Senior Social Media Specialist
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A really exciting role has opened up on the Global Social Media Team here at On !
We’re looking for a Senior Specialist to join our team to focus on Running (road, track and trails). You’ll create human-first stories about our athletes, products and campaigns - rooted in cultural insight and designed to entertain and engage our audiences.
This is role is part creative, part strategic and part executional. You’ll be coming up with brilliant ideas and bringing them to life on our social channels!
Come and join our amazing team, and do some great work with us 🚀🌌:
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Senior Specialist - Social Media - Running
In short
Social media is central to the On brand and key to connecting with our communities in a genuine way to communicate our brand mission ‘to ignite the human spirit through movement’. Running is at our core and as we continue to grow we’re looking for an experienced social media creative to bring to life our Running campaigns and athletes stories across Instagram, TikTok, Strava and YouTube. You’ll collaborate with global marketing, strategy, creative, digital and art direction teams to land our key campaigns with our running communities.
Reporting to the Lead - Global Social Media, you’ll be key to creating compelling stories for our social channels.
Your Mission
- Oversee all social media planning within our running category (from the road, to track and the trails). See ideas through from conception to execution for our running campaigns, projects and events.
- Engage with our target communities through insight-led social content creation: with an ambition to disrupt run culture and deepen On’s connection with our athletes.
- Develop and present brilliant ideas aimed at impacting running culture through social media to internal stakeholders.
- Brief internal and external creative teams on socially-native content designed to entertain and be shared whilst maintaining a premium edge.
- Comfortable capturing or directing content on campaign sets, as well as during live sporting events.
- Collaborate closely with our internal athlete strategy team to concept and create insight-led stories with our key athletes.
- Demonstrate the ability to challenge conventions and the status quo, constantly seeking new ideas, methods, and technologies to improve social output.
Your story
- 5+ years’ working in a social media content creation role - you may have experience working as a social media manager or social creative / social art director
- Passionate about running. You have a deep understanding of what running means to different people of varying abilities, from your everyday runners to elite runners, and everything in between
- Comfortable working autonomously with the ability to communicate efficiently with stakeholders of varying seniority
- Ability to implement and work towards self-imposed deadlines and timings that align with wider teams
- Live and breathe social media, staying on top of the latest content formats and trends is a must
- Proven track record of developing ideas and content strategies to deliver views and engagement across key channels like TikTok, Instagram, Strava and YouTube
- Be proactive and collaborative, with experience working in a high-performing team
- Brief and manage external creative partners (photographers, content creators, agencies)
- Strong communication and writing skills - presenting ideas and plans to marketing, strategy, communication, production and creative teams
- You have the desire to produce best-in-class content and experience in producing or commissioning content yourself
About the Team
On’s Brand Studio is an award-winning internal studio aiming to challenge world-leading creative agencies. At our core, we tell compelling stories and bring experiences to life. We channel the energy and global nature of the brand into our daily work and you can help us continue our fantastic run of successes. If you’re bursting with original ideas and have the drive and experience to see them realised, this is the team for you.
London
Home to nearly 3000 parks, a population speaking more than 300 languages, and a vibrant art and music scene, London is one of the world’s most loved cities for good reason.
12 Fleur De Lis Street,
E1 6DB
United Kingdom
Zürich
Just by the banks of the Limmat you’ll find our largest global hub in Zürich West – On Labs – where you can hike up 12 floors through our custom-built spiral trail.
Förrlibuckstrasse 190,
8005
Switzerland
Ann
Senior Director of Brand Studio
I think something that unites people here is the pace and the drive. The ambition is quite high in everything we do and when you bring these people together, you see the outcome can be multiplied. It's super impressive to see what happens when you put these creative teams together who really help each other grow.
What we offer
On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.
On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination.
What to expect
We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.
Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.
Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.
Step One:
It starts with you...
You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role.
We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.