Social Media Manager

We're the communications and marketing agency built for challengers, disruptors and visionaries. We help brands change the way people live, work or play around the world.

Are you passionate about social media, creator 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, AH Beard, Google Cloud and more.  We’re now looking for a Social Media Manager to help lead our social media campaigns to tell innovative brand stories.

The role you’ll play

As a Social Media Manager you will be delivering our clients’ stories through smart social ideas across both organic and paid, compelling content and influencer collaborations. You live and breathe social and content; you stay on top of trending content and audience behaviors to inform opportunistic content and strategies 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 the team who you’ll work closely in collaboration with on integrated campaigns, providing guidance and direction to help them succeed in their roles. You will be experienced in client management and account service and you ensure campaign work is delivered on time, and produced to a high standard.

To be successful in this role you’ll need

• Between 4-6 years of experience in delivering social media campaigns either at an agency (preferred) or in-house.
• Experience across a range of social media marketing platforms and channels, which must include social media, user-generated content, creator campaigns, paid social media, and more. 
• Experience in paid media, including owning paid strategy and execution.
• Ability to independently take a social media strategy, assemble a team and get stuck into the work with minimal supervision. 
• Excellent client management and account service skills who can lead a campaign from start to finish
• 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
• Experience in social media analytics, algorithms and content best practices, and using social media tools such as CreatorIQ, Sprout, and others to develop insights.

Want to know more?

• We’re a global team of 60+ spanning Australia, New Zealand and Singapore delivering truly global campaigns
• We’ve won multiple best place to work awards, including the 2023 PRWeek Best Place to Work APAC and the 2022 PRWeek Best Culture of the Year APAC, as well as #2 in the 2023 PRovoke Best Agencies To Work For APAC.
• 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, 10 days wellness leave per year, which can be taken for physical or mental wellbeing, as well as 23 December to 2 January off in addition to your leave allowance
• Every Slinger also has access to an additional 2 days per calendar year to use as they wish and 2 additional days to volunteer their time to a charity
• 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.
• With offices in Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore as well as many sister agencies across the VCCP group, there are opportunities to extend your holiday or stay in a location and work from another Sling & Stone or VCCP office with prior sign-off. 

Ready to apply?

Send us your resume and tell us why you’re right for this role! 

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 for 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.