Social Media Manager - job 1 of 2

We are a global, socially led creative agency, with unrivalled social media and influencer marketing expertise. With over 1,200 people in four continents, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.

We’re proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help Amazon Music, Activision and Adidas deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date.

As well as creating for clients, we help educate the wider industry. Our Instagram publication The Feed tracks culture at the speed of social. 6,500 people registered or tuned into our events last year, and our reports garnered more than 20 million views.

The Opportunity

Do you spend hours of your day on TikTok, IG Reels or YouTube Shorts?

Want to create award-winning work for one of the most iconic global brands?

How about turning a love for cutting-edge social media trends into your day job?

We’re seeking a Social Media Manager with standout ideas, cultural insights and deep social platform expertise. Obsessed with social trends and chronically online, you’ll understand what drives culture on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. 

This role sits within the global hub team, overseeing and crafting content and social strategy, for a top audio streaming platform. A passion for music, podcasts, and audiobooks—plus the online fandoms shaping them—is a major plus.

You’ll oversee content teams, review work and offer feedback that inspires excellence. Highly organised and thriving in a fast-paced environment, you’ll juggle multiple projects with ease. As a social expert, you’ll know how to connect the brand to communities and culture through contemporary best practice and strategic thinking, instead of content that just adds to the noise. With solid experience (agency or in-house), you’ll take briefs from insight to execution, backing ideas with trends and data.

From strategy and copy editing to campaign oversight and memes, you’ll turn social trends into compelling content that truly impacts online fandom, and the culture around it.

What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere

• Delivered high-quality content ideation and execution by leading teams through fast-paced creation, refinement, and approval processes, ensuring delivery meets client expectations and elevates creative standards.
• Driven impact through effective oversight of long-term, mid-term and reactive content calendars aligning publishing cadence with brand goals and audience behaviour.
• Strengthened content effectiveness by partnering with the relevant creative/strategic leads on your accounts to develop actionable strategies and scalable playbooks.
• Enhanced content relevance and resonance by integrating deep cultural insights and ensuring quality contributions from content creators and writers.
• Maximised team performance by managing, mentoring, and empowering a high performing group of content creators and writers.
• Amplified brand presence by collaborating cross-functionally with creatives on large scale activations that drive awareness and engagement.
• Continuously improved content impact by applying strategic rigor, analysing performance, and optimising outputs based on data-driven insights
  

What Else Are We Looking For?

• A decisive and insights driven social expert who thrives on turning ideas into action. 
• Brings structure and clarity to fast-paced, multi-stream projects while fostering strong collaboration across teams. 
• Known for generating impactful ideas quickly, making confident decisions under pressure, and consistently driving measurable results. 
• Balances creative conviction with analytical thinking always focused on what works and why.
• Presenting to clients and internal teams on your content ideas with strategic insights, trends, and data that has been adopted.
• You will have skills from copywriting and editing copy to shooting TikToks and making memes.

Our Culture and the Nice Stuff

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL. Our Charter for Change in the UK  can be found here which details our focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2025.

If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via recuitment@wearesocial.net

So let’s get to the good stuff,  we offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world! 

But what’s life around here really like day-to-day? Well, we ask our people regularly what they think about us/their role and here are some of the most common things they say:

• I value my manager we have a good relationship
• We love to ‘get social’ with the people I work with
• Trusted to get on with the job, without ‘micro-management’!

If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?