Social Media & Content Specialist

USA (Remote)

$75K/yr – $90K/yrMid LevelSalaried Ft

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own organic social and community for the auction business from content planning to live engagement, with channel voice and KPI discipline across owned platforms.

  • Own community voice and distinct purposes for each channel to reduce funnel drop-offs from discovery to auction.
  • Plan, publish, and optimize video and static content; drive live auction promotion to bidders and watchers.
  • Set channel KPIs and prove impact through engagement, follower growth, and auction participation.

Job Description

Responsibilities - Own every organic channel for the auction business: Instagram, Threads, X, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube - Reddit and old-school auto forums (Audi-World, Bimmerforums, and similar) - The C&B Community - Top-of-funnel promotional emails (events, offers, content drops). - Day to day: - Plan and publish the organic social content calendar across every channel above - Build, shoot, edit, and post video and static creative yourself - Monitor engagement and community sentiment, and jump into threads where it matters - Promote live auctions organically to drive bidders, watchers, and comments alongside submissions - Draft top-of-funnel promotional emails - The bigger picture, first 6-12 months: - Be the community voice in helping guide the strategy for each channel, including framing the distinct voices, distinct purposes that we use for each platform - Discover how social can help prevent funnel drop-offs between discovery, submission, and auction going live and close those gaps - Set channel-level KPIs and hit them - We\'ll know it\'s working through engagement, follower count, auction participation and marketplace growth. Requirements - You already live in car culture. If you haven\'t worked in automotive social before, we need to see you\'re deep in car Reddit, car TikTok, or forums on your own time. We want you to speak the language already. - 2-4 years creating and publishing social content, ideally somewhere that lives and dies by engagement - Deep understanding of social metrics, analytics, and how they tie back to business performance - You\'re comfortable and familiar with native social video — phone-shot, scrappy, built for the feed. You can also build your own static creative. No handoffs. - Experience running email and social together to boost engagement Nice to Have - Professional video production background - Automotive industry experience - Sprout Social experience or similar - A background in social listening
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Cars & Bids

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Cars & Bids is the best online auction marketplace to buy and sell modern enthusiast cars – and that means pretty much anything that’s cool from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, or 2020s. To us, “cool” ranges from the obvious (a Ferrari F355 or a Lamborghini Gallardo) to the esoteric (a pristine Dodge Dakota Convertible or a Mercury Capri XR2) to the traditional fun cars that enthusiasts love (a Mazda MX-5 Miata or a Porsche 911). Basically, everything that’s exciting, fun, interesting, or quirky is welcome here!

Founded in 2019
San Diego, California, USA
156 employees (19 in marketing)
100% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.8M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$22.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.1%
Direct
60.4%
Referral
4.2%
Social
3%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~156

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (8% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$37M
Last Raise
$37M
Series A, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2023
    Series A • $37M