Social Media Growth Lead

Black & White Zebra

9h•$90,000 - $120,000•Remote

About The Position

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 members of our community. 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 our 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. Your work will expand our reach, deepen engagement, increase retention, and consistently drive new audience members into our owned channels. You understand how content performs on social platforms and what makes senior decision-makers stop, 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.

Requirements

Experience producing short-form, platform-native video content and 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

Responsibilities

Translate and distribute content into social formats: You will 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 Extract and adapt key moments from audio content into short-form formats Translate ideas into formats that are engaging, shareable, and repeatable Experiment with emerging formats and platform features Your goal is to make content visible, relevant, and consistently consumed by senior decision-makers across social platforms.
Execute social growth campaigns across organic, paid, and partner channels: You will plan and launch campaigns that amplify key content and drive audience growth. 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 Your goal is to consistently expand reach, increase engagement, and bring new audience members into our ecosystem.
Optimize performance and build repeat engagement and retention: You will own how social performance improves over time. Track 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 Your goal is to turn one-time interactions into repeat behaviors and sustained audience engagement.
Drive subscriber growth and community development from social channels: You will connect social activity directly to audience growth. 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 Your goal is to ensure social media is a reliable and growing source of new subscribers and engaged community members.
Measure performance and optimize for audience growth and retention: You will own how social performance is measured and improved, with a clear focus on 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 Your work should lead to continuous improvement in engagement, reach, audience growth, and retention.