Social Media Manager

About us

We are wearegrip, a London-based creative studio working with some of the most exciting drivers in F1. Our goal is to build the most distinctive personal brands in sport that capture the attention of fans, teams, and brands around the world. Working hand-in-hand with each driver, we create and manage their personal brand across social media, branding, marketing, merchandise, content creation, digital, and more.

When you join wearegrip, you’ll be working at the heart of our multi-skilled, fast-paced start-up and immediately have the opportunity to begin shaping your future within our highly motivated and passionate team.

Social Media Manager

We are searching for an experienced Social Media Manager to add to our highly-talented team at wearegrip. As a Social Media Manager, you will work closely with the Brand Manager and Head of Social to ensure our clients have a leading online presence in their respective fields.

You will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations on a number of our client accounts, working with the Social Media Executive to ensure client strategies and content best practices are executed across all platforms.

This role will involve working closely with our internal design and marketing teams to ensure our clients’ goals are met through the promotion of products and merchandise via social media.

The ideal candidate for this role has experience with mobile content capture, as you will plan and attend shoots with our clients, creating social-first audience that will engage their current and potential new audiences.

Your role will be varied and will see you cover race weekends from our London office, publishing live coverage of the action, and ensuring our planned strategies and narratives are communicated effectively on social media.

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Overseeing daily operations on client and company social media channels

• Ideation, planning and publishing of content across channels

• Report building for both internal and external purposes

• Working with the Brand Manager to develop and execute content strategies

• Mentorship and line management of Executives

• Working collaboratively with the Marketing team to support the planning of merchandise campaigns to promote new clothing collections

• Creation of client briefs and strategy decks

• Capturing, creating and editing mobile-first content for social channels when required 

Our ideal candidate

• 3+ years of experience working in social media for high-profile talent, athletes, or fashion/ consumer brands with significant audiences

• Experience managing or mentoring juniors

• Social media native who keeps date with emerging social media trends and has a deep understanding of platform best practices, particularly Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Threads

• Passion for sports, particularly Formula 1

• Has worked with clients or external agencies in a professional capacity

• Excellent English copywriting skills and you're as comfortable writing engaging longer form content as you are writing short captions.

• Experience with the promotion of products and merchandise via social media

• Writes, thinks and creates in a variety of tones of voice.

• Intimately familiar with social media scheduling and analytics platforms

• Graphic design and video editing skills (Adobe Creative Cloud, CapCut or similar)

• Use of Asana or similar project management tool

• Can commit to working a minimum of 20 weekends across the race season, with days off in the week for any weekends worked.

• Lives in London and can commute to East London at least three times a week.

• Has the right to live and work in the UK.

• Experience in sport or with a high profile athlete highly desirable. 

Your benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience.

• 20 days of annual leave plus a minimum of 5 days leave over Christmas and New Year.

• 1 extra fully paid day off for your birthday.

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days from home.

• Additional work from home days available on request.

How To Apply

If this role excites you, please email your CV and covering letter via 'Apply Now' with the subject Social Media Manager.

To be considered, candidates must have the right to work in the UK and live in London.

We can’t wait to hear from you.