Senior communications specialist - social media
Level inferred from job title
Job description
A senior social media specialist role in Canonical's communications team, developing and owning communications strategy across channels with a focus on brand equity and differentiation. The role reports to the director of communications and is based remotely in the EMEA region.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA region
What you'll do
- Develop and own the communications strategy across multiple channels, with a focus on excellent planning, messaging quality and timely delivery
- Deliver regular analysis and reporting on various communications channels, content performance and campaigns results
- Support the growth and nurturing of Canonical's enterprise audience, while increasing product adoption
- Develop flair with copywriting and asset creation to create messaging that aligns with the brand and its personality, and drives audiences towards action
- Be audience centric and use modern tools to understand market sentiment
- Create awareness on integrated campaigns, product launches, webinar series, industry announcements and core content
- Package all of Canonical's product offerings and educational material creatively, while overseeing distribution strategy and alignment across channels
What we're looking for
- Understanding of best practices for communications in tech
- Deep experience with all major social media platforms with strong creative judgement
- Hands-on knowledge of social media management and analytics tools
- Interest in mentorship and team development
- An analytical eye and the ability to develop measuring frameworks to inform senior decision making
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and aptitude for forging trusting relationships across diverse, cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with campaign objectives, paid media strategies and PR/AR initiatives
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong content marketer
- Proven ability to prioritize and differentiate what matters from the noise, meeting deadlines without sacrificing quality
- Process owner for organic social media, establishing standards and leading planning and distribution across channels
- Interest in video and production, with some projects or strong thoughts on the use of video in social media
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal or external events
Your team
communications team
Provides a window between the people who make Canonical's products and those who use them; audiences in the millions engage with the online communities.
Benefits
- Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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About Canonical
Be the voice of Canonical across channels
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- Remote-first company since its inception in 2004
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Colleagues in 75+ countries with very few office-based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background