 hours)
• Critical Illness and Accident plans

About the Role

Stowe Mountain Resort is hiring a full-time, year-round Content Specialist to assist with content creation, resort storytelling, and social media management. The primary responsibility is to capture timely, in-the-moment photo and video content assets from the resort experience during the season to leverage across Vail Resorts’ various digital channels and platforms.

This position will assist in capturing and producing creative and content elements needed to promote the resort from a communications perspective, including strategic planning, content capture, production, posting, distribution, and community management of channels such as social media, website, PR distribution channels, and more.

The Content Specialist will help promote and build the resort’s brand and reputation, ensuring content aligns with the resort’s clearly defined brand and communications guidelines. The role involves hands-on participation in various on-the-ground marketing and communications projects, delivering results in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Assist with creation of multimedia content and creative asset development for social media, digital, video, website, blogs, CRM, offline advertising campaigns, and other platforms.
• Utilize strong storytelling skills to bring the resort brand to life across a variety of platforms and mediums.
• Assist with social and digital media content ideation, creation, posting, community management, and reporting.
• Independently capture, shoot, edit, and publish multimedia content under tight deadlines.
• Maintain a content production calendar with an organized schedule of cadenced messaging needs.
• Assist with larger-scale resort brand photo and video shoots.
• Organize and lead smaller-scale resort photo and video shoots, including contracted models and photographers/videographers.
• Work closely with the resort communications team to create messaging aligned with the resort brand.
• Manage and track photo and video assets.
• Assist with various PR-related storytelling content needs as required.
• Support web content, creation of articles and listicles, social media channel content, content coverage of resort events/attractions/conditions, and CRM content contribution.
• Collaborate with vendors, agencies, and contractors in the resort’s content creation network to amalgamate, edit, and distribute creative and content assets.
• Perform basic administrative duties and other assigned tasks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, preferably in Communications, Journalism, or Marketing.
• Strong storytelling and copywriting skills.
• An eye for visual design, with the ability to work independently to capture photo and video assets.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Understanding and knowledge of social media platforms.
• Experience with Sprout Social and other social media management programs is a plus.
• Intermediate or above skiing or snowboarding ability.
• High-quality photo and video capture and editing experience is preferred.
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud—especially Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro—is a plus.
• Ability to communicate with guests thoughtfully via social media in the resort’s brand voice.
• Comfortable shooting, editing, and publishing video content, including proficiency with GoPro cameras and phone apps.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
• Must be organized and thrive managing multiple projects at once.
• Must be able to work within a flexible schedule to capture content at specific times (e.g., prior to resort openings, following major snowfall, during events, weekends, etc.).
• Must be comfortable engaging in-person with guests, models, and other resort employees to capture content in natural and authentic ways.
• Must be familiar with leveraging and engaging with guests in a brand voice via social media platforms and channels.
• Must speak, read, and communicate fluently in English.
• Must be able to ski or snowboard.

Pay

Starting wage: $22/hr - $24/hr. This is the pay range we reasonably expect to pay for this position. Individual compensation decisions are based on a variety of factors.

Candidates for year-round positions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications will be accepted up to 90 days after the posting date or until the position is filled, whichever comes first.