NYC Launch Coordinator

Department

Marketing

Location

New York City, NY / Hybrid

Job Type

Part-time

Pay Type

Project-based

Pay Range

$500–$1,000/month base + performance bonuses

Job Overview

GoShopBlack is hiring a NYC Launch Coordinator to help grow our New York City launch.

This role is for someone who understands local culture, enjoys talking to business owners, and can help us connect with Black-owned restaurants, beauty/nail businesses, clothing stores, service providers, and local events across NYC.

The main goal is to help GoShopBlack become known in New York by finding great businesses, helping them get listed, coordinating content visits, and making sure local businesses and customers know about the platform.

This is a part-time contract role with a monthly base payment plus performance bonuses for approved listings, paid setup signups, content visits, and business reposts.

Performance bonuses may include:

– Bonus for each approved business listing.
– Bonus for each paid setup signup.
– Bonus for each completed content visit.
– Bonus when a business reposts GoShopBlack content.
– Additional bonus for reaching weekly or monthly launch goals.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

– Find and research Black-owned businesses across NYC, including restaurants, beauty/nail businesses, clothing/retail stores, service businesses, and local events.
– Contact businesses through Instagram DM, email, phone, and in-person visits when appropriate.
– Help businesses understand GoShopBlack and encourage them to create or claim their listing.
– Coordinate content visits with businesses and local content creators.
– Collect business information, photos, videos, social links, websites, addresses, and owner/manager contact details.
– Help organize NYC business leads in a spreadsheet or CRM.
– Follow up with businesses after outreach.
– Encourage businesses to repost GoShopBlack content.
– Track weekly progress, including businesses contacted, responses received, listings created, content visits completed, and reposts secured.
– Help identify strong local partnership opportunities, events, and community marketing ideas.

Requirements

Requirements:

– Must be familiar with New York City neighborhoods and local business culture.
– Strong communication skills.
– Comfortable messaging, calling, and speaking with business owners.
– Organized and able to track outreach clearly.
– Familiar with Instagram, TikTok, and short-form content.
– Interested in supporting Black-owned businesses and local entrepreneurship.
– Able to work independently and provide weekly updates.
– Prior experience in marketing, community outreach, sales, content creation, or local business promotion is helpful but not required.
– Must be reliable, professional, and comfortable representing GoShopBlack to local businesses.