Social Media Executive

Cardiff, UK (On-site)

£23K/yr – £25K/yrEntry LevelFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

You will own the full cycle of client social content, from crafting captions and visuals to posting, reporting and trend research, while coordinating with the Account Manager to keep every client on track.

  • Craft captions and posts in client voices, and produce carousels or graphics
  • Track performance, interpret metrics, and adapt strategies with the team
  • Collaborate on schedules and keep clients on track across multiple platforms

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Writing captions for client content across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn, in each client’s tone of voice
  • Creating carousels, graphics and static posts in Canva or Adobe
  • Scheduling and manually posting content across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn for all clients
  • Writing LinkedIn posts for clients and their founders, so they sound like them and not like a robot
  • Pulling together monthly performance reports, and understanding what the numbers mean
  • Researching trends, hooks and formats, and what’s performing and why
  • Keeping up with platform and algorithm changes across Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn
  • Working closely with our Account Manager to keep every client on track

Requirements

  • Based in Cardiff, with a genuine desire to work from our office at The Maltings
  • A real passion for social media. You use it, you think about it and you understand how it works
  • Strong writing skills, and the ability to switch your tone for different clients
  • Some graphic design experience. Canva is fine, Adobe is a bonus
  • A strong eye for detail. Typos and missed posts don’t slip past you
  • The ability to manage multiple clients and tasks without dropping the ball

Preferred

  • Experience in a social media, marketing or agency environment
  • Experience writing for LinkedIn
  • An understanding of content strategy and performance metrics

Benefits

  • Get a pay review at the end of your 3-month probation
  • Be mentored directly by the founder and our Account Manager, with real investment in your growth as a creative and a strategist
  • Work on a wide variety of brands, from health clinics, property and trades to coaches and tech companies, across the UK, the US, Australia and Europe
  • Gain hands-on experience in paid social and attribution, seeing exactly how content turns into enquiries for our clients
  • Get access to premium AI tools, including Claude, and the freedom to experiment with them
  • Get 28 days’ holiday including bank holidays, plus your birthday off every year
  • Join our workplace pension scheme
  • Get a training budget for courses that make you better at what you do
  • Have the opportunity and support to grow your personal brand alongside the role
  • Join a fast-growing agency at an exciting stage. You won’t be inheriting a finished product, you’ll be helping build one
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Proteus Digital

Proteus Digital started the way most good things do - with no plan, no funding and a lot of belief.Finley Hyett launched the agency at 17 years old on the streets of Cardiff, knocking on doors and asking businesses if they needed a website. Within a year that had turned into a full team, a studio in the heart of the city and a client roster that includes some of the most exciting brands in the UK.We are a digital agency based in The Maltings, Cardiff. We manage social media, run Meta ad campaigns, build websites and develop personal brands for businesses across the UK and around the world. Our studio model means we come to you - we film everything, edit everything and post everything. Our remote model means location is never a barrier - clients send us footage from anywhere in the world and we take it from there.What makes us different is not the platforms we work on. Every agency works on Instagram and TikTok. What makes us different is the thinking that goes into every single piece of content before anyone picks up a camera. We call it the Performance Role Framework. Every post is assigned a role - Attention, Authority, Relatability, Perception or Activation - before a single second is filmed. Nothing goes out without a purpose.We have worked with Bear Grylls and Dr Alex George's mental fitness platform, independent car dealerships, nurse-led aesthetics clinics, Paralympic athletes, heritage retailers and corporate wellbeing companies. The businesses are different. The approach is always the same. Bold, human content that actually does something.We are not the biggest agency in Wales. We are working on that. But we are already one of the most ambitious - and the work speaks for itself.Turning Vision Into Victory.

Founded in 2025
Cardiff, Wales, GBR
3 employees (3 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

£23K/yr – £25K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (67% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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Current headcount: ~3
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Social Media Executive

Proteus Digital · Cardiff, UK · On-site