Manager, Social

Irvine, CA (Hybrid)

$138K/yr – $152K/yrManager8+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end social community engine for a marquee brand, aligning fans, creators and reactive moments while mentoring teams and agency partners to scale impact.

  • Growth/Ownership: Lead the community strategy and north star, govern 1:1 care, and drive cross-functional collaboration with agencies and internal teams.
  • Measurement & Insights: Shape reporting, data-driven insights, and KPI playbooks to keep social programs accountable and learn fast.
  • Capability & Culture: Develop leaders on the social team, maintain experimentation tempo, and stay fluent in the social landscape to influence across the org.

Job Description

Own Taco Bell’s social community strategy end to end, balancing fan, creator and reactive work while guiding a team and agency partners to scale impact.

  • Responsibilities: Lead and develop community strategy across fan, creator and reactive, setting the north star and empowering the team to execute against it
  • Oversee creator community strategy, agency and internal team bringing the work to life
  • Craft + oversee team executing 1:1 community management + care strategy
  • Extend community audience through leading execution of real-time, evergreen and off-calendar social moments and content
  • Coach and mentor a portion of the broader social strategy team acting as a true leader and coach
  • Shape and share actionable reporting + insights across community and campaigns
  • Be forward-thinking—maintain a steady level of experimentation on the brand's social accounts
  • Fluency in the social landscape to influence, manage and inspire internal teams and agency partners under tight deadlines
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Taco Bell

Taco Bell was born and raised in California and has been around since 1962. We went from selling everyone’s favorite Crunchy Tacos on the West Coast to a global brand with 8,200+ restaurants, 350 franchise organizations, that serve 42+ million fans each week around the globe. We’re not only the largest Mexican-inspired quick service brand (QSR) in the world, we’re also part of the biggest restaurant group in the world: Yum! Brands. Much of our fan love and authentic connection with our communities are rooted in being rebels with a cause. From ensuring we use high quality, sustainable ingredients to elevating restaurant technology in ways that hasn’t been done before… we will continue to be inclusive, bold, challenge the status quo and push industry boundaries. We’re a company that celebrates and advocates for different, has bold self-expression, strives for a better future, and brings the fun while we’re at it. We fuel our culture with real people who bring unique experiences. We inspire and enable our teams and the world to Live Más. At Taco Bell, we’re Cultural Rebels.

Founded in 1962
Irvine, CA, US
76K employees (1,009 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
9.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$298.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
61.5%
Direct
33.1%
Referral
3.6%
Social
0.6%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~82.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
352 (0% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
3.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$13.7M
Last Raise
$13.7M
Series A, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2022
    Series A
  • Nov 2006
    Debt Financing • $13.7M

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