Social Media Manager and Content Strategist

We are a growing social media agency managing short-form content for founders, professionals and personal brands across legal, finance, coaching and creator markets. Small team, fast decisions, no bureaucracy.

You own accounts end to end. Strategy, scripting, editing, publishing, community and reporting.

What you do:

Strategy and calendar

Own the monthly content calendar across Instagram, youtube and TikTok
Research top creators in the client niche, identify what already works on the account
Hunt outliers. Anything doing 5x normal reach gets doubled down on deliberately
Build content that attracts buyers, not random views. No trends for the sake of trends

Scripting and filming direction

Script a full month of short-form in advance
Direct clients on what to shoot, angles, setups, how to batch in one session
Write for the delivery the client can actually execute

Production, per account, per month

Deliverable Your role
20-30 Reels Client films. You cut, or brief and review, depending on account setup
4 Carousels You write and design
2 Photo posts Client supplies. You edit and caption
15 Stories You build from scratch, sales-focused

Account setups vary. Some come with dedicated editor support where you brief and review. Others you produce end to end yourself. New accounts are typically produced directly by you until volume justifies assigning an editor, and you cover overflow and editor absence across the book. You must be genuinely hands-on in Adobe, not a strategist who only briefs.

Publishing, community, reporting

Post and schedule across both platforms, or deliver to the client folder with full posting instructions
Reply to DMs and comments in the client's voice, summarise recurring themes weekly, flag brand inbound
CTAs routing to DMs, lead magnets and email list
Track leads and conversions, not vanity metrics. Monthly reporting against those milestones

Non-negotiable

Applications missing any of these are discarded.

1. Minimum 10 client accounts managed. List them. We need someone who has held a real book of work, not one account for one employer.

2. Three contactable references. Past clients or employers.

3. Live links, not screenshots. Real accounts we can click through.

4. Before and after on at least 3 accounts. What you inherited, what you changed, what the numbers did.

5. Genuine variety. Multiple industries and content styles. Single-niche portfolios are not enough.

6. Hands-on editing. Working daily in Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop or Illustrator, and CapCut. Resolve or Final Cut instead of Premiere is fine if the work is strong. Start your application with the word MERIDIAN so we know you read this.

7. English at client-call level. You will run calls unsupervised.

Pay
$1,300/month base
Plus $150 per client account you manage
Rising to $200 per account once it passes three months with us
Capped at six accounts, so up to $2,500/month

Three accounts puts you above $1,750. Independent contractor, paid monthly in USD by bank transfer or stablecoin. 90-day initial period, then rolling month to month, cancellable either side.

Requirements
5+ years managing social accounts professionally
Reliable internet, backup power arrangement
Monday to Friday, with overlap into our hours

Send us:

The 10 accounts you have managed, with the 3 references

Live links plus before and after on 3 of them

Three shorts you personally cut, with a line on what the raw footage looked like
Your daily-use software

How much direction do you need, and where do you run independently?

Your cadence for scripts, calendar and posting, and what you need from a client weekly

What you track, how often the client sees it, what a monthly report looks like

Your rate and what is included

One concrete idea for a personal brand account in the women's self-development space
Process

Application review, 30-minute video interview, reference calls, paid trial (a test month of strategy with reasoning plus shorts you cut yourself, paid regardless of outcome),

The bigger picture:

We are not filling a seat. We are looking for the person who runs content here.

You are the first strategy hire. Everything after you gets built around the standard you set. The editors we hire report into your direction, work to your briefs, and answer to your review.

You will produce heavily at the start. That is intentional. You cannot direct a team to a standard you have not personally set. But the trajectory is off the timeline and into leadership: creative direction across every account, quality control, hiring and training the editors under you, and building the systems the team runs on.

If it works, we grow this together. Compensation, scope and title all move with what you build.

If you want to be handed briefs, this is not it. If you want to own the function, read on.

Punctuality is part of the assessment. If you cannot make a scheduled call, message before it starts. We hold ourselves to the same standard.