Social Media Manager

Reddits Communications team shapes our narrative within the company and around the world. We work across corporate policy and safety consumer product social and trade communications to keep employees and external audiences informed and engaged. Were hiring a Social Media Manager to scale our organic social program and amplify Reddits voice to current and potential users.

You will serve as Reddits day-to-day voice and act as the primary operator for our flagship @Reddit handles across TikTok Instagram X Threads and LinkedIn. Youll report to our Exec & Digital Comms Lead and serve as a thought partner in shaping our overarching social media strategy.

In this position youll have a pulse on the most important and interesting trends across Reddit and other platforms and translate these moments into highly shareable social media content for our brand. Youll mine for interesting moments across Reddit create content seen by millions worldwide and engage directly with our followers. Youll take calculated risks and treat social content as a product continuously experimenting measuring and learning. Some flexibility during off-hours for real-time cultural moments is expected.

An ideal candidate is a seasoned editorial-minded social media and online community manager who is an Internet culture connoisseur. You have a deep understanding of the nuances between social media platforms and a sixth sense of what our followers on each channel want to see and care addition to these traits you have excellent communication skills a great sense of humor and think about content from both a strategic and creative perspective.

This is an exciting time for Reddit. Were growing quickly innovating daily and aggressively pursuing our mission to empower communities and make their knowledge accessible to everyone in the world. This Social Media Manager will amplify the best of Reddits content conversations and communities to millions of potential new users and shape our global perception.

Key Responsibilities

• Build on Reddits organic social media strategy aligned with current business objectives.
• Manage and develop our social media editorial calendar working closely with cross-functional teams on upcoming programs we can support.
• Directly create content for our channels and partner with our Creative team on more advanced content ideas.
• Ensure our content strategy meets our ambitious growth goals without compromising creative integrity.
• Keep your finger on the pulse of key events across the news and other social platforms make real-time recommendations for our social media channels based on trending topics.
• Mine Reddit for amazing moments that should be shared with our off-platform followers and generate supporting content that complements our strategy.
• Monitor mentions of Reddit across our social media channels identify overarching trends or issues and escalate to relevant internal teams.
• Manage our growing social media communities ensuring we are fostering quality engagement and positive relations with our followers.
• Measure analyze and improve content performance on a range of metrics to ensure were building best-in-class content experiences that perform well and delight our followers.
• Proactively search for (and develop) unique opportunities for creative Reddit-y engagements across our social media channels.
• Partner with internal teams including Consumer Marketing Product Marketing Experience and Community to provide strategic social media guidance and support for relevant programs and campaigns.
• Advice our international social media teams on strategy processes and best practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Marketing Communications Journalism or related field
• Proven experience managing social media accounts and editorial best practices for household brand names
• 7 years of related work experience (social media community management editorial content)
• Business-oriented with the ability to understand marketing data
• A sharp editorial instinct and the ability to capture Reddits tone in short-form content
• Precise typo-free and creative communication skills both in person and in writing
• Comfort with basic image editing and graphic design (Canva experience a plus)
• You are passionate about great storytelling sophisticated business analysis and are a stickler for top-tier editorial standards and quality prose
• You are intellectually curious and display excellent taste and judgment
• Familiarity with and enthusiasm for Reddits never-ending rabbit hole of communities

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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If due to a disability you need an accommodation during the interview process please let your recruiter know.