Senior Social & Content Marketing Manager

London, UK (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Description

Department: Marketing
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-Time
Reporting To: Head of Marketing

About the role

This is not a traditional social media role. You will own the intersection of social strategy, content marketing, and AI-enabled production — building a system that creates demand, deepens trust, and grows Nexford's presence across global markets. Senior IC with strategic ownership and a clear path into people management.

What you'll do:


Social-led growth strategy

  • Own Nexford's global social strategy: audience, channel role, content pillars, cadence, and success metrics by market.
  • Partner with Growth, Brand, Product Marketing, and Leadership to connect social directly to business priorities.

Content and narrative

  • Develop content concepts, campaigns, and recurring series that give Nexford a clear market POV.
  • Write and edit across formats — short-form video, thought leadership, founder content, newsletters, and campaign extensions.

Brand affinity and community

  • Create content that earns saves, shares, and genuine conversation — not just reach.
  • Activate advocates, creators, alumni, learners, and internal experts who can amplify Nexford credibly.

AI-enabled content operations

  • Use AI tools (Claude, Perplexity, OpusClip, Descript, Runway, Midjourney) to accelerate research, ideation, repurposing, and reporting.
  • Build reusable prompts and workflows for the wider team — while keeping a strong editorial layer so the brand voice never sounds generic.

Measurement

  • Define the KPIs that matter (engagement quality, saves, assisted conversion, sentiment) — not vanity metrics.
  • Run structured experiments and feed insights back into brand, demand gen, and sales enablement.

What you'll bring:

  • 5+ years in senior social or content marketing roles, with at least 2 years of strategic ownership.
  • Demonstrated experience building social strategies for B2C, edtech, SaaS, or mission-driven brands.
  • Strong writing and editorial instincts — you can spot a weak hook or "AI slop" immediately and fix it.
  • Hands-on with AI content tools — to go faster and sharper, not to replace judgment.
  • Comfort influencing across functions without direct authority.

Nice to have: experience in higher education or adult-learner audiences; building executive thought leadership; managing creators or UGC; familiarity with the modern content stack (HubSpot, GA4, Sprout, Canva).

Why Join Nexford

  • Own something that matters. This is not an execution-only role. You will set the strategy, build the systems, and shape how a global audience understands and trusts Nexford.
  • Global scope, meaningful mission. Nexford is a modern online university built to expand access to quality education across the world — your work will reach learners in dozens of countries.
  • AI-forward by design. Nexford encourages intelligent use of AI tools to move faster and produce better work. You will have the freedom to build modern content operations, not maintain legacy processes.
  • Senior IC with a growth path. This role comes with real strategic ownership today and a clear potential path into people management as the team scales.
  • Work with a cross-functional team that moves fast. You will collaborate closely with Growth, Brand, Product Marketing, and Leadership — not operate in a silo.

Nexford is committed to building an inclusive, diverse team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement listed above.

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Nexford University

Nexford University enables greater social and economic mobility across the world by providing learners with access to high-quality, affordable, dynamic education that prepares them for the global workplace. We offer a next-generation, fully online learning experience that will positively impact millions of lives around the world. NXU aims to demonstrate a more effective way of aligning credentials to the workforce--one that is far better positioned to give any learner, regardless of starting point, an educational foundation for lifelong success. We do this through curricular innovation, leadership in learning analytics and the development of models and tools that enable personalization and impact at scale. We are a cross-disciplinary team of relentlessly optimistic, ambitiously creative, solution-oriented problem solvers who collaborate to uncover and develop new scalable ways to enable our internal and external partners to consistently drive learner impact using the latest technologies and innovative practices available. Nexford University is an American university licensed by the Higher Education Licensure Commission in Washington DC and accredited by DEAC.

Founded in 2017
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
206 employees (20 in marketing)