Job Description
Location:
London, GB
Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, CN Traveller, Vanity Fair, Wired, The World of Interiors, House & Garden and Tatler, among many others.
We are headquartered in New York and London and operate in 32 markets worldwide, with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers across print, digital, video and social platforms.
Condé Nast thrives on collaboration, and our teams come together in the office four days a week (Monday - Thursday).
We value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, skills and contributions, recognising the power our brands have to influence and shape culture.
The Team
Condé Nast’s Off-Platform Audience Strategy team is a centre of excellence serving as the connective tissue between brand social, audience development, and video teams, internal cross-functional stakeholders, and external platform partners such as Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.
We develop strategies, tools, and resources that drive company KPIs and support organic audience growth with the next generation of consumers. From launching brands on emerging platforms like Bluesky to auditing and optimising Facebook strategies that drive traffic, we bridge big-picture trends and company objectives with the day-to-day execution of our social managers.
The Role
We’re seeking an entrepreneurial and creative Manager, Social Strategy to work directly with our brands and partners. The ideal candidate will have experience managing social media accounts for a media or entertainment company, strong written and verbal communication skills, and confidence with hands-on analytics work and building presentations.
This role offers the opportunity to work independently, shape projects around your strengths and interests, and drive meaningful change across some of the world’s most influential and creative publications.
What will you be doing?
- Execute and support key projects that connect social growth to monetisation on TikTok, Facebook and more
- Act as a trusted advisor for global brands, providing feedback, coaching, and strategy sessions with editorial leaders and social managers
- Help prepare and present monthly Social All-Hands, identifying new trends, features and the great work of internal teams to highlight, as well as functional updates on company KPIs and social tooling
- Troubleshoot creative and technical challenges across internal and external teams with professionalism and clarity
- Support the rollout of company-wide initiatives that touch social, including those from content planning, partnerships, and product teams
- Develop and maintain global best practice decks for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and emerging platforms
- Develop specialized playbooks and training that educate teams on KPIs, algorithms, new features and evolving social storytelling techniques
About You:
- Proven experience (3+ years) running brand social accounts across multiple platforms, ideally within media or entertainment.
- Deep, working knowledge of all major social platforms, their features, and emerging trends.
- Research and analytical skills to identify performance trends within Condé Nast’s social channels and source inspiration from across the industry.
- Proven ability to build trust and work independently with colleagues across a wide variety of levels and disciplines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a clear, approachable style suited to both training and creative and technical resource development
- Basic competence with analytics: compiling and analysing platform data, formatting in Google Sheets and Excel, understanding core social metrics, and translating insights into actionable recommendations.
- Understanding of what makes great social content across platforms and ability to give feedback and identify opportunities for brand social teams
- Familiarity with social scheduling and analytics tools, ideally Dash Social and ListenFirst
- Self-starter comfortable with the ability to identify new opportunities, anticipate needs and build strategies and workflows from the ground up
Nice to Have
- Experience working with longform content on YouTube and using tools like Tubular
- Social video production experience
- Experience developing and managing dashboards with visualisation tools like Tableau or Looker
Does this sound like you?
Please upload your CV and cover letter/portfolio, which highlights why you'd love to take on this role and why you're a great match for what we're looking for.
We value the time and effort behind every application. All submissions are reviewed by a member of our talent team - we don’t use AI-assisted technology to review applications.
What benefits do we offer?
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and extra days of annual leave if you move house or want to volunteer.
- You’ll have access to a competitive pension scheme, Bupa Private Healthcare, Season ticket loans and eye tests.
- We offer a range of tools to support your wellbeing, including core hours, 10 remote days (from home or a country with a Condé Nast office location), access to our Employee Assistance Programme, corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme.
- We’re a dog friendly office, plus you’ll enjoy discounts and magazine subscriptions, keeping you up to date with all things Condé Nast.
- We encourage personal and professional growth through the Condé Nast Learning Hub where you’ll find an extensive portfolio of learning courses and training, available in local languages.
- Our Employee Resource Groups provide a platform for employees to identify shared objectives, exchange ideas, and work on community priorities for our global workforce.
What happens next?
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.
Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.