Social Media Content Manager

Danville, VA (Hybrid)

$95K/yr – $120K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own AeroFarms\' social strategy and channel execution, from audience insights and content planning to paid campaigns, agency management, and performance reporting.

  • Lead organic strategy and channel mix to maximize impact
  • Drive paid social planning, budgeting, and optimization to ROAS/CPA
  • Oversee external agency relationships and influencer/UGC programs

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build AeroFarms' social presence from an early stage: assess our audiences and platform options, and recommend which channels to prioritize (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest)
  • Define the organic strategy, content approach, and success metrics for each selected channel, and revisit channel mix as results come in
  • Build and manage a monthly content calendar tied to product launches, retail promotions, and seasonal moments
  • Direct content creation from brief to publish: concepts, shoot planning, copy, review, and approvals
  • Capture farm and product content on-site in Danville, VA, working with operations to schedule shoots
  • Maintain brand voice and visual standards across all social channels
  • Plan, launch, and optimize paid social campaigns on.. paid channels
  • Set targets and manage to KPIs such as ROAS, CPA, CTR, and conversion rate
  • Run structured creative testing (hooks, formats, audiences) and scale what works
  • Manage paid social budget, pacing, and monthly spend reporting

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years in social media marketing, with at least 2 years owning a brand's social channels
  • Hands-on performance marketing experience: managing paid social budgets and optimizing to ROAS/CPA in Meta Ads Manager and TikTok Ads
  • Proven experience directing an external social media or creative agency, including briefing, approvals, and holding it to performance targets
  • Track record of managing content creation end to end, from concept and production to publishing
  • Strong analytical skills; comfortable building reports and making spend and content decisions from data
  • Excellent writing and editing skills, with a sharp eye for visual quality
  • Working knowledge of social scheduling and analytics tools (e.g., Sprout Social, Later, Hootsuite)
  • Ability to travel to our Danville, VA farm periodically for content capture
  • Experience in CPG, food and beverage, or grocery, ideally with retail partners

Benefits

  • Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO
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AeroFarms

3.5 Glassdoor

At AeroFarms, we grow the best tasting microgreens through our innovative indoor farms and aeroponic technology. Our team of plant scientists, nutritionists, and culinary experts select the most flavorful varietals of microgreens and perfect them in our award-winning sustainable vertical farms to bring you. Our FlavorSpectrumTM of microgreens was designed to represent the breadth of flavors and varieties grown inside our indoor vertical farms. We paired each color with a specific tasting note to bring our FlavorSpectrumTM philosophy to life. Across our leafy greens packaging line, you'll find that the cool blue colors represent the sweet and mellow notes, while the intense reds represent bold and zesty flavors. We invite you to take our FlavorSpectrumTM journey and taste our difference. As a Certified B Corporation, AeroFarms uses the latest breakthroughs in indoor vertical farming, artificial intelligence and plant biology to fix our broken food system and improve the way fresh produce is grown and distributed locally and globally. We have built a proprietary agriculture platform to grow a wide array of products, delivering superior flavor, better quality and improved nutrition with the most sophisticated levels of traceability and food safety in our industry. The unique way we grow indoors creates the perfect conditions for healthy plants to thrive, allowing us to deliver the highest quality produce to our customers all year round, while using up to 95% less water, 99% less land, 390X more productivity and zero pesticides compared to traditional field farming.

Founded in 2004
Danville, Virginia, USA
135 employees (3 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
0% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$95K/yr – $120K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Social Media median pay in the United States

$78K/yr

Most pay falls between $65K and $100K. Based on 4,387 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
0.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$313.7M
Last Raise
$5M
Series Unknown

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Series Unknown
  • Apr 2024
    Series Unknown • $5M
  • Sep 2023
    Undisclosed • $70.8M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$71
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.2%
Direct
29.9%
Referral
6.9%
Social
7.4%
Paid
10.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~135
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Social Media Content Manager

AeroFarms · Danville, VA · Hybrid