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This role will serve as the day-to-day strategy lead, working with a cross-department team to develop world-class social presences for a highly visible brand.\nThe ideal candidate…\nis curious, confident, and creative, always asking questions and seeking better answers\nhas proven experience working with top tier brands and leaders in crafting creative, social-first strategies that drive measurable results\nwants to be in the room (and is comfortable) with senior clients\nloves a fast paced environment - cross-functional collaboration will be key\nRequirements\nThis is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week in office required. You must reside in one of our US office locations: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Miami.\n5-7+ years’ experience in social media, with an emphasis on organic and paid social management, brand management, influencer or experience marketing.\nExperience with global consumer product and technology brands is a plus.\nSpecific experience in organic social campaigns and programs that create engagement.\nDeep knowledge of development of content forms, including video, text, still imagery, animation, live action and other content forms that best utilize technology available across social media/digital platforms.\nComfortable incorporating a range of AI tools and products into workflows and curious about new and continued AI integration\nExperience leading the planning and management of campaign executions, including developing, evaluating, and implementing innovative ideas.\nExtensive familiarity and past experience with project-based client work.\nAbility to articulate with strong presentation skills and to contribute to executive-level discourse; excellent written communication abilities.\nDemonstrated strength in problem solving and analytics and capable of driving insight to action.\nStrong client focus and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadline constraints. \nResponsibilities\nEnd-to-end development of comprehensive social messaging and creative strategies that incorporate audience preferences, platform best practices, and brand goals\nWriting, in collaboration with account and creative leads, program, campaign, and creative briefs \nLeveraging our suite of tools (with focus on how to best leverage AI to increase efficiencies) to facilitate timely insights gathering and development of briefs \nWorking closely with cross-functional teams (particularly insights, creative, community and creator relationships teams) to develop and deliver 360 strategies\nBeing (and staying) well-versed in social-first excellence and keeping the team abreast of trends and changes within the landscape\nIdentification of cultural trends / shifts / moments that are relevant to our work and with regular sharing to internal teams and client \nBe the source of truth in tracking execution of strategies to ensure we're delivering on the strategy and meeting our goals \nProvide strategic insights and POVs to clients \nEstablishing and fostering relationships with clients and building trust in our strategic POV and guidance \nIdentify opportunities within assigned engagements for incremental project work as well as broader services opportunities and develop client proposals to push these forward\nBenefits\nMedical, dental, vision, and more!\nGenerous time-off package available day one!\n401k & Roth retirement investment options with employer match after one year\nGym and professional development stipends\nCulture Club with monthly activities like sports, games and happy hours\nDEI Council and Employee Resource Groups\nCommute and parking benefits\nWellness program that focuses on mental, physical and financial employee wellness\nAnd much more!\nSALARY RANGE\n$114,000 - $146,000 annual salary\nABOUT 1000HEADS\n1000heads combines expertise in data & analytics, strategy, technology and creativity to help the world’s best businesses build Social Age brands. 1000heads provides a fully integrated, end-to-end Social Transformation™ proposition to blue-chip clients encompassing data & analytics, strategy and implementation. 1000heads has a global footprint, employing over 200 people across 12 offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Bogota, Sydney, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Japan, Paris and Berlin. 1000heads’ clients have included Alphabet, Keurig, The North Face, San Pellegrino, Amazon, Cisco, and Diageo.\n1000heads is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we are passionately committed to working together to promote an inclusive environment which celebrates and promotes diversity. We are committed to our belief that diversity in our team generates better and bolder ideas, creativity, understanding and respect. 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