Associate Social & Community Manager (MadeGood)

Marketing

Riverside Natural Foods is hiring a Associate Social & Community Manager (MadeGood) in Chicago, Illinois. Posted 24 August 2026. Apply directly on Riverside Natural Foods's own careers site — no account needed.

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Join Riverside Natural Foods Ltd., a Canadian-based, family-owned, and globally operating business, committed to leaving the world better than we found it. As a B-Corp certified, Triple-Bottom Line company, we proudly manufacture nutritious, 'better-for-you' snacks such as MadeGood and GOOD TO GO. We value teamwork, humility, respect, ownership, adaptability, grit, and fun.

We’re on an ambitious mission to double our business by 2030, and we need talented individuals like you to help us reach new heights. At Riverside, you’ll have the opportunity to chart your own path to success while contributing to ours. We believe anything worth doing is worth doing right, and our values will guide us through the rugged terrain – and yes, it will get rough. But that’s what makes the journey worthwhile.

So, lace up your boots and let’s tackle the climb together.

You can learn more about us at www.riversidenaturalfoods.com.

Primary Responsibilities:

We're hiring an Associate Social & Community Manager to help shape, build, and grow MadeGood's presence across social media communities. This isn't a traditional community management role. It's an opportunity to help define how a beloved brand shows up in culture, build relationships with consumers in real time, and establish the voice, behaviors, and systems that will power MadeGood's community strategy for years to come.

MadeGood has a passionate and growing fanbase. We're looking for someone who is genuinely obsessed with social media, internet culture, emerging platforms, creators, trends, and the conversations shaping what people care about today. You'll be expected to live at the intersection of culture, community, and content, constantly identifying opportunities for MadeGood to participate in relevant conversations, show up in unexpected places, and build authentic connections with consumers.

In this role, you'll serve as both the frontline voice of the brand and a cultural scout, spotting emerging communities, trends, creators, and moments that can help make MadeGood relevant, relatable, and lovable. You'll help create the infrastructure, guidelines, and processes that enable best-in-class community management while working cross-functionally across Social, Brand, Creative, PR, Customer Experience, and agency partners to bring ideas to life.

Approximately 70% of this role will focus on community management and social media support. The remaining 30% will support broader brand communications initiatives, including influencer programs, PR, partnerships, experiential activations, and special projects. Reporting to the Senior Marketing Manager, Brand Communications, and working closely with the Social & Influencer Marketing Manager, you'll own day-to-day community engagement and support social content execution while gaining exposure to the broader brand communications function.

Community Management & Engagement

Serve as the frontline voice of MadeGood, engaging with consumers in a friendly, thoughtful, timely, and on-brand way.

Own daily community engagement across MadeGood’s social platforms, including comments, direct messages, mentions, and tagged content.

Proactively engage in relevant cultural and community conversations where MadeGood can participate authentically.

Identify highly engaged fans, advocates, creators, and potential community partners.

Build meaningful relationships with community members by identifying opportunities to engage beyond standard responses.

Monitor consumer conversations, questions, feedback, and sentiment, escalating sensitive or complex issues when appropriate.

Partner closely with Customer Experience to ensure consistent responses, seamless handoffs, and timely issue resolution.

Help maintain and evolve community management guidelines, response templates, brand voice standards, and escalation processes.

Social Content Support & Publishing

Support the scheduling and publishing of organic social content under the direction of the Social & Influencer Marketing Manager.

Conduct quality assurance checks to ensure posts are accurate, properly formatted, tagged correctly, and published on time.

Help maintain the social content calendar, tracking assets, approvals, publishing dates, and campaign milestones.

Support the execution of platform-native social content, including light editing, formatting, filming, and content capture as needed.

Assist with sourcing community content, user-generated content, and social-first creative opportunities.

Coordinate with internal and external partners to collect the assets and information required for social publishing.

Stay current on platform features, best practices, emerging formats, and changes across Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and other relevant channels.

Community-Led Content, Insights & Programs

Identify opportunities to amplify user-generated content, customer stories, product love, and community-led moments.

Monitor social conversations, brand sentiment, share of voice, cultural trends, competitor activity, and platform behavior to help keep MadeGood relevant and responsive.

Coordinate Surprise & Delight initiatives, giveaways, product seeding and gifting, community appreciation programs, including recipient communication, product coordination, shipping, tracking, and follow-up.

Help manage inbound creator, partnership, and community requests, routing opportunities to the appropriate team members.

Capture and share recurring community questions, feedback, insights, and content opportunities with the broader marketing team.

Support monthly social reporting by tracking topline community management and organic social KPIs, maintaining reporting trackers, and surfacing notable trends and learnings to the Social & Influencer Marketing Manager.

Support social listening and sentiment reporting around campaigns, product launches, and key brand moments.

Brand Communications Support & Special Projects

Support the execution of broader brand communications programs, including influencer campaigns, PR initiatives, partnerships, experiential activations, product launches, and events.

Help coordinate campaign timelines, assets, approvals, product shipments and cross-functional deliverables.

Conduct research on consumers, competitors, cultural trends, creators, media opportunities, and potential brand partners.

Assist with developing presentations, briefs, campaign recaps, performance reports, and other internal materials.

Support project tracking by documenting action items, maintaining timelines, organizing working sessions, and following up on deliverables.

Jump into priority projects across Brand Communications as business needs evolve.

Education and Qualifications: 

2–4 years of experience in social media, community management or brand communications.

Experience using social publishing, community management, listening, or analytics tools such as Sprout Social, Meta Business Suite, or similar platforms.

Comfort working in PowerPoint, Excel, and Canva; familiarity with basic photo or video editing tools is an asset.

Skills and Abilities:

Deep passion for social media, internet culture, emerging platforms, creators, and online communities, with a natural instinct for spotting what's next before it becomes mainstream.

Ability to identify cultural moments, trends, conversations, and communities where MadeGood can authentically participate and create value.

Strong point of view on social content, platform behaviors, and what makes brands relevant in culture.

Entrepreneurial mindset with excitement for building processes and infrastructure from the ground up.

Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and workstreams at once.

Sound judgment and confidence identifying when consumer questions or issues should be escalated.

A collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively with Social, Brand, Customer Experience, Creative, PR, and agency partners.

A proactive, curious, and solutions-oriented approach, with an eagerness to learn and grow within social and brand marketing.

Functional & Leadership Competencies:

Community & Cultural Opportunities – Identifies actionable community, creator, trend, cultural, or partnership opportunities.

Community Growth – Identifies and nurtures engaged fans, creators, community groups into ongoing brand advocates

Community Insights & Influence – Drives consistent delivery of actionable consumer, cultural, and community insights that inform content, campaigns, partnerships, and brand decisions.

Consumer & Community Orientation — Demonstrates a strong understanding of consumer needs, conversations, and behaviors and builds authentic relationships that strengthen trust in the MadeGood brand.

Communication & Brand Stewardship — Communicates clearly, thoughtfully, and consistently while protecting and strengthening MadeGood’s brand voice across consumer touchpoints.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Partnership — Works effectively across Social, Brand, Customer Experience, Creative, PR, agencies, and other partners to deliver coordinated outcomes.

Judgment & Accountability — Takes ownership of day-to-day responsibilities, exercises sound judgment, and appropriately escalates sensitive or complex issues.

Executional Excellence — Demonstrates strong attention to detail, organization, prioritization, and follow-through while managing multiple workstreams and deadlines.

Curiosity & Continuous Learning — Maintains awareness of evolving platforms, cultural conversations, creators, trends, and consumer behaviors and applies relevant learnings to the work.

Proactivity & Agility — Anticipates needs, identifies opportunities, solves problems, and adapts effectively as priorities and business needs evolve.

Key Accountabilities 

Responsibility	KPI / Metric	Target
Community & Cultural Opportunities	Number of actionable creator, cultural, trend, community, or partnership opportunities identified, socialized, and activated by the brand	Quarterly target to be established
Community Growth	Number of engaged fans, creators, advocates, and community groups identified and nurtured into ongoing brand relationships, programs, content, or partnerships	Quarterly target to be established
Community Insights & Influence	Delivery of actionable consumer, community, cultural, and trend insights that directly inform content, campaigns, partnerships, or brand initiatives	To be established
Community Responsiveness	% of social comments, DMs, mentions, and tagged content responded to within established response-time standards	Target to be established
Community Engagement Quality	% of community interactions meeting brand voice, quality, and response guidelines	Target to be established
Consumer Issue Resolution	% of issues appropriately routed/escalated and resolved within agreed service levels in partnership with Customer Experience	Target to be established
Social Publishing Excellence	% of scheduled organic social posts published accurately and on time without preventable errors	Target to be established
Content Calendar Management	% of assigned social deliverables with assets, approvals, and publishing requirements completed by deadline	Target to be established
Community & Social Insights	Delivery of recurring community, sentiment, trend, and performance insights through monthly reporting	Monthly / target thresholds to be established
Community-Led Opportunities	Number and/or quality of actionable UGC, advocacy, creator, cultural, or community opportunities identified and surfaced	Target to be established
Community Programs	% of assigned Surprise & Delight, gifting, seeding, and giveaway initiatives completed accurately and on schedule	Target to be established
Brand Communications Execution	% of assigned influencer, PR, partnership, experiential, launch, and special-project deliverables completed by agreed deadlines	Target to be established
Cross-Functional Execution	% of assigned actions and deliverables completed on time across cross-functional projects	Target to be established

Please note this role as a new vacancy.

Salary Range

$75,000—$90,000 USD

At Riverside, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation and job posting practices. The range above reflects the target compensation for the position at the time of posting. Exact compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education, and training, as well as other organizational needs, while balancing internal equity.

What we expect:

Values-led: You’ll be a member of a thoughtful and compassionate team that prioritizes respect, teamwork and resourcefulness along with a good dash of fun. Sometimes, even making granola bars is hard, and life’s too short to take ourselves so seriously that we don’t enjoy the journey.
Unparalleled experiences and opportunities: We’re still determining who we are and what we can be. Help us shape what this organization will look like and what we’ll offer the world, into the future. This means rolling up your sleeves and sometimes building the process – fast! – while employing it. At Riverside, progress occasionally means proceeding imperfectly, and we’re okay with that, as long as we’re staying true to our values and learning and improving along the way.
Access to everyone: We’re a flat organization with few silos which means you’ll have full access to everyone from our founders to our production staff. Even when employees dress up, they wear steel-toed shoes. So don’t be shy. Speak up, share your ideas and go places you normally wouldn’t – like the plant, or the boardroom.
Personal development: We’ll support and empower you to chart your own path and reach any heights you set for yourself. Career paths at Riverside are carved by the people walking on them, not dictated by leaders. Count on us to give you the training and tools to grow and progress.
Gratitude: As a growing business, we can’t always offer formal recognition like awards programs, but we do show our true gratitude and appreciation. At Riverside, we’re all in this together and we value you.
Be a Riverside Brand Ambassador: Stay relentlessly close to our consumers and represent the brand in every interaction, decision, and deliverable. Bring the consumer voice into your work by protecting product quality, availability, and experience, acting early when standards slip, and delivering consistent value that earns trust, advocacy, and long-term brand love.

What We Offer:

Values-led: We don’t cut corners or step on anyone or anything on our way to our summit. There is no winning at all costs here. Every step you take must align with our values, no compromises.
Courageous determination: As a family-run, rapidly growing business, we are often challenged to find ways to deliver that aren’t obvious or easy. You must be willing to try, ask and answer challenging questions, test and learn, turn over every stone, keep moving forward and help us find a way through. Resourcefulness and grit will be your constant companions at Riverside and will serve you well.
Humility: We’re a small (but growing) fish in a sea of whales and sharks. We know the products we offer are some of the healthiest and most sustainable, but we don’t brag about it, and know we have a steep path ahead. We pride ourselves in being respectful and supportive of others while shining brightly through our innovative, high-quality products. There isn’t one superstar at Riverside. We take turns leading the way as we climb to the summit.
Continuous improvement: As a learn-as-we-go organization, we rely on each other to continuously improve everything we touch to make it better, more efficient, more sustainable, and more endearing to customers, consumers, employees, vendors, partners and the community. We own our mistakes and learn from them as we wind our way to the top.

Wait! There’s more!

Immerse yourself in our comprehensive benefits program, with Riverside taking care of the costs!
RRSP matching or 401k matching for an empowered financial journey
Eligibility to participate in Riverside's Profit Sharing Plan
Join Employee-Led Resource Groups (ERGs) championing mental health, sustainability, diversity, women, and LGBTQ+ rights
Develop your career further through our Riverside University program and with our Tuition Reimbursement Program
An open concept work environment that embodies our Values

How to Apply:

If you have the commitment to excellence, the energy, the attitude and experience we need, then please submit your resume to careers(AT)riversidenaturals.com with the job title you are applying for in the subject line or click the apply button!

Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you have a disability and require accommodation in the interview process, please let us know when you apply. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, due to volume, please note that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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