Director, Social Media

West Hollywood, CA (Hybrid)

$135K/yr – $145K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead Hourglass social strategy across platforms, shaping identity, content, and creator commerce while aligning with luxury positioning and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Own the organic social strategy and team leadership
  • Align social with luxury branding and creator opportunities

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the organic social strategy across all platforms
  • Define and continually evolve the Hourglass social identity to ensure the brand remains culturally relevant, modern, and aspirational
  • Develop channel strategies that strengthen brand awareness, engagement, and community growth
  • Partner closely with Creative to build scalable content creation models that deliver premium, social-first assets
  • Develop and own long-term social content strategy, partner with Social Art Director to brief and create content for owned social channels
  • Influence campaign development to ensure social needs are integrated from concept through execution
  • Lead editorial planning, publishing, community management, and channel optimization
  • Own the global affiliate marketing strategy and identify opportunities to expand creator commerce while protecting the luxury positioning of the brand
  • Identify emerging technologies, platforms, and content innovations that keep Hourglass at the forefront of luxury social marketing
  • Lead and develop the social & affiliate team while partnering closely with Regional Brand Marketing, Influencer, PR, Creative, and Global Marketing

Requirements

  • Minimum 8 years of social media experience, preferably within prestige or luxury beauty
  • Experience owning organic social strategy and leading a team at scale
  • Experience building affiliate or creator commerce programs
  • Strong editorial and content judgment for a luxury audience
  • Proven cross-functional partnership with Creative, PR, and Influencer teams

Preferred

  • YOU’RE A STORYTELLER with a sharp eye for what belongs on a luxury brand’s feed
  • YOU’RE COMMERCIALLY MINDED and connect content and community to business results
  • YOU’RE A strong LEADER who builds and develops high-performing teams
  • YOU HAVE TASTE : you know restraint drives desirability more than volume

Benefits

  • In addition to base salary, Hourglass Cosmetics offers a competitive benefits package to eligible employees, including medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, disability insurance, retirement savings plans and company match, paid family leave, education-related programs, paid holidays, discretionary vacation time, and more.
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Hourglass Cosmetics

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Hourglass Cosmetics is a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand, redefining luxury cosmetics with high-performance products, innovative formulas, and award-winning franchises. Recognized by Forbes, Fast Company and Time Magazine as one of the most inventive beauty companies, Hourglass leads the industry with its breakthrough products and its commitment to animal welfare. Founded in 2004, Hourglass is globally available in 32 markets and nearly 3,000 doors including Sephora, Ulta, Neiman Marcus, Selfridges, Space NK and more. Hourglass became part of the Unilever Prestige division in 2017. Discover more about the Hourglass brand story and mission on our website hourglasscosmetics.com.Hourglass Cosmetics will never request any form of payment or credit card details as part of the hiring process. We encourage prospective candidates to remain vigilant regarding fraudulent employment scams. Please be advised that any official communication from Hourglass Cosmetics regarding career opportunities will always originate from an email address ending in @hourglasscosmetics.com. Hourglass may occasionally partner with reputable external agencies for recruitment purposes. Should you encounter any suspicious emails or individuals claiming to represent Hourglass recruiters or senior staff members, please disregard the message and report any concerns to careers@hourglasscosmetics.com or cs@hourglasscosmetics.com.

Founded in 2004
West Hollywood, California, USA
426 employees (102 in marketing)
39% recommend to a friend
56% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
475.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40%
Direct
48.5%
Referral
5%
Social
5.5%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~426

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
59 (14% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
3.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

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