Pumpkin is a corporate holding company managing a diverse portfolio of modern pet health brands. They are seeking a Social Media Marketing Manager to build and lead a comprehensive social media program, focusing on brand awareness, community engagement, and demand generation.
Responsibilities:
- Build the enterprise-wide social media strategy, including channel roles, audience segmentation, content pillars, publishing cadence, and measurement framework
- Develop a cross-funnel approach that supports brand awareness, community building, engagement, conversion, and retention
- Establish the governance model (policies, workflows, R&R’s, escalation paths)
- Recommend tools and platforms needed for publishing, analytics, monitoring, and customer care
- Create and manage an integrated content calendar aligned to marketing campaigns, product launches, and company initiatives
- Write, edit, and produce compelling social-first content across formats (copy, short-form video, graphics, paid social assets)
- Optimize each channel for best practices across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X/Twitter, Reddit, and emerging platforms
- Maintain brand voice consistency while adapting messaging appropriately by channel and audience
- Grow brand presence and visibility by cultivating authentic, two-way engagement with target audiences
- Develop a community strategy that fosters conversation, advocacy, and loyalty
- Identify partnerships, influencers, and UGC opportunities to increase reach and credibility
- Collaborate with demand gen, digital, and product marketing teams to design full-funnel paid + organic social campaigns
- Build reporting to track contribution toward pipeline, lead quality, CAC, and conversions
- Optimize targeting, messaging, and creative to drive measurable business outcomes
- Implement a social listening framework to monitor brand sentiment, competitive signals, and emerging issues
- Develop and oversee first-response guidelines for customer inquiries, complaints, and escalations
- Partner with Customer Experience, PR/Communications, and Legal on issue management and crisis communication protocols
- Ensure consistent and timely responses to social inquiries, working cross-functionally as needed
- Establish KPI architecture spanning awareness, engagement, community growth, lead generation, and customer satisfaction
- Produce dashboards and executive reporting that clearly communicate performance and insights
- Continuously test and iterate creative, messaging, and formats based on data
- Serve as the organization’s social media subject matter expert, guiding stakeholders and educating teams on best practices
- Work closely with Brand, PR/Comms, Customer Support, Product Marketing, HR/Talent Brand, and Sales
- Build a scalable operating model that can support future team growth
Requirements:
- 5–8 years of hands-on social media marketing experience, ideally in a B2C organization with complex customer journeys
- Demonstrated success building or significantly scaling a social media function
- Expertise in paid + organic social strategy and execution
- Strong writing, storytelling, and creative development skills
- Proficiency with social tools (e.g. Sprinklr)
- Experience with social listening, customer care programs, and issues management
- Analytical mindset with a track record of using data to drive decisions and optimize performance
- Familiarity with customer support processes or crisis comms
- Background in community management or influencer marketing
- Experience working cross-functionally in a matrixed marketing environment, experience in property and casualty insurance is a plus
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and build structure where it doesn't yet exist