One of the questions we ask during interviews is, “Why do you want to work at Torx?” We’ve heard a wide variety of answers, but the primary reason is that you almost certainly want to get paid. We get it. It’s a job. A job is NOT your entire existence though, and while we do work hard here, we also understand that there is life outside of Torx. We have deadlines to meet and clients to please just like any other agency, but we also make every attempt to maintain a casual and stress-free work-life balance. Check out some absolutely-not-staged photos below, and then scroll a bit further to learn about our benefits and perks.
Careers @ Torx
We’re not looking for “rockstars”, “ninjas” or “gurus”. But we ARE looking for ambitious and talented individuals who have an interest in all things digital marketing. It doesn’t matter if you’re fresh out of school or have been around the block a few times. If you are a web developer, an account manager, or if you have experience in other areas of digital marketing, we’d love to hear from you. Read on to learn more about working at Torx.
Benefits + Perks
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Health Insurance
After a short 3-month waiting period, all full-time employees are eligible to participate in Torx’s group health insurance plan. Torx pays for 50% of the total cost of an enrolled employee’s health insurance premium.
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Retirement Benefits
Torx’s Simple IRA retirement benefits begin after a 6-month waiting period for new team members. Our Northwestern Mutual representative will help employees determine how to best set up their contributions, and Torx will match a maximum of 3%.
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Profit Sharing
When the business has a profitable year, so do our team members. Every December, we crunch the year’s numbers, and a portion of Torx’s profits get shared between everyone. It’s MUCH better than a one-year membership to the Jelly of the Month Club!
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Performance Reviews + Pay Raises
It should go without saying that team members are compensated for the value that they add to the business. Contributions and achievements and recognized, and pay raises are determined during annual performance reviews.
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Paid Vacation Time
All new employees immediately receive 10 paid vacation days per year. Additional paid vacation days are awarded EVERY year until the maximum limit of 20 days/year is reached at the beginning of a team member’s 7th year.
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Paid Sick Leave
Our sick leave policy is quite simple. If you’re sick, don’t come into the office! Team members do not have a maximum number of sick days per year, and that policy will remain in place as long as it doesn’t get abused.
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Maternity / Paternity Leave
Torx’s maternity leave policy consists of 2 weeks of paid leave + the option of up to 4 additional weeks of unpaid leave. Our paternity leave policy consists of 1 week of paid leave + the option of up to 4 additional weeks of unpaid leave. An employee’s health insurance premium remains uninterrupted during the optional period of unpaid leave.
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Coffee
We have coffee… LOTS of coffee… all kinds of different flavors. It’s free. Come help us drink it all!
Available Positions
Currently available positions are listed below. Even if a particular position is not listed, if you’re interested in a career at Torx, we’d love to hear from you! Interested in joining our team? Send your résumé to careers@torxmedia.com!
Digital Marketing Assistant
Full-Time
We are currently searching for a Digital Marketing Assistant who will be able to provide support and collaborate with our Account Manager and Digital Marketing Specialist team members. This is a newly-created position, and it is essentially a unique hybrid role consisting of Account Manager responsibilities as well as duties associated with social media marketing, search engine marketing (pay-per-click), and content marketing. We envision this to be a “junior” role, but we are certainly willing to speak with candidates who happen to have more experience.
For the account management part of this position, prior project management experience is desired, but not necessarily a must-have. The ideal candidate should excel in managing clients, accounts, projects, and other team members. This individual will be a primary point-of-contact for our clients and agency partners.
For the digital marketing part of this position, prior experience with social media marketing and pay-per-click advertising (Google Ads) is desired. The ideal candidate will possess at least some experience with managing paid ads via Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media channels. A content marketing mindset, strong initiative, motivation, and ambitiousness are pluses.
The following list of desired skills is LONG. We certainly understand that ideal candidates will not be able to check all of these boxes. Our intent is to share skills and qualities that are most important and relevant to this position.
Required Skills
- Accomplishes project objectives by planning and evaluating project activities.
- Manages day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
- Effectively applies the company’s methodologies and philosophies and enforces project standards.
- Ensures designers and programmers are on schedule to meet deadlines and stay within budget.
- Facilitates team and client meetings effectively.
- Effectively communicates relevant project information to senior management.
- Delivers engaging, informative, well-organized presentations.
- Identifies opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change.
- Sets and manages client expectations.
- Continually seeks opportunities to increase client satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
- Interpret clients’ business goals in order to develop informational, educational, and entertaining content.
- Demonstrate the ability to create original content that engages the audience and builds trust.
- Utilize creative writing skills to create compelling social media, search engine marketing, and email marketing campaigns.
- Introduce and execute the concept of brand storytelling throughout social media, blogs, and content marketing for multiple clients.
- Become an advocate for clients in social media channels, engaging and answering questions where appropriate.
- Manage a wide variety of clients’ social media channels including, but not limited to, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, etc.
- Create customized reports, analyze results based on business goals, and develop educated recommendations.
- Monitor trends in search engine marketing, email marketing, and social media marketing tools, applications, services, and strategy.
- Possess high-caliber creative writing, proofreading, editing, and verbal communication skills.
- Effectively collaborate with clients as well as internal teams.
- Possess superior time management, attention to detail, ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.
Interested in this position? Send your résumé to careers@torxmedia.com!
WordPress Developer
Full-Time
We are currently looking to hire a full-time WordPress Developer. In addition to demonstrating familiarity with WordPress’s front-end features and functionality, the ideal candidate will also possess strong HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP skills. This is a full-time position, located on-site at our office in Richmond, VA. We work with a very wide variety of clients and partners – local, regional and national. The ability to multitask and routinely pivot between multiple projects is required for this position. The majority of our clients’ websites are developed on the WordPress platform, and our goal is to find a talented WordPress developer who will help us continue providing our clients and partners with professional and reliable services.
Required Skills
- At least 2 years of front-end WordPress experience, including fluency in setting up and maintaining websites via WP Admin.
- At least 2 years of back-end WordPress experience, including being comfortable with functions.php, as well as the ability to utilize HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP to modify theme template files.
- Familiarity with popular WordPress plugins such as, but not limited to, Advanced Custom Fields, WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, Yoast SEO, etc.
- At least 4 years hands-on HTML and CSS experience.
- Strong multitasking abilities.
- The ability to be extremely detail-oriented and thorough.
- A willingness to learn new skills and technologies.
Additional Desired Skills
- Any Javascript experience, specifically with jQuery.
- Any PHP and MySQL experience outside of the WordPress platform, including experience with OOP.
- Design experience and/or understanding design concepts as they apply to the web.
- A willingness to work within MacOS.
Interested in this position? Send your résumé to careers@torxmedia.com!