Social Media Manager, Residential Energy

Palo Alto, CA (On-site)

$72K/yr – $162K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale high-visibility social storytelling for Tesla Energy, turning product moments into daily platform content on X.com and beyond.

  • Growth & Ownership: Build the end-to-end social narrative from product signals to publishable assets across formats.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Align with product, creative, comms, and field teams plus Certified Installers to surface stories that land while upholding brand guidelines.
  • Platform & Performance: Lead listening, trend spotting, and rapid content iteration with clear leadership-ready learnings.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and produce compelling social content showcasing Tesla Energy products, customers, innovations, and milestones, including original short-form video, graphics, threads, and real-time reactive content
  • Translate product announcements, feature launches, company news, and competitive moments into timely, high-impact social content
  • Source and curate user-generated content, customer stories, and real-world product performance that resonates authentically
  • Own the Tesla Energy social content calendar and posting cadence on X.com, balancing proactive storytelling with announcement-driven content and adapting for additional platforms as the program scales
  • Collaborate with internal teams (product, creative, comms, engineering, regional) and external partners including Certified Installers to surface stories worth amplifying, ensuring all content meets Tesla's corporate guidelines and brand standards
  • Build and maintain social listening practices, stay ahead of platform trends and emerging formats, and proactively pitch new content ideas and campaigns to leadership
  • Shepherd content through internal approval workflows, establish scalable production processes, track performance, and report learnings to leadership with clarity

Requirements

  • 5+ years managing social media for a brand with high public visibility, ideally at a product-led or design-forward company
  • Platform-native expertise on X.com with strong instincts for what performs and why
  • Content creation skills: sharp copy, designer briefs, video storyboards, or shooting compelling content on your phone
  • Strong editorial judgment. You know which stories matter, when to post, and when to hold back
  • Ability to move fast without sacrificing quality or brand integrity
  • Genuine interest in energy, sustainability, or Tesla's mission
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills with comfort operating in ambiguous environments, navigating approvals with patience, and evolving programs as they grow

    Benefits

    • Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
    • Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
    • Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
    • Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
    • Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
    • 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
    • Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
    • Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
    • Employee Assistance Program
    • Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
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    Tesla

    3.5 Glassdoor

    Tesla is accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable abundance. To achieve our mission, we're building a world powered by solar, enabled by battery storage and transported by electric vehicles. We’re committed to hiring and developing top talent from around the world for any given discipline. Headquartered in Texas, we operate six huge, vertically integrated factories across three continents. With over 100,000 employees, our teams take a first-principles approach to designing, building, selling and servicing our products in-house. Our world-class teams operate with a non-conventional philosophy of inter-disciplinary collaboration. Each member of the team is expected to challenge and to be challenged, to create, and to innovate. We’re tackling the world’s most difficult and important problems—and we wouldn’t succeed without our shared passion for making the world a better place.

    Founded in 2003
    Austin, Texas, USA
    79K employees (5,337 in marketing)
    56% recommend to a friend
    57% CEO approval

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    23.5M
    Monthly Google Ads Budget
    $1.1M
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    47.5%
    Direct
    46%
    Referral
    4.2%
    Social
    1.6%
    Paid
    0.6%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~79.5K

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    4,261 (5% of company)
    Median Career Experience
    11 years
    Median Tenure
    6.5 years
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    11

    Funding

    Total Funding
    $20.1B
    Last Raise
    $783M
    Post IPO Debt, 1 years ago

    Funding History

    • Oct 2024
      Post IPO Debt • $783M
    • Sep 2023
      Grant • $159.6M
    • Aug 2023
      Grant • $231.8K

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