Social Media Manager

Role Overview

• 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.

Requirements

The Opportunity

• Do you spend hours of your day on Instagram and TikTok?
• Want to create award-winning work for one of the most iconic global brands?
• How about turning a love for popular culture into a stream of standout social media content?
• We’re seeking a Social Media Manager with brilliant creative ideas, high-quality content creation skills, cultural insights and deep social platform expertise. Obsessed with culture and chronically online, you’ll understand what drives content across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
• This role sits within the UK team, producing and overseeing content for an industry-leading tech brand. 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 agency or in-house experience, you’ll take briefs from insight to execution, backing ideas with trends and data.
• A passion for all things popular culture – from music to podcasts, TV to film, sport, food, and fashion – is a major plus.

****What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere

• Led the ideation and delivery of high-quality social content, capturing on iPhone and editing in CapCut or Adobe Premiere, ensuring fast turnaround, seamless publishing and consistently high 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.
• Enhanced content relevance and resonance by integrating deep cultural insights and ensuring quality contributions from content creators.
• Maximised team performance by managing, mentoring, and empowering content creators.
• 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.**

Benefits

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’!****