Senior Strategist

Job Description

Blue Hour Studios is a social-first agency that makes brands magnetic through work that gets shared remixed and talked about. We create at the intersection of culture content creators and commerce to help brands turn distinct cultural relevance into demand.

Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles and backed by Horizon Media we connect creativity and media to drive real business impact. Our recipe for success We hire talented people from different perspectives (thats where you come in) challenge them and give them every opportunity to grow.

What Youll Do:

Our strategy team uncovers the interesting connections across culture content creators and commerce that help brands succeed in a social-first world. Were looking for a culturally sharp analytically strong Senior Social Strategist to join our team.

Youll support the social and influencer strategy for a flagship client with a primary focus on turning social data listening and cultural signals into actionable strategy. Youll lead the charge on social listening trend identification influencer identification and performance reporting helping ensure our work is grounded in whats actually happening in culture and optimized in-market. Youll partner closely with creative influencer and paid teams to translate insights into briefs content directions and measurable impact. The Senior Social Strategist reports into the VP Social Strategy Director.

Strategy:

• Lead social listening and analysis using social listening tools and third-party data to uncover cultural trends audience behaviors and competitive signals.

• Continuously track and identify emerging trends formats creators and conversations that can inform content and campaign strategy.

• Translate social cultural and conversational data into clear insights implications and actionable recommendations.

• Identify evaluate and build shortlists of creators and influencers based on audience data content performance and cultural relevance.

• Support the development of social and influencer strategies grounded in real-time insights and performance signals.

• Partner with creative influencer and paid teams to ensure ideas are platform-native culturally relevant and built to scale.

Analytics & Reporting:

• Own performance tracking and reporting across social and influencer campaigns ensuring clear visibility into whats working and why.

• Develop and maintain social and influencer reporting tied to business outcomes.

• Analyze content creator and platform performance to identify optimization opportunities.

• Turn data into stories translating performance into clear actionable insights for our team.

• Support test-and-learn approaches using data to validate ideas and continuously improve results.

Leadership & Thought Leadership:

• Support the VP Social Strategy Director in leading day-to-day strategy across the account.

• Act as a key partner to creative influencer and paid teams bringing a strong POV grounded in data culture and social trends.

• Help develop POVs trend reports and social intelligence outputs that keep clients ahead.

• Be a go-to resource for whats happening across platforms creators and communities.

Who You Are:

• Youre deeply plugged into social culture and creators and constantly tracking whats happening.

• You have strong experience with social listening analytics and performance reporting and know how to turn data into insight.

• Youre fluent in platform behaviors formats and trends across TikTok Instagram YouTube etc.

• You understand how to evaluate creators from content quality to audience signals to performance.

• Youre a clear thinker and strong writer who can translate complex data into simple actions.

• Youre organized detail-oriented and comfortable managing multiple streams of work.

• Youre curious proactive and always looking to push the work further with smarter insights.

Additional Requirements:

• 46 years of experience in social strategy with a strong focus on analytics listening or influencer strategy.

• Deep experience with social listening tools (e.g. Brandwatch Hootsuite Tubular Labs) and platform analytics.

• Experience identifying and evaluating influencers using data and performance metrics.

• Proven ability to develop insights from data and translate them into actionable strategy.

• Strong experience with reporting dashboards and performance analysis.

• Strong deck writing and presentation skills.

• Comfort working in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

Ready to join Blue Hour Send us your resume and portfolio. Were eager to meet you!

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Horizon Media is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

Salary Range

A successful applicants actual base salary may vary based on factors such as individuals skill sets experience training education licensure/certifications and qualifications for the role. As an organization we take an aptitude and competency-based hiring approach. We provide a competitive total rewards package including a discretionary bonus and a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage life and disability insurance retirement savings plans company paid holidays and unlimited paid time off (PTO) mental health and wellness resources pet insurance childcare resources identity theft insurance fertility assistance programs and fitness reimbursement.