Social Media Manager

Are you passionate about influencer, social media and content marketing campaigns? Then we'd love to hear from you. 

Sling & Stone is the communications agency built for challengers, disruptors and innovators. We unearth, craft and share the stories of the world's most ambitious brands shaping the future of how we live, work and play. We've won multiple Best Place to Work and Agency of the Year awards, and our clients include Krispy Kreme, Levi's, Google Cloud, Darrell Lea, Levi's, Notion, CSIRO and more.  We're looking for a Social Media Manager  to help lead our social and content campaigns and tell brand stories through multiple channels.

The role you'll play

As a Social Media Manager you will be delivering our clients' stories through smart social ideas, compelling content, creator campaigns and strategic paid placement. You live and breathe social and content; you stay on top of what's trending and audience behaviours to inform strategies and content ideas that align to clients' objectives. 

A communicator by nature, you'll work with the team to deliver campaigns with real impact and be the client's day-to-day contact on all things social and content. You are a natural leader and a source of inspiration and support for our social team, as well as the wider PR team who you'll work closely in collaboration with on integrated campaigns, providing guidance and direction to help them succeed in their roles. You ensure campaign work is delivered on time, and produced to a high standard.

To be successful in this role you'll need

• Between 4-5+ years of experience in delivering social media content campaigns either at an agency (preferred) or in-house.
• Experience planning, creating and executing social media content for Instagram to TikTok, Facebook, Reddit, X, LinkedIn and more using tools such as Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, and CapCut.
• Can deliver creator marketing and paid social media campaigns using Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok Ads Manager.
• Experience in social media analytics, algorithms and content best practices, and using social media tools for example CreatorIQ, Sprout Social, #gifted, and others to develop insights.
• Experience tracking, analysing, and reporting on social media performance using analytics tools to inform strategy and optimise campaigns.
• A connector mindset, strong relationship building skills and the ability to create and maintain meaningful connections with clients, teams and partners alike.
• Ability to independently take a social media strategy or content strategy, assemble a team and get stuck into the work with minimal supervision.
• Strong knowledge of social media trends, creators, platforms and pop culture.
• Understanding of the role social plays in a wider integrated campaign and are comfortable leading and collaborating with a cross functional team.
• Strategic thinking, and importantly, curiosity. You ask a lot of questions and you are constantly looking for ways to improve how you do things.
• Love managing and mentoring juniors.

Want to know more?

Here's a taste of Sling & Stone:

• We're an award-winning global team of 80+ spanning the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, delivering truly global campaigns.
• We're deliberate about which brands we work with, and say no to those who don't fit our focus on clients shaping the future. 
• While we don't take ourselves too seriously, we do take our work very seriously. We're proud of what we do. Our team is filled with smart, skilled communicators who share and live these core values: Gumption, Build, Play, Tune in.
• We give all Slingers the opportunity to do the most impactful work of their careers here, giving them the training, skills and support to develop new passions, services and client portfolios, with the support of a dedicated manager.
• We offer 20 days annual leave per year, which rolls over if you don't use it by the end of the year, and an additional 10 days wellness leave per year which can be taken for physical or mental wellbeing.
• We have an agency-wide closure between Christmas and New Year's Day where all non-public holidays are gifted so you don't need to use your annual leave.
• Every Slinger also has access to an additional 2 Days that Matter that can be used for anything you wish — be that your birthday off, to move house, celebrate a cultural moment, donate blood, or simply a long weekend to recharge.
• And our Give Back Days provide all Slingers with 2 days a year to donate their time to a charity or NFP.
• We're supportive of parents and believe in inclusivity regardless of whether you're considered the primary and secondary carer: we offer up to 12 weeks Paid Parental Leave for anyone, and in the unfortunate circumstance of baby loss, up to 8 weeks Paid Compassionate Pregnancy Loss Leave.
• We enjoy Meeting Free Fridays so everyone gets a full day of uninterrupted focus time.
• A robust DEI program that focuses on mental health, team education, building a diverse team, client work, and community outreach.
• Access to Uprise, an Employee Assistance Platform, including three confidential counseling sessions per year.
• An office-first approach, with flexibility built in. We have two all-hands days per week as voted for by our team, these are Tuesday and Thursday in New York.
• Up to 6 weeks of remote work from anywhere per year.
• With offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore, as well as sister agencies across the global VCCP group network to which we belong, there are opportunities to extend your holiday or stay in a location and work from another Sling & Stone or group office. 

Ready to apply?

Send us your resume and tell us why you're right for this role We look forward to hearing from you.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Sling & Stone is built on the talent we hire. We're only as good as our people, and the best teams are built with people from a variety of backgrounds, offering a variety of perspectives. Even if you don't meet all of the requirements in our roles, if you think this is the job for you, please go ahead and apply. Studies have shown that certain minority groups will only apply if they meet every specification on a job advert and we want to change this. We do not discriminate against any employee or candidate because of age, gender, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion or disability or any other basis. Our people are chosen on merit, professional qualities and alignment with our values. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.