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Social Media Growth Lead

Black & White Zebra, San Diego, CA, USA

Pay: $85,000-$110,000/yr

Job type: Full Time


About the Role
We’re looking for a Social Media Growth Lead to build, engage, grow, and retain audiences of senior decision-makers on social platforms and convert them into subscribers and loyal community members. This role is responsible for turning our content, audio, events, and insights into high-performing, platform-native formats that drive visibility, repeat engagement, and measurable audience growth.

You will own how our brands show up across social channels by translating core ideas into content senior leaders watch, engage with, return to, and build habits around. You will connect social performance directly to subscriber growth by building repeatable systems for distribution, engagement, conversion, and retention.

Who You Are

You understand how content performs on social platforms and what makes senior decision-makers stop to watch, engage, return, and build ongoing consumption habits.

You are comfortable working across video, audio, written, and event-driven content and know how to translate ideas into formats that fit each platform.

You think in terms of distribution, engagement, growth, and retention, with a focus on reaching and sustaining a high-value audience of senior leaders.

You are data-informed and action-oriented. You track performance closely, understand what is working, and adjust quickly.

You know how to take a piece of content or moment and extend its reach through packaging, timing, and amplification.

What You’ll Be Doing

Translate and distribute content into social formats to extend the reach of our content and thought leadership across social platforms.

Capture and repurpose video, written, audio, and event content.

Create short‑form, platform-native content across channels.

Identify and extract key moments from editorial, audio, and events.

Translate ideas into formats that are engaging, shareable, and repeatable.

Experiment with emerging formats and platform features.

Execute social growth campaigns across organic, paid, and partner channels.

Launch campaigns tied to content, events, and thought leadership.

Use organic distribution, paid amplification, and partnerships to extend reach.

Plan, launch, and optimize paid social campaigns to drive reach, engagement, and subscriber growth.

Build and manage creator and expert partnerships.

Execute distribution partnerships across platforms.

Build and manage direct relationships with platform partners such as LinkedIn and YouTube to unlock distribution opportunities, features, and insights.

Identify and leverage platform opportunities to increase visibility.

Own how social performance improves over time, tracking performance across content, campaigns, and paid channels.

Analyze engagement, reach, repeat interaction, and retention data.

Optimize formats, timing, targeting, and distribution strategies.

Continuously test and refine content and campaign approaches.

Build repeatable formats and campaigns that drive consistent engagement and return behavior.

Drive subscriber growth and community development from social channels.

Develop and execute strategies that convert social audiences into subscribers.

Optimize social‑to‑subscriber conversion pathways.

Ensure social content consistently drives traffic to owned channels.

Track and improve conversion performance across platforms.

Build repeatable systems that turn engagement into measurable subscriber growth.

Measure performance and optimize for audience growth and retention.

Define how success is measured across social content and campaigns.

Track and analyze performance across organic, paid, and partner channels.

Identify what is driving engagement, reach, subscriber growth, and retention.

Make clear adjustments to improve performance over time.

Ensure social activity is tied to measurable audience growth and retention outcomes.

How Your Success Will Be Measured

Growth in subscribers and engaged community members from social channels.

Growth in engaged audience across social platforms.

Increased return engagement and retention from audiences acquired from social.

Strong performance across video views, engagement rates, campaigns, and paid performance.

Consistent execution of high-performing social content and campaigns.

Your Skillset Includes

Experience producing short‑form, platform-native video content and converting ideas into engaging social formats.

Experience running and optimizing organic and paid social campaigns, including managing budgets and performance.

Experience tracking and analyzing performance across social channels.

Ability to optimize content and campaigns based on data.

Experience working with partners, creators, or collaborators.

Highly organized content planner, comfortable building and leveraging social calendars and plans.

Strong judgment in content selection, timing, and distribution.

Nice to Haves

Experience distributing thought leadership or editorial content at a B2B/media brand.

Experience working with audio content and translating it into social formats.

Existing relationships with LinkedIn and/or YouTube platform partner teams.

Background capturing and repurposing content from our contributors, events, and other sources.

Experimentation / A/B testing discipline on content formats and paid creative.

On‑camera comfort and experience coaching internal experts to perform on video.

Why This Role Matters

Extend the reach of our content and thought leadership.

Build, engage, grow, and retain a high-value audience and loyal community of senior leaders.

Create repeat consumption habits.

Drive audience growth through social channels.

Strengthen our presence across key platforms.

Connect social performance directly to business outcomes.

Salary Statement
This full-time position is available as a remote role that offers an annual base salary in the range of $85,000 to $110,000 USD. The range is a guide for the expected skills, knowledge, and experience for new hires based in the USA only. Seniority level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. This means ranges will vary for candidates based outside of USA and/or at different seniority levels. In addition to annual salary, full‑time employees are eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Black and White Zebra is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran’s status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation or any other category protected by law. We celebrate all backgrounds and attributes that continue to help make our team impactful, iterative, adaptable, and fun!

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