[Hiring] Senior communications specialist - social media @Canonical

Role Description

Be the voice of Canonical across channels. We are looking for an outstanding colleague to join our communications team as a senior social media specialist. The ideal person for this role is driven to develop and implement social media strategies focused on long-term brand equity and differentiation.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD 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.