Social Strategist

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$66K/yr – $102K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the development and execution of social strategy workstreams from briefing and research to community management and cross-functional collaboration, while expanding category expertise and contributing thought leadership.

  • Develop briefs and conduct research to inform strategy
  • Guide community management and cross-functional collaboration
  • Expand category knowledge and integrate AI-driven tools to improve efficiency

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brief Writing: From interrogating business objectives to identifying the resistance facing the shopper, category, and brand – mastering the nuance of brief development is critical. You will be expected to assist early in the development process—pulling and/or conducting primary and secondary research, mining data, and utilizing third party tools as required
  • Community Management: From understanding audience sentiment and identifying opportunities for meaningful engagement to navigating real-time conversations and strengthening brand relationships, community management is essential to building a holistic social strategy. You will play an integral role in bringing community management expertise into the account, leveraging platform knowledge, audience insights and engagement best practices to inform content development, guide brand interactions and ensure community insights continuously shape the broader social strategy.
  • Build your crew: Forge healthy relationships with your strategy, creative, and account peers across the agency. Peer interaction is an important aspect of this role. You should be learning how to influence creative ideas and fuel the creative process. You should also strive to better understand how to collaborate with and support your account counterparts (AAE and AE)
  • Expand and flex your category expertise: Providing sound strategic guidance and having an inquisitive mindset will position you for success in this role. As a Social Media Strategist, you should be focused on learning the ins and outs of the business, shopper and have a relentless curiosity rooted in finding ways to impact the behaviors circling the category and consumer
  • Thought leadership: Staying abreast of trends, shifts in consumer behavior, and emerging competitive challenges to the landscape will allow you to solidify your value to the team. You will be expected to contribute to the development of POVs, competitive audits, and agency thought pieces that reinforce PXP’s positioning
  • Research & data chops: Supporting figure in the design and execution of research (qual + quant) projects including learning how to manage vendor relationships, writing screeners, and crafting discussion guides
  • Strategic acumen: You should be able to collect the building blocks of a strategy and cull key insights from data and information. You may get involved in client meetings with some supervision and will need to start to understand how to develop client relationships and presentation skills
  • Integrate AI-driven tools into creative and production processes to boost efficiency, elevate content quality, and stay ahead of emerging trends in technology and storytelling

Requirements

  • 4–6 years of experience in social strategy, social media, content strategy, community management, or a related discipline
  • Create compelling, client-facing deliverables on research, strategy, best practices, or other key needs, with minimal senior oversight
  • Ability to work with multiple clients and manage multiple stakeholders at any given time
  • Adept at working on different types of content strategy, whether pre-planned or real-time
  • Find untapped opportunities to add value to the team via research, training or new offering ideas/exploration
  • Learn the art of brief writing and create strong creative briefs, with some senior oversight
  • Learn to collaborate with departmental counterparts (creative, project management, production, etc.)
  • Manage smaller client projects with minimal oversight
  • Contribute actively to client/team meetings
  • Innovate and foster creativity within the team

Benefits

  • our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Publicis Production

Within Publicis Groupe’s Intelligent Creativity business, we specialize in bringing creative ideas to life, and to consumers. By combining 100 years of craft excellence with 6,000 experts across 52 locations of the world’s biggest studio network, we leverage the industry’s richest data, through the power of agentic AI, to radically redefine content production with Intelligent Content. We intuitively deliver this through Marcel Make, the world’s first Intelligent Content agent. The result? Predictively performing content that unlocks business growth in unprecedented ways. No more guesswork. No more waste. Just content that works, working a lot harder.

528 employees (162 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$66K/yr – $102K/yr

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$78K/yr

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Social Strategist

Publicis Production · Chicago, IL · Hybrid