Social Strategist- 12-Month Maternity Cover FTC

UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the growth and publishing strategy for Time Out’s social channels, turning editorial moments into scalable social formats while partnering with editorial and creative teams to optimize reach and on-screen storytelling.

  • Publish calendar & distribution: time, format, and platform optimization across IG, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube.
  • Content experimentation: structured testing to refine packaging, sequencing, and distribution.
  • Franchise building: turn standout moments into scalable social formats and on-location shoots.

Job Description

Responsibilities: Lead the strategic performance and growth of Time Out’s social channels (London & Travel). Own publishing strategy and execution, ensuring content is delivered at the optimal time, frequency and format for each platform. Analyse audience behaviour and platform insights to continuously improve reach, engagement and content performance. Develop structured testing frameworks to refine content packaging and distribution strategies. Partner closely with editorial teams to ensure content is socially optimised without compromising quality or brand voice. Help shape social-first formats that can scale across platforms. Identify opportunities to turn standout editorial moments into high-performing social franchises. Contribute actively to content creation across platforms, including filming, scripting and shaping social-first formats. Be confident appearing on camera where appropriate, whether fronting explainers, hosting short-form formats or representing Time Out at events. Capture and direct social-first, phone-shot content on location when required. Stay closely connected to cultural moments and platform trends to keep Time Out at the forefront of what’s happening. Own and manage the social publishing calendar across platforms. Balance planned, reactive and trend-led content. Ensure consistent, high-quality output across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.
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Time Out Group Plc

Time Out Group is a global brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city through Time Out Media and Time Out Market. Time Out launched in London in 1968 to help people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the city - today it is the only global brand dedicated to city life. Expert journalists curate and create content about the best things to Do, See and Eat across over 350 cities in over 50 countries and across a unique multi-platform model spanning both digital and physical channels. Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city's best chefs, restaurateurs and unique cultural experiences together under one roof. The portfolio currently includes 13 open Markets, several new locations with expected opening dates in 2026 and beyond, in addition to a pipeline of further locations in advanced discussions. Time Out Group PLC, listed on AIM, is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Founded in 1968
London, England, GBR
666 employees (313 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
16.7M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
67.8%
Direct
25.3%
Referral
3.7%
Social
2.8%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~667

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
268 (40% of company)

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