Global Head of Social Media, MD

Responsibilities

• Define and lead a business-aligned social media vision for the enterprise, grounded in strong storytelling and strategic rigor, and champion this vision across Marketing and the businesses to position social media as a core strategic capability.
• Own paid and owned channel strategy end to end, including creative innovation and audience development across existing and emerging platforms, ensuring the firm remains at the forefront of platform and format evolution.
• Partner with Brand, Communications, Content, and Digital teams to ensure social media amplifies and helps shape the firm's broader narrative.
• Build executive and employee advocacy programs that give our experts an authentic, credible voice with both audiences.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for social media operations and execution globally, across paid and owned channels, ensuring consistent standards, quality, and pace of delivery across every market and business line.
• Establish scalable global processes and ways of working that allow regional and business-aligned teams to execute efficiently while maintaining enterprise consistency.
• Ensure every business maintains a social presence calibrated to how its clients use the channel.
• Develop dedicated social media teams aligned to our core businesses, ensuring each team understands and executes seamlessly against the distinct clients, priorities, and rhythms of its business.
• Build a center of excellence with shared standards, tools, and best practices, delivered through teams embedded in and accountable to their respective businesses.
• Coach and develop talent, fostering a team culture that balances creative ambition with sound judgment and risk awareness.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in social media, with a track record as both a strategic leader and a skilled storyteller, able to articulate a vision while maintaining a strong eye for content quality.
• Significant experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry, with fluency in the regulatory and control environment.
• Demonstrated success owning both paid and owned social media strategy, with direct accountability for global operations and execution.
• Demonstrated success building and leading business-aligned or channel teams, ideally spanning both B2B/institutional and retail audiences.
• A track record of building or transforming a social media function, not solely managing an existing one.
• Strong command of social analytics, measurement frameworks, and social listening, with the ability to translate data into a clear point of view on impact.
• Experience guiding data and marketing technology strategy to improve channel efficiency and performance.
• Experience developing and managing financial influencer or external voice programs, including establishing vetting, disclosure, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience activating senior executives and subject matter experts as credible voices on social media.
• A collaborative leader with a track record of building trust across marketing, business, and compliance/controls stakeholders.

Benefits

• Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.