Full-Time

Associate Social and Community Manager

MadeGood

Riverside Natural Foods

Riverside Natural Foods

501-1,000 employees

Manufactures and markets healthy snack products

Compensation Overview

$75k - $90k/yr

+ Profit sharing + 401(k) matching + RRSP matching

Chicago, IL, USA

In Person

Category
Social Media (1)
Required Skills
Social Media
Quality Assurance (QA)
Canva
Video Editing
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides

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Requirements
  • Two to four years of experience in social media, community management, or brand communications.
  • Experience using social publishing, community management, social listening, or analytics tools such as Sprout Social, Meta Business Suite, or similar platforms.
  • Comfort working in PowerPoint, Excel, and Canva.
  • Strong written communication skills and an instinct for brand voice, tone, and consumer engagement.
  • Deep familiarity with social platforms, online communities, creators, cultural trends, and internet behavior.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and workstreams simultaneously.
  • Sound judgment in identifying when consumer questions or issues should be escalated.
  • Ability to work effectively with Social, Brand, Customer Experience, Creative, Public Relations, and agency partners.
Responsibilities
  • Own daily community engagement across MadeGood’s social platforms, including comments, direct messages, mentions, and tagged content.
  • Serve as the frontline voice of MadeGood in consumer interactions.
  • Build 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 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.
  • Proactively engage in relevant cultural and community conversations where MadeGood can participate authentically.
  • Identify highly engaged fans, advocates, creators, and potential community partners.
  • Support the scheduling and publishing of organic social content under the direction of the Social and Influencer Marketing Manager.
  • Conduct quality assurance checks on social posts for accuracy, formatting, tagging, and timely publication.
  • Help maintain the social content calendar and track assets, approvals, publishing dates, and campaign milestones.
  • Support platform-native social content execution, 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 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.
  • Identify opportunities to amplify user-generated content, customer stories, product advocacy, and community-led moments.
  • Monitor social conversations, brand sentiment, share of voice, cultural trends, competitor activity, and platform behavior.
  • Capture and share recurring community questions, feedback, insights, and content opportunities with the broader marketing team.
  • Support monthly social reporting by tracking community management and organic social key performance indicators, maintaining reporting trackers, and surfacing trends and learnings.
  • Support social listening and sentiment reporting around campaigns, product launches, and key brand moments.
  • Coordinate Surprise and Delight initiatives, giveaways, product seeding and gifting, and community appreciation programs, including recipient communication, product coordination, shipping, tracking, and follow-up.
  • Help manage inbound creator, partnership, and community requests by routing opportunities to the appropriate team members.
  • Support broader brand communications programs, including influencer campaigns, public relations 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.
  • Contribute to priority projects across Brand Communications as business needs evolve.
Desired Qualifications
  • Familiarity with basic photo or video editing tools.
Riverside Natural Foods

Riverside Natural Foods

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Riverside Natural Foods makes and distributes healthier snack products under the MadeGood brand, handling research, creation, manufacturing, marketing and selling. MadeGood snacks are developed through research and produced as consumer-ready packaged snacks with healthy ingredients. The company differentiates itself with B Corporation and Zero Waste certifications and by acting as a hub for ongoing innovation in healthy snacking, linking product quality to environmental and community impact. Its goal is to provide credible, healthier snack options while leaving a positive footprint on the environment and communities.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Grant

Total Funding

$8.5M

Headquarters

Vaughan, Canada

Founded

2013

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What believers are saying

  • Amcor says AmFiber cuts virgin plastic 77% and adds curbside recyclability.
  • Revelio Labs counted 27 active Riverside job postings in 2026, signaling ongoing hiring.
  • MadeGood Trail Mix bars launched in Earth Month 2025, expanding beyond granola bars.

What critics are saying

  • FDA classified the December 9, 2024 MadeGood recall as Class II in February 2025.
  • Riverside traced metal contamination to an oven-conveyor brush bristle in 2024 production.
  • Another contamination event would destroy MadeGood trust and threaten Riverside’s core brand.

What makes Riverside Natural Foods unique

  • MadeGood’s certified-organic positioning still anchors Riverside’s brand in better-for-you snacks.
  • Amcor’s April 3, 2025 AmFiber launch gives MadeGood a paper-based packaging edge.
  • Riverside’s 711-employee platform supports national snack manufacturing and product development.

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Benefits

Wellness Program

Mental Health Support

Conference Attendance Budget

Professional Development Budget

RRSP matching or 401k matching

401(k) Company Match

401(k) Retirement Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Home Office Stipend

Phone/Internet Stipend

Hybrid Work Options

Remote Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

Paid Vacation

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Family Planning Benefits

Fertility Treatment Support

Stock Options

Company Equity

401(k) Retirement Plan

RRSP matching or 401k matching

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

0%
Packaging Gateway
Apr 4th, 2025
Riverside Natural Foods selects Amcor's packaging for MadeGood Trail Mix bars

Riverside Natural Foods has collaborated with Amcor to introduce Riverside's MadeGood Trail Mix bars in Amcor's AmFiber paper-based packaging solution.

NBC Boston
Feb 15th, 2025
FDA updates MadeGood granola bar recall to Class II

Riverside Natural Foods, Inc. preemptively issued a voluntary recall of 2,408,883 cases of MadeGood granola bars on Dec. 9, 2024.

Top Class Actions
Dec 23rd, 2024
MadeGood granola bars class action claims product may contain metal

Who: A MadeGood granola bar consumer is suing Riverside Natural Foods Inc.

Boston 25 News
Dec 12th, 2024
Riverside Natural Foods Inc. issues recall for granola bar products for chance of metal in product

Riverside Natural Foods Inc. issues recall for granola bar products for chance of metal in product.

WSMV-TV
Dec 11th, 2024
Recall issued for MadeGood granola bars

On Monday, Riverside Natural Foods Inc. announced it was voluntarily recalling certain batches of its MadeGood bars for the "potential presence of a piece of metal in the product."