Marketing Assistant- Chief Creative Genius Officer Full Time

Marketing Assistant & Brand Partnerships Position

We’re looking for a smart, creative, highly organized Marketing Assistant who is excited to help build a brand that sits at the intersection of comfort, education, and impact.

Nerdbugs is an award-winning brand creating adorable anatomical plushies, educational tools, and comfort-driven products that help people understand their bodies in a fun, approachable, and meaningful way.

Founded by a family medicine physician and mom, Nerdbugs was built from a simple but powerful idea: health should feel less scary, more human, and a whole lot more comforting. What started as one idea in a hospital room has grown into a fast-growing brand loved by kids, families, educators, hospitals, and healthcare professionals across the country.

This is a role for someone who loves great storytelling, strong marketing, beautiful brand experiences, and meaningful work. If you’re the kind of person who gets excited about creative campaigns, compelling copy, trend spotting, and helping a mission-driven brand grow, we’d love to meet you.

Qualifications

• Super organized with top-notch communication skills (written + verbal!)
• Tech-savvy to the max and quick to learn new tools
• A team player who genuinely LOVES collaborating
• Independent, detail-obsessed, and always one step ahead
• A creative, out-of-the-box thinker with strong follow-through
• Equal parts strategic and scrappy
• Excited by storytelling, marketing, and mission-driven brands

What You’ll Do

• Help plan and execute fun, strategic campaigns across email, social, and influencer marketing
• Write witty, warm, engaging copy for emails, captions, hooks, and scripts
• Support content planning around gifting moments, awareness campaigns, trends, and educational themes
• Help with email setup, campaign organization, and reporting
• Create or support graphics, visuals, and marketing assets that feel playful, polished, and on-brand
• Keep marketing calendars, assets, and timelines organized
• Research creative ideas, trends, and partnership opportunities
• Collaborate closely with the team to bring big ideas to life

What you’ll do:

Campaign Support + Marketing Strategy

• Help plan and execute seasonal, educational, and mission-driven campaigns across email, social media, influencer, and community channels
• Support campaign calendars, launches, promotions, and brand moments tied to health observances, gifting, and education
• Track campaign goals, performance, and insights, and help identify ways to improve results
• Research trends, awareness campaigns, and cultural moments that align with the brand

Email Marketing + Copywriting

• Help write compelling subject lines, preview text, and email copy that drives opens, clicks, and engagement
• Assist with campaign setup, organization, and QA in Klaviyo or similar platforms
• Contribute ideas to monthly email themes, educational content, promotions, and product storytelling

Social Media Copy + Content Support

• Write engaging captions, scripts, hooks, and content copy in the Nerdbugs brand voice
• Help turn health, education, and product concepts into fun, relatable, scroll-stopping storytelling
• Collaborate on content structure, messaging, and creative ideas designed to increase reach and engagement

Brand Voice + Creative Consistency

• Help maintain the Nerdbugs voice across platforms: warm, witty, inclusive, playful, smart, and human
• Ensure brand consistency across copy, graphics, videos, and campaign assets
• Support a cohesive visual and emotional brand experience across email, social, web, and marketing materials

Design + Creative Direction

• Support the creation of email layouts, social graphics, digital assets, and brand visuals
• Collaborate with the marketing team on creative assets for campaigns, product launches, and website updates
• Help translate educational ideas and product features into visuals that are compelling, approachable, and on-brand

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with leadership and the marketing, education, social, and operations teams to keep projects moving
• Help manage timelines, campaign assets, and calendars using Monday.com or similar tools
• Support reporting across email, social media, and broader marketing initiatives
• Assist with creative reviews and content testing to improve performance over time

Partnerships + Brand Growth

• Support marketing efforts tied to B2B partnerships across healthcare, education, retail, and museum channels
• Assist with influencer and ambassador outreach
• Help identify media, PR, and brand visibility opportunities

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience with Klaviyo, Canva, Shopify, Metricool, Monday.com, Slack, or Google Workspace
• Copywriting, content, or storytelling experience
• Experience with healthcare, education, parenting, gifting, or mission-driven brands
• Experience working with influencers or creators

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Meaningful work with a woman-founded, mission-driven brand
• A creative role where your ideas actually matter
• Flexible, collaborative team culture
• The chance to grow with a fast-moving brand that’s doing good in the world
• A whole lot of heart, humor, and purpose
• Meaningful work with a woman-founded, mission-driven brand
• A creative role where your ideas actually matter
• Flexible, collaborative team culture
• The chance to grow with a fast-moving brand that’s doing good in the world
• A whole lot of heart, humor, and purpose

Nerdbugs Mission:

Nerdbugs is an award-winning line of adorable and lovable anatomical plush toys, with a mission to increase awareness of health conditions, help reduce stigma, and foster a kinder, more accepting world.

About our founder:

Nerdbugs started for one simple reason: to help people understand their bodies in a fun, engaging way that celebrates our differences. As a family medicine doctor, Dr. Mehta saw firsthand how important it is to have accessible and engaging health education to bridge the gap between complex medical concepts and everyday understanding.

At the heart of our mission is a commitment to raising awareness about medical and mental health conditions, reducing stigma, and fostering a kinder, more accepting world. We hope that, regardless of diagnosis, we can help people feel seen and remind them that they are so much more than their medical conditions.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $15.00 – $18.00 per hour

Application Question(s):

• Why are you interested in this role?
• Are you willing to share a 1-2 minute video to introduce yourself prior to the interview?
• Do you have experience working with managing marketing for small businesses or ecommerce brands?
• Are you located in or near Madison, Wisconsin or near to be onsite on occassion?

Experience:

• Marketing: 1 year (Required)
• Copywriting: 1 year (Required)

Location:

• Madison, WI 53719 (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Madison, WI 53719