Social Strategist

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$75K/yr – $80K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the culture-driven social content engine by turning daily trend insights into briefs, audience insights, and creative strategies that move performance across channels.

  • Trend-to-Strategy: Translate evolving social culture, commerce, and tech trends into actionable content approaches and briefs.
  • Collaboration & Briefing: Partner with clients, creators, and internal teams to shape modes of content and points of view likely to win on social.
  • Content Performance: Monitor daily results, extract insights, and optimize for key metrics through social listening, audience building, and engagement analysis.

Job Description

Staying up to date and obsessing over emerging trends in social media, culture, commerce, entertainment, politics, and technology to inform your work Proactively researching to support teams with briefs and strategies Consulting with our clients, creative teams, influencers and creators on the modes of content that best align with what people are seeking out on social media and crafting points of view on the type of content that is likely to succeed Developing campaign specific and evergreen content strategies that connect with culture and deliver on performance objectives – translating them to an actionable brief Staying ahead of trends, platform best practice and changes in consumer behavior Tracking and monitoring content performance daily and finding insights and optimizations that strengthen key metrics; social listening, audience building, and engagement analysis will be key skills for this Auditing social data and reviewing marketing and commerce, media data to look for trends Authoring monthly and quarterly reports that help sell stronger creative to our clients and internal teams Assisting with defining communities, fandoms and affinities and converting them into audience insights Requirements Innovative Thinking Collaboration Mentorship Knowledge Sharing Accountability Consistency
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We build brands that move people and markets through the radical creativity of Truth Well ToldTM.We don’t make campaigns, we build brands. We don’t follow trends, we uncover enduring human truths. That has been the promise of Truth Well Told since our founding in 1912 – a promise we renew every day as an iconic brand that builds the world’s most iconic brands through finding the truth and telling it well.Truth Well Told unites our 10,000+ people across 100+ countries, as does our commitment to Conscious Inclusion, which upholds the highest standards of bravery, integrity and generosity. Named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2025 and 2024, McCann was the most awarded agency at Cannes Lions 2023 and ranked Most Effective Agency Network by the Global Effie Index 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.

Founded in 1902
New York, New York, USA
370 employees (156 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.7%
Direct
55.2%
Referral
5.5%
Social
9.4%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~373

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
62 (17% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
6.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

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