Social Media Marketing Manager

Social Media Manager, Contractor, 90 Day Engagement Sapience AI | Seattle area or remoteAbout Sapience AISapience AI builds the platform for collective professional intelligence, helping membership organizations turn what their people know into what their people can do. We are a small, fast- moving team building toward our global product Launch.About the roleWe are hiring a Social Media Manager to own all of our socials for Sapience AI end-to-end. You will work alongside internal teams and agencies to translate product moments, customer stories, and engineering milestones into content that earns attention across LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and developer channels. You will be the only social hire on the team, which means you will edit and write copy, publish each post with appropriate social assets, monitor comments, and track metrics from each channel with reporting to senior leadership. You will have full access to Brand, Marketing, and Engineering for context and source material, however, you will create the output. This role suits someone who thinks like a producer and writes like an editor. You can take raw assets such as product videos, screen captures, customer quotes, benchmark data, and engineering demos, and turn them into engaging, channel-ready content. You will customize each piece for the audience and the platform it is meant for.What you will ownContent production from raw asset to published post, including video editing, motion graphics, still design, and copywritingChannel strategy and publishing calendar across LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and additional test channelsWeekly performance reporting through Buffer, shared with the broader teamCommunity monitoring and first line response across all owned Sapience AI channelsTrend identification and rapid response content when relevant moments emergeReporting on brand drift that includes a clear weekly account of published content that did not meet brand standards, with complete notes and what the source materials need in order to be fully on brand next time. This feedback loop is imperative for internal brand learning without slowing down critical announcements. Required skills3+ years Marketing experience with producing and publishing social content for a technology company, ideally one with developer or enterprise audiences – bonus points for work with and for AI companiesFluency in the Adobe Creative SuiteHands on experience with Buffer or similar publishing and analytics platform, including building and presenting cross-functional weekly reportsDemonstrated ability to edit long-form product or marketing video into short-form social content that performsSharp copywriting that adapts to platform, audience, and brand voiceComfort working independently with full ownership and minimal oversightWorking knowledge of LinkedIn, X, and YouTube algorithms and current best practicesAbility to read social analytics and translate performance into a clear narrative or visuals for non-social audiencesPreferred skillsFamiliarity with AI products and the language of the AI categoryPhotography or video editing skills sufficient to deliver final assets from original contentBasic understanding of paid social mechanics for amplification testing.Experience working alongside external agencies and contributing to integrated campaignsComfort with AI tools for production support, including transcription, image generation, and copy iterationWhat success looks like in the first 90 daysEstablished publishing rhythm across our priority channelsWeekly Buffer report delivered with clear takeaways and recommendationsLibrary of channel ready templates built from existing brand assetsLead the business though 6 micro campaign launches and performance analysis.Weekly brand report shared with the team, with at least one upstream improvement identified for Engineering or ProductHow we workWe are clear, direct, and make decisions fast. We value craft and outcomes over process. We believe a brand earns trust by showing its work.Engagement details90 day contract, 30 hours per week, $4,000 per month. 1099 employment. Remote acceptable, Seattle area preferred.