Social Media Specialist

Santa Clara, CA (Hybrid)

$97K/yr – $108K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the employee advocacy engine end to end, turning colleagues into a scalable social amplifier while syncing with PR, HR and major campaigns.

  • Own strategy, platform, content and enablement to drive participation across regions and functions.
  • Craft social content and programs that employees want to share, with onboarding and recognition that fuel ongoing engagement.
  • Tie advocacy to product launches and milestones and use data to continuously improve impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the full lifecycle of Cohesity's employee advocacy program: strategy, platform management, content, enablement, and growth
  • Develop and execute a program roadmap that increases employee awareness, drives participation, and scales as the company grows
  • Create structured onboarding and ongoing trainings so employees understand why advocacy matters, how to do it well, and how to build their own professional presence on social
  • Design creative contests, challenges, and recognition programs that make participation feel rewarding, not like another ask from corporate
  • Think outside the standard playbook. Bring fresh ideas for how to engage employees across regions, functions, and levels
  • Write posts employees genuinely want to share, content that leads with their perspective, not just the company's
  • Partner with PR, HR, employer branding, and sales to embed advocacy into key company moments and campaigns
  • Track program performance across shares, engagement, reach, and participation, and use that data to keep improving

Social Media Content

  • Create and schedule content for employees to share across LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and other relevant channels
  • Write copy for employees to share with their networks that's on-brand, clear, and built for the platform it lives on
  • Support campaign development across product launches, events, and key company milestones
  • Experiment with formats, video, carousels, short-form, to find what employees want to share
  • Stay current on platform changes, social trends, and what's working in B2B tech

Analytics & Optimization

  • Track and report on social performance, advocacy metrics, and content engagement
  • Test posting times, formats, and messaging to improve reach and results
  • Bring recommendations that are grounded in data, not just gut feeling

Requirements

  • 2-4 years of experience in social media, content marketing, or employee advocacy
  • Proven ability to build or meaningfully grow a program, not just maintain one
  • Strong writing skills, you can adapt your voice by platform, audience, and context
  • Real familiarity with LinkedIn and other B2B-relevant social platforms
  • Hands-on experience with advocacy or social media management tools (Sociabble, Sprout Social, Hootsuite, or similar)
  • Comfort with social analytics and a genuine interest in using data to improve your work
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field preferred
  • Must have English language proficiency (Can interact with a degree of fluency when speaking, reading, and writing in a professional and specialized setting)
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making

Nice to Have

  • Experience designing and running employee trainings, enablement sessions, or ambassador programs is a plus
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making

Benefits

  • health and wellness benefits
  • vacation
  • paid holidays and refresh days
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • life and disability insurance coverages
  • other benefits the Company may offer from time to time
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Cohesity

A modern platform for the AI eraOur mission at Cohesity is simple: to protect, secure, and provide insights into the world’s data. The largest organizations around the globe rely on us to strengthen their business resilience.With the Cohesity Data Cloud, we are able to deliver on that mission. Our customers can recover from cyber events faster, manage and secure their data at enterprise scale, and gain valuable insights with our industry-leading AI capabilities.

Founded in 2013
Santa Clara, California, USA
7.7K employees (198 in marketing)