Manager, Channel Manager: Social Media

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$138K/yr – $189K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own channel strategy and end-to-end social storytelling across events, partnerships, and editorial programming, coordinating cross-functional teams to plan, publish, measure, and optimize performance.

  • Define platform plans, audience priorities, content pillars, and testing opportunities
  • Lead ideation, editing, and feedback on creative assets
  • Collaborate with event, talent, and partnership stakeholders on storytelling and approvals

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Overseen by the Channel Lead, develop and execute channel strategy, including defining platform plans, audience priorities, content pillars, and testing opportunities aligned with broader marketing objectives.
  • Lead ideation, shape hooks, pacing, sequencing, captions, and asset selection. Perform hands-on editing where appropriate and provide actionable feedback on more complex work.
  • Manage the calendar, balancing ongoing brand storytelling with events, member experiences, talent, partnerships, and timely cultural opportunities.
  • Work with event, talent, and partnership stakeholders on pre-event, live, and post-event storytelling. Coordinate social deliverables, asset access, usage permissions, and disclosures.
  • Schedule and publish through Sprinklr and native tools, conduct quality assurance, monitor engagement, and manage responses and escalations within established guidance.
  • Coordinate reviews, resolve feedback with relevant stakeholders, secure required sign-offs, and maintain approval records before publication.
  • Measure and improve performance by recommending KPIs, maintaining reporting, interpreting dashboards and native analytics, and turning findings into improvements to creative, programming, and publishing.
  • Participate as the Channel Manager in a collaborative cross-functional team (business partners, creatives, legal, compliance, etc.) and work with them to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery.
  • Champion the brand, ensuring that all representations of our products (claims, imagery, copy, etc.) are in line with voice and style guides.
  • Leverage problem solving and influencing skills to deliver on intent.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Military Experience
  • At least 5 years of experience within an agency or client side handling social media strategy, with experience managing social media channels

Preferred

  • Masters degree in marketing or business
  • 2+ years experience in luxury, hospitality, travel, lifestyle, membership, financial services, or another environment requiring strong editorial and reputational judgment
  • 6+ years experience supporting paid social campaigns, including creative development, optimization, reporting, and associated community management
  • 6+ years experience with enterprise workflow systems, and familiarity with content-management platforms
  • 6+ years experience coordinating agencies, production partners, or freelancers
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Capital One

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At Capital One, we're making things better for our customers and associates through innovation and collaboration. We were founded on the belief that everyone deserves financial freedom—and are dedicated to a world where all have equal opportunity to prosper. Banking is in our DNA, but we are so much more than a bank. We always think about what’s next—and how we can bring our customers the tools needed to improve their financial lives. Your ideas, experiences and skills will help make banking better. You’ll be part of a supportive culture while earning amazing benefits. That’s life at Capital One. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. View our Social Media Community Guidelines https://www.capitalone.com/digital/social-media/

Founded in 1994
McLean, Va, US
62K employees (2,158 in marketing)
67% recommend to a friend
80% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$138K/yr – $189K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($164K) is 102% above the median base salary for Social Media Manager roles in the United States ($81K).

Social Media Manager median pay in the United States

$83K/yr

Most pay falls between $70K and $98K. Based on 641 salaries.

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Funding

Total Funding
$5.5B
Last Raise
$2.8B
Post IPO Debt, 6 months ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $2.8B
  • Jan 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $1.8B
  • May 2023
    Post IPO Equity • $954M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
127.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$12.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
16.9%
Direct
77.4%
Referral
3.7%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~81.6K
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Manager, Channel Manager: Social Media

Capital One · New York City, NY · Hybrid