Freelance Social Media Strategist

UK (Remote)

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Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own multi-brand social strategy by turning audience insights and platform trends into measurable content plans that drive engagement, reach, and conversions.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build strategic content roadmaps aligned with business goals and client objectives.
  • Content Engine: Develop clear content pillars, messaging frameworks, and audience personas to guide creation.
  • Audience & Competitive Intelligence: Identify opportunities via competitor analysis, audience research, and social listening.

Job Description

Own multi-brand social strategy by turning audience insights and platform trends into measurable content plans that drive engagement, reach, and conversions.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build strategic content roadmaps aligned with business goals and client objectives.
  • Content Engine: Develop clear content pillars, messaging frameworks, and audience personas to guide creation.
  • Audience & Competitive Intelligence: Identify opportunities via competitor analysis, audience research, and social listening.
  • Performance & Optimization: Analyse platform trends, emerging formats, and content performance to inform iterations.
  • Strategic Direction: Review existing content plans and provide actionable recommendations to improve impact.
  • Brand & Commercial Alignment: Ensure content stays on-brand, relevant, modern, and commercially effective.
  • Content Improvement: Identify opportunities to boost performance through creative optimization.
  • Client Collaboration: Support account managers with strategic direction and client recommendations.
  • Measurement & Reporting: Monitor content performance against KPIs and deliver insights using analytics tools.
  • Industry Vigilance: Stay ahead of algorithm updates, platform developments, and industry trends.

Requirements

  • Proven experience developing social media strategies for multiple brands or clients
  • Strong understanding of Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube content ecosystems
  • Experience creating audience-first content strategies that drive measurable results
  • Excellent understanding of content performance metrics including Engagement Rate, Reach, Impressions, Share Rate, Watch Time, Retention, Click-Through Rate and Conversion Metrics
  • Strong commercial awareness and ability to align social activity with business objectives
  • Experience managing multiple clients simultaneously
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to confidently justify strategic recommendations using data and insights

Preferred

  • Agency experience
  • Personal brand strategy experience
  • B2B and B2C experience
  • Experience working alongside paid media teams
  • Understanding of social-first creative frameworks and content production workflows
  • Familiarity with GA4 and wider digital marketing channels
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Empire X

Empire X is a social media content agency helmed by TikTok creator Matt Welland and Multi Agency founder Josh Packham. They boast a unique take on content, marketing and creative for clients such as: Bling King, Loved ones forever, WAI, Universal Records, Ash Dykes, Sophia Rose, Netflix & Many More. Offering video content creation, social management, media buying, digital marketing and consulting for top brands, businesses and creators.

Founded in 2023
Petworth, England, GBR
10 employees (3 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
912
Traffic Source Mix
Search
51.3%
Direct
37.7%
Referral
6%
Social
4%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (20% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1