Social Media Manager & Content Creator

Watsonville, CA (Hybrid)

$55K/yr – $75K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 10 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end short-form video program across primary channels, driving growing organic reach, and turning top content into paid tests while keeping marketing operations reliable.

  • Lead fast video production, editing, posting, and calendar ownership
  • Scale organic reach and funnel winning formats into paid campaigns
  • Ensure timely admin, reporting, and asset logistics

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Publish native short-form content (30%). Shoot, cut, and publish 5+ posts per week per priority channel across Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Daily capture around the building: product, behind the scenes, team, packing, seasonal moments. Zero dead weeks.
  • Feed the footage bank (20%). Deliver 15+ usable, tagged raw clips per week that our paid ads team can cut into ads.
  • Grow organic reach (20%). Keep each channel's reach and engagement trending up. Reply to comments and DMs in our voice, and route support questions to the right team same day.
  • Turn organic winners into paid tests (15%). Flag your best-performing posts for the ads team and repurpose winning paid angles back into organic formats.
  • Marketing admin reliability (15%). Close assigned marketing admin tasks within 48 hours: asset organization, promo setup support, reporting pulls, sample logistics for shoots. Zero dropped balls.

Requirements

  • You shoot and edit short-form video fast (CapCut or similar) and have the posts to prove it
  • You can be on site in Watsonville, CA 3 to 4 days per week, reliably
  • You have personally run or grown at least one social account
  • You are organized enough to own a posting calendar and never drop a ball

Preferred

  • You have made content for a product brand (physical products you can hold)
  • You are comfortable on camera, or great at getting other people comfortable on camera
  • You have a background in Ecommerce and understanding of the ecosystem
  • You garden, farm, build, or work outside, or you love the people who do
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Farmers Defense

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Farmers Defense is a protective farm wear company developing products to help growers of all sorts farm better.

Watsonville, California, USA
16 employees (5 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$55K/yr – $75K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($65K) is 19% below the median base salary for Social Media Manager roles in the United States ($80K).

Social Media Manager median pay in the United States

$82K/yr

Most pay falls between $70K and $98K. Based on 603 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
5 (31% of company)
Median Tenure
4.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
118.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$16.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.9%
Direct
14.1%
Referral
0.4%
Social
33.7%
Paid
5.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~16
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Social Media Manager & Content Creator

Farmers Defense · Watsonville, CA · Hybrid