Senior Social Media Content Specialist

Dallas, TX (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $128K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own social content strategy and execution for GALLO across priority and emerging platforms, turning insights into engaging campaigns, real-time opportunities, and measurable brand growth.

  • Lead content direction from ideation to optimization across annual, campaign, and channel strategies
  • Define platform KPIs and translate analytics into actionable recommendations
  • Collaborate with Brand Marketing, Creative, PR, Compliance, Analytics, and agency partners

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Bring brands to life through social-first storytelling that builds meaningful consumer connections and drives business impact. As a Sr. Social Media Content Specialist for GALLO, you'll lead social content strategy across priority and emerging platforms, turning audience insights, cultural trends, and performance data into content strategies that fuel engagement, relevance, and brand growth.
  • In this role, you'll shape content direction from ideation through optimization, developing annual, campaign, and channel strategies that balance planned programming with real-time opportunities.
  • You'll identify emerging trends, uncover whitespace opportunities, establish platform KPIs, and translate social listening and analytics into actionable recommendations that influence what comes next.
  • You'll serve as a Center of Excellence for social-first brand expression, helping define best practices across content strategy, tone of voice, community engagement, creator partnerships, and platform innovation.
  • Working closely with Brand Marketing, Creative, PR, Compliance, Analytics, and agency partners, you'll provide strategic guidance that elevates social media excellence across the organization.
  • Whether you're developing creator briefs, leading content capture, engaging communities in real time, guiding teams through cultural moments, or uncovering insights that shape future strategy, you'll help our brands stay connected to culture while delivering measurable results.
  • If you're a strategic thinker with a creator mindset, passionate about digital culture, consumer connection, and building social-first brands, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact across one of the industry's most dynamic portfolios.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years of social media marketing, content strategy, content marketing and/or digital marketing experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of Gallo digital marketing, sales, marketing, advertising, public relations or account management experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility and 2 years of social media marketing, content marketing, content strategy and/or digital marketing experience; OR High School diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 8 years of social media marketing, content strategy, content marketing and/or digital marketing experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
  • Required to travel up to 25% of the time in order to conduct job duties.
  • Proven experience in growing and engaging social media audiences.
  • Experience in content creation in a marketing setting.
  • Experience with UGC/EGC/CGC including filming, editing and being on camera.
  • Demonstrated experience working with video editing platforms such as CapCut, Edits, Canva, InShot, and Adobe Premiere Pro.
  • Required to remain up to date with social media trends and what is successful and trending on social platforms.
  • Experience in social media metrics and monitoring tools (I.e. Emplifi or Sprout Social).
  • Proven ability to be a creative and innovative thinker, including excellence in concepting & copywriting.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of social media marketing, content strategy, content marketing and/or digital marketing experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 6 years of Gallo digital marketing, sales, marketing, advertising, public relations or account management experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility and 5 years of social media marketing, content strategy, content marketing and/or digital marketing experience.
  • 4 years of content creation experience in social media.
  • Experience in creating original and repurposed content.
  • Experience managing external agency or freelance creators.
  • Ability to identify emerging trends and make recommendations for new opportunities.
  • Demonstrated ability to think strategically as well as tactically.
  • Experience in setup and analysis of social media and other digital analytics.
  • Experience working with other owned digital channels and with the role of digital paid media.

Benefits

  • We are committed to providing competitive compensation, perks, and a culture that supports your well-being. Benefits depend on your work category and may include medical and dental coverage, 401k plans, profit sharing, pet insurance, company holidays, access to an employee wine shop, and more! Additional information will be provided before your first interview.
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GALLO

We're proud to be home to the top wine and spirits brands in the U.S., including High Noon and Barefoot Wine. We serve as the official wine and vodka sponsors for the NFL, NHL, UFC, and PGA of America. Our commitment to our people, products, and customers is unwavering and evident in everything we do.Gallo Careers | Our Brands. Your Future.

Founded in 1933
Modesto, California, USA
5.4K employees (494 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
50.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36%
Direct
53.8%
Referral
6.8%
Social
2%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
394 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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