The Ride Platform - Senior Manager, Social Media & Influencer

Austin, TX (On-site)

$115K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end social for two brands by building platform-native video, defining voice, scaling a creator program, and running AI-assisted publishing and listening to drive engagement.

  • Platform & Channel Ownership: launch and optimize Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Pinterest with a unified content calendar.
  • Creator Partnerships: source, brief, negotiate rights, tiered programs, and long-term relationships.
  • AI-Driven Ops: apply AI for ideation, scheduling, sentiment monitoring, and creator vetting to speed throughput and improve quality.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Ideate, shoot, and edit platform-native short-form video and content yourself.
  • Lead day-to-day operations of organic channels (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest) for Outdoorsy and Ride.
  • Define platform-specific strategies, pillars, and voice; stand up channels from zero for Ride; optimize content for GEO/AEO discovery.
  • Own end-to-end calendar development, scheduling, and publishing across all platforms and both brands.
  • Steward Outdoorsy's social voice; codify Ride's social voice from scratch in partnership with the brand team.
  • Monitor trends and conduct competitive analysis; translate cultural moments into timely activations.
  • Own inbound engagement across both brands; establish response standards and use AI tooling to scale.
  • Build and evolve a scalable creator program with clear tiers, workflows, and usage rights; source, brief, contract, review, and usage rights management.
  • Negotiate partnerships, manage external creators and vendors, and ensure integration with paid media and brand campaigns.
  • Build an AI-augmented workflow for content, scheduling, social listening, sentiment, and creator vetting.

Requirements

  • 6–8+ years in social media and/or creator/influencer marketing, with meaningful time owning channels and programs end-to-end.
  • Maker first: ability to ideate, shoot, and edit short-form video yourself.
  • Track record of growing social channels and launching new ones from scratch.
  • Deep fluency in the creator economy: how to evaluate and tier creators, structure partnerships, negotiate scopes and usage rights, and build relationships that last.
  • Strong editorial and creative instincts — you care about the quality of the content, not just the dashboard behind it.
  • Equally comfortable with brand strategy and performance data; ability to write a creative brief and present a channel report in the same meeting, and explain what social impact means to the business.
  • Hands-on and AI-fluent — you use AI tools daily to increase throughput, sharpen analysis, and fuel creative experimentation, and you bring proactive recommendations to the team.
  • Player-coach: comfortable setting strategy and rolling up your sleeves to ship the work on a lean team.
  • Clear, confident communicator with senior stakeholders.

Preferred

  • Genuine affinity for the outdoor, RV, auto, or travel space is a strong plus.
  • Hands-on and AI-fluent — you use AI tools daily to increase throughput, sharpen analysis, and fuel creative experimentation.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Benefits: 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees, 401(k) match, and Flexible PTO.
  • Vibrant Culture: Catered lunches, happy hours, and team-building events.
  • Work-Life Balance: We offer marketplace discounts and maintain a culture that values the balance between work and adventure.
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The Ride Platform

The Ride Platform is building the infrastructure for the mobility economy. Our four lines of business provide the full stack — marketplaces, fleet management SaaS, and specialized insurance — that turns vehicles into profitable businesses. ***Outdoorsy is the world’s most trusted, high quality RV travel and accommodations marketplace that includes our owned and operated destinations.Ride is the professional car rental marketplace built for high-volume fleet operators ready to capitalize on the future of autonomous travel.Roamly is the leading AI-first specialty insurance provider purpose-built for modern mobility marketplaces, from carsharing to connected fleets.Wheelbase is the SaaS operating system for auto and RV fleets that gives operators control over pricing, utilization, and embedded insurance.***We exist to unlock what's possible for entrepreneurs in the mobility economy.

Founded in 2015
Austin, Texas, USA
288 employees (31 in marketing)

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~288

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Marketing Team Size
21 (7% of company)
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