Social Media Specialist (London based)

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! As the Social Media Manager, you will be the strategic and creative engine behind our organic social presence. Based in our London office, you will act as the "on-the-ground" lead, capturing authentic content, managing personal branding for senior leadership, and orchestrating our global agency partners. You are a hybrid talent: a data-driven strategist who can extract deep insights from Hootsuite, and a creative producer who can create high-impact content for LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, x and YouTube. To thrive in this role, you'll need: Social Media: 5 years of experience managing and growing organic communities on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Technical Proficiency: Expert-level experience with Hootsuite (Analytics, Listening, and Planner) and mobile content tools. Experience in Paid content promotion is a plus. Agency Management: Proven track record of managing external agencies or contractors. You know how to get the best work out of a creative team. Analytical Mindset: Highly analytical with the ability to define metrics and translate complex data into clear, strategic recommendations. Executive Presence: Comfortable working directly with C-Suite and senior leaders to extract stories and manage their digital presence. Bonus points if you have: Prior experience working within a Social Media Agency. Prior experience in the AdTech or a similar B2B technology companies. A portfolio demonstrating highly impactful organic campaigns. How you’ll make an impact: Strategic Roadmap: Lead the continuous development and evolution of the organic social media strategy for both the Taboola and Realize brands, ensuring distinct positioning and tailored content pillars for each. Strategy & Analytics: Define organic KPIs and manage the Hootsuite ecosystem. You will be responsible for extracting actionable insights from reporting dashboards to pivot strategy and prove ROI to leadership. High-Impact Content Creation: Concept, film, and produce "hero" organic assets. You must have a "platform-native" mindset, creating content specifically optimized for the algorithms of LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Executive Branding: Act as a strategic partner to senior leaders, managing their personal social media profiles and ghostwriting high-level thought leadership to build their professional brands. Partner & Vendor Management: Lead and manage external contractors, including social media agencies and freelance designers/editors. You will be responsible for briefing, quality control, and ensuring a seamless workflow. Global Stakeholder Liaison: Navigate a complex global organization to align social media assets with multiple regional teams and business units, ensuring brand consistency at scale. Why Taboola? If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about: Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture. Well-being: With an office culture that’s international, social and supportive, Taboola offers very generous benefits including 25 days holiday, excellent health insurance, free breakfast and lunch every day, stock options and Perkbox to name just a few. Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda. Ready to realize your potential? Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the bas