Social Media Manager

Irvine, CA (On-site)

$75K/yr – $90K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive social content strategy and production end-to-end, across platforms, with leadership in campaigns, real-time content, and stakeholder communication.

  • Own content calendar and toolkit development
  • Lead multi-format content creation and performance insights

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead social creative strategy; develop sophisticated and complex social media concepts that move beyond one-off tactics to sustainable campaigns, platforms, and activations
  • Evaluate content performance and develop/adjust communications strategy and future content
  • Develop, implement, and own a content calendar
  • Design and assemble social media toolkits for various campaigns and initiatives; develop and ensure implementation
  • Lead and execute daily and planned hands-on content creation, including graphic design, video editing/shooting, motion graphics, and animation for brand social channels across platforms including Instagram, LinkedIn, and beyond
  • Daily and planned content creation for brand social channels across platforms including Instagram, LinkedIn, and beyond, including concepts, content series, and repeatable templates
  • Inform and create content that speaks to key security trends and developments, ensuring optimal use of platform features and best practices
  • Lead art direction and copy crafting for comprehensive social campaigns, personally executing visual designs and ensuring consistent brand aesthetics and tone across all creative outputs
  • Create rapid response content in collaboration with strategy and creative teams as news, cultural moments, and trends emerge in real time
  • Support social listening and insights efforts, tracking security trends and developments in real time while balancing ongoing deliverables

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, advertising, media studies, digital marketing, graphic design, marketing, English, business or a related field
  • Minimum of 3 (three) years of creative experience in social media and content, including 3 (three) years in a mentorship role.
  • Proven ability to develop creative, earned-first social strategies that breakthrough
  • Exceptional skills in social art direction and copy craft, with a strong portfolio showcasing a diverse range of graphic design and video production work created for social media
  • Exceptional skills in social art direction and copy craft, with a strong portfolio showcasing a range of content types and platforms
  • Deep understanding of content formats, real-time trends, and creation best practices across core social channels
  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, AfterEffects, etc), and experience with hands-on content creation for brands, including basic and/or in-app editing tools (e.g., CapCut, Canva.)
  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud, and experience with hands-on content creation for brands, including basic and/or in-app editing tools (e.g., TikTok, CapCut)
  • Proficiency using Hootsuite or comparable social listening tools
  • Ability to efficiently turn a concept into a produced piece of content

Preferred

  • Public company experience
  • Experience with Hootsuite or comparable social listening tools
  • Experience with Adobe and/or Canva
  • Prior experience with reputation management and media relations

Benefits

  • Salary Range: $75,000 - $90,000
  • Medical, dental, vision, basic life, AD&D, retirement plan and disability insurance
  • Eight paid holidays annually, five sick days, and four personal days
  • Vacation time offered at an accrual rate of 3.08 hours biweekly; unused vacation is only paid out where required by law
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Allied Universal

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Allied Universal®, a leading security and facility services company, provides proactive security services and cutting-edge smart technology to deliver evolving, tailored solutions that allow clients to focus on their core business. Our excellence starts with our local leadership and local presence. In fact, in North America alone, we have an extensive network of offices to support our local communities and customers. We take pride in our extensive knowledge in a range of specialty sectors such as education, healthcare, retail, commercial real estate, government and corporate campuses, etc. We believe there is no greater purpose than serving and safeguarding customers, communities and people in today’s world. Allied Universal is There for you®.

Founded in 1957
Irvine, California, USA
99K employees (161 in marketing)
50% recommend to a friend
50% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$75K/yr – $90K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($83K) is in line with the median base salary for Social Media Manager roles in the United States ($81K).

Social Media Manager median pay in the United States

$83K/yr

Most pay falls between $70K and $98K. Based on 614 salaries.

See all Allied Universal salaries

Funding

Total Funding
$9B
Last Raise
$9B
Private Equity, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2019
    Private Equity • $9B
  • Feb 2019
    Private Equity

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$114
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.1%
Direct
56.5%
Referral
11.7%
Social
1.2%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~99.1K
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Social Media Manager

Allied Universal · Irvine, CA · On-site