Senior Social Media Content Manager

Location: London, EC2A

Shifts: Monday to Friday 9:00am – 5:30pm (Monday and Thursday in office)

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Social Media Content Manager who is as strong in front of the camera as behind it, and who’s ready to own the creative output on some exciting social accounts. You’ll shape social strategy from the brief up and take ideas from concept to delivery across TikTok, Instagram and Linkedin. You’ll also help win and grow client work by contributing to decks and spotting new opportunities. You’ll mentor junior creatives and use performance insights to keep raising the bar. If you’re an experienced agency creator who wants more ownership, more influence and a team that trusts you to run with it, this is the role.

Benefits

• Generous Holidays starting from 33 days per annum

• Birthday leave (post-probation)

• Tax Free EOT Bonus

• Group Life Assurance

• Social events organised by our Social Committee

• Optional private medical insurance after 1 year

• Long service awards every 5 years

• Employee of the Quarter programme

• Free tea, coffee, snacks, kitchen facilities, and breakout spaces

• Beer Fridge Fridays

• Referral programme

• Pirkx benefits from day one

• Auto-enrolment pension (3% employer contribution after 3 months)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the creation and delivery of high-performing, social-first video content, from scripting and shooting to editing, both in front of and behind the camera

• Turn client briefs into clear, effective social and content strategies, and contribute to efforts that help grow existing client accounts

• Identify opportunities for clients, and take ownership of ideas from concept through to final execution

• Oversee content calendars and ensure platform-native creative across TikTok, Instagram, Meta, and LinkedIn

• Analyse content performance and optimise output to improve engagement and results

• Collaborate with internal teams and clients to deliver against agreed social strategies

• Mentor and support junior team members and external creators, helping to build and maintain your network

Requirements

• Solid agency or in-house social media experience, ideally 5+ years

• Highly skilled and experienced content creator, with hands-on experience creating and editing video and visual content, both on and off camera (essential to the role)

• Genuinely autonomous and proactive at senior level, able to manage your own workload and take ownership of your work

• Strong social strategy experience, with the ability to turn a brief into a compelling social/content approach, demonstrating a creative and commercial balance

• Strong understanding of major social platforms, trends and algorithms

• Confident presenting ideas and performance insights to clients or senior stakeholders

• Agency experience strongly preferred, with a clear understanding of the pace, processes, client feedback and commercial realities of agency work