Social Strategist

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$110K/yr – $140K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 23 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the development and delivery of social strategy for assigned brands, turning trends and data into actionable POVs and guiding cross‑discipline teams on content planning, briefs, and performance reporting.

  • Lead social strategy deliverables and advocate for platform-native, culturally relevant ideas across campaigns
  • Collaborate with creative, analytics, and client teams to shape briefs, reports, and strategic direction
  • Drive day-to-day guidance for social managers and present recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the development of social strategy deliverables across assigned brands and campaigns, with senior support where needed
  • Define platform roles, content opportunities, audience behaviors, and campaign recommendations
  • Translate trends, social listening, and performance data into actionable insights and POVs
  • Develop social-first briefs with clear insight, inspiration, and strategic direction
  • Partner with creative teams to ensure ideas are platform-native, culturally relevant, and strategically sound
  • Partner with analysts to use LLMs to develop automated social reports highlighting KPIs, benchmarks, and learnings and develop social reporting narratives with actionable takeaways and next steps
  • Contribute to integrated campaign planning across organic, paid, influencer, and earned social
  • Review social calendars, content plans, and campaign outputs to ensure work ladders back to strategy
  • Present strategic recommendations to clients and internal teams
  • Partner with and provide day-to-day direction to social marketing managers on content planning and priorities

Requirements

  • 3–5 years of experience at an agency or in-house in a social strategy, content strategy, or community management role
  • Strong understanding of social platforms, content formats, audience behaviors, creators, and emerging trends
  • Ability to identify cultural and platform opportunities and determine their relevance for brands
  • Ability to turn research, data, and social signals into clear strategic recommendations
  • Experience building or supporting social strategies for campaigns, always-on content, and channel-specific initiatives
  • Strong creative instincts and an understanding of what makes content feel social-first
  • Comfort reviewing performance data and pulling out key learnings, implications, and optimization opportunities — and turning that into an action-oriented report
  • Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills
  • Ability to collaborate across creative, media, analytics, account, influencer, production, and client teams
  • Confidence contributing to presentations, briefs, and strategic discussions

Benefits

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Stagwell

Stagwell is a challenger holding company built to transform marketing.

Founded in 2015
New York, New York, USA
11K employees (3,184 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$110K/yr – $140K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,678 (15% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$108M
Last Raise
$108M
Post IPO Secondary, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2023
    Post IPO Secondary • $108M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
69.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.3%
Direct
60.3%
Referral
5.6%
Social
1.1%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~11.3K

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