Associate Director, Social Media

Watertown, MA (On-site)

$135K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own social narrative and content architecture for a consumer brand, turning a platform into a native content engine and creator-led vehicle that fuels brand awareness and cultural relevance.

  • Platform-native strategy: Own the calendar and platform-specific concepts across TikTok, Instagram, and short-form video to build a consistent brand presence.
  • Content system and creator partnerships: Translate the brand platform into repeatable formats, series, and creator briefs that feel credible, not overly produced.

Job Description

Own social strategy and content architecture for ButcherBox across platforms, turning brand platform into repeatable, native content and creator-driven moments that drive awareness, affinity, and brand presence.

  • Lead the organic social strategy across key platforms, making social one of the clearest and most ownable expressions of the ButcherBox brand.
  • Translate the brand platform into repeatable content ideas, social behaviors, series, formats, and moments that build awareness, affinity, and relevance.
  • Define the role of each platform and build a content mix that balances entertainment, education, product storytelling, cultural moments, community, and brand POV.
  • Bring a strong perspective on what ButcherBox should sound like, look like, and behave like on social.
  • Help move ButcherBox from a brand that posts content to a brand that has a recognizable presence.
  • Concept and lead social-first content ideas, campaigns, recurring series, and formats that feel native to the platform and distinct to the brand.
  • Develop content across short-form video, creator-led storytelling, man-on-the-street, behind-the-scenes, founder/customer storytelling, interviews, product moments, cultural commentary, and unexpected formats.
  • Build systems that ensure brand moments, shoots, events, partnerships, founder moments, and IRL activations are captured and extended through social in a smart, scrappy, high-impact way.
  • Know the difference between content that fills a feed and content that builds a brand.
  • Identify opportunities to bring ButcherBox into the cultural conversation in ways that feel timely, useful, entertaining, and true to the brand.
  • 7+ years of experience in social, content, influencer, or brand marketing, with meaningful in-house experience at a consumer brand
  • Experience helping build, grow, or evolve a brand’s social presence in a way that created noticeable momentum
  • A track record of social work that drove growth, conversation, engagement, cultural relevance, or brand affinity
  • Examples of content, formats, series, creator work, or social moments that performed, spread, earned attention, or became recognizable for a brand
  • Deep understanding of TikTok, Instagram, creator-led content, platform behavior, internet culture, and how social drives both brand love and business impact
  • Experience translating a brand platform or creative idea into social-first content, series, formats, campaigns, and community behaviors
  • Strong creative instincts and the ability to concept ideas that feel fresh, ownable, and executable
  • Experience working with creators and developing content that feels native, not overly produced or overly branded
  • Comfort getting hands-on. This person can write a brief, shape a hook, direct a creator, weigh in on an edit, capture content, and help bring an idea to life
  • Highly organized, proactive, and able to manage multiple workstreams without losing the creative thread
  • Health: medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, an employer-funded HSA, and short & long-term disability benefits
  • Financial: 401(k) with generous employer match
  • Annual bonus based on company performance
  • Time off: unlimited paid time off policy, 20 weeks parental leave, an executive team that encourages a good work/life balance
  • Personal growth: Annual Learning & Development stipend, and access to a range of personal and professional coaching solutions through BetterUp
  • Food: a free Custom Classic ButcherBox each month and weekly lunch reimbursement
  • Others: reimbursement for wellness activities, an exceptional EAP, fertility benefits, life insurance and more
  • Base Salary: $135,000.00 - $170,000.00
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By delivering humanely-raised meat and sustainably-harvested seafood directly to consumers’ doors, ButcherBox presents an altogether for our customers better way to experience food. As the only B Corp Certified meat and seafood company to source exclusively from partners with 3rd party animal welfare certification, we’re here to transform meat by doing right by the animals, the planet, farmers, workers and our members.

Founded in 2015
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