Head of Social Media Strategy

Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $155K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own creative strategy and global execution across campaigns, ensuring consistent brand voice and scalable localisation, while aligning with cultural nuance.

  • Own creative strategy and global execution across campaigns, ensuring consistent brand voice and scalable localisation.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration with marketing, insights, PR, and media to tie output to business goals and audience needs.
  • Drive best in class content creation across photography, video, CGI, animation, and experiential formats with data driven learnings from Insights & Digital.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Spearhead and elevate the creative vision, strategy, and execution across global marketing campaigns, spanning AV, social, digital, experiential, and trade.
  • Drive innovative and modern creative solutions to amplify Moose’s toy brands, ensuring relevance and resonance across global markets.
  • Partner seamlessly with marketing, consumer insights, PR, and media teams to align creative output with business objectives and strategic intent.
  • Drive best-in-class execution in photography, video, CGI, animation, and experiential content — elevating visual storytelling across every channel.
  • Champion creative consistency across consumer-facing touchpoints, reinforcing a unified brand voice.
  • Possess deep understanding of digital content creation, leveraging platforms and audience insights to craft forward-thinking strategies.
  • Stay attuned to trends, platforms, and audience behaviours, shaping creative strategies that resonate across diverse audiences and contribute to cultural impact.
  • Partner with Insights & Digital to track content performance and feed learnings back into the creative process for continuous improvement.
  • Build scalable processes for localisation to adapt global creative for regional cultural nuances and languages.
  • Regularly review resourcing requirements for the department, recruits, interviews, selects and trains new staff.
  • Oversee the day-to-day workloads and performance of direct reports towards the achievement of agreed objectives, through the provision of clear direction, coaching and support.
  • Work with direct reports to set individual KPIs and conduct regular reviews in-line with the Moose Performance Management Program.
  • Manage the training and professional development of team members, with an emphasis on providing timely and constructive feedback on a regular basis; and
  • Champion the Moose culture to ensure direct reports deliver on “The Wow”.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in social media.
  • Proven track record of leading large-scale social media strategies for global brands.
  • Experience managing cross-functional teams.
  • Deep knowledge of major platforms (Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest).
  • Proficiency with social media management tools.
  • Ability to inspire creativity and innovation within teams.
  • Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
  • Ability to blend creativity with strategic thinking, translating brand goals into social strategies.
  • Experience working across multiple international markets, with a nuanced understanding of regional social media usage, cultural trends, and content consumption behaviors.
  • A visionary with a keen eye for content creation, editing, and storytelling.
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      Moose Toys

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      Moose Toys exists to make children happy. The team has innovation in their DNA and are famous for the design, development and manufacture of award winning toys that continue to disrupt the market. A certified Great Place to Work six times over, Moose Toys dominates in categories including collectables, craft, dolls, games and youth electronics and is consistently recognised as the most creative company in the industry. The family run business disrupted the toy industry with the global phenomenon Shopkins and through these pintsized characters, reinvigorated the way children play. The success of the company extends to the development of content, entertainment and global licensing deals. Moose calls Australia home and was named as #30 in the 2024 Best Workplaces in Australia - but is a global business with more than 750 employees around the world. Visit www.moosetoys.com for more information on our amazing brands and people.

      Founded in 1985
      Cheltenham, Victoria, AUS
      686 employees (248 in marketing)
      73% recommend to a friend
      85% CEO approval

      Traffic Signals

      Monthly Visitors
      199.3K
      Traffic Source Mix
      Search
      41.6%
      Direct
      46.4%
      Referral
      6.2%
      Social
      4.7%
      Paid
      1%

      Headcount Trend

      Current headcount: ~685

      Marketing Team

      Marketing Team Size
      108 (16% of company)
      Median Career Experience
      13 years
      Median Tenure
      4.5 years

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