Position Summary
The Senior Manager, Social Media at JetBlue is a dynamic, social-savvy leader responsible for overseeing innovative social media strategies that enhance JetBlues brand presence across its social media platforms.
This role involves managing a talented in-house social media team, driving creative content ideation, production, reporting, and community engagement to establish a best-in-class social media program. The Senior Manager will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to align social media efforts with broader marketing and corporate goals, leveraging trends and data insights to optimize performance and engagement.
Essential Responsibilities
- Develop and lead execution of a strategic vision for building and maintaining a best-in-class social media presence for JetBlue
- Manage organic social media team and applicable external agency partners fostering a culture of collaborative creativity and social-first thinking to elevate JetBlue’s social media presence
- Oversee development and management of organic social media strategy and content for a wide range of social media channels including but not limited to LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, and TikTok
- Direct daily and long-term content planning, ensuring alignment across content priorities and team initiatives
- Provide strategic oversight of creation and delivery of social media quarterly and monthly plans, timelines, messaging calendars, and key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Oversee relationships with internal and external partners (i.e. external agencies, Product, Loyalty, Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Customer Support etc.) to drive strong integration and alignment with all owned JetBlue marketing channels, including social and content strategies
- Proactively identify strategic ways to align JetBlue with cultural and platform-specific moments to drive engagement and awareness
- Stay keenly aware of social media trends, channel functionality updates, and emerging opportunities
- Foster a data-driven culture to use data and trends to uncover opportunities to inform strategic direction for social media program along with channel strategy
- Report out on results of social media strategy and performance to senior leadership regularly
- Serve as the social media expert within JetBlue, maintain knowledge of all platform updates, best practices, trends, and analytics
- Lead cross-functional working group along with Corporate Communications and Safety Management System (SMS) teams on community management and monitoring of social media conversations around JetBlue
- Guide development of social media-specific visual design and copy guidelines and standards in coordination with brand team to ensure fit under company-wide brand and visual identity guidelines
- In collaboration with marketing peers, determine social channel extensions for sponsorships, promotions, paid media, and executions of advertising campaigns to ensure cohesive marketing approach
- Lead development of user generated content program and influencer strategy and implementation across social and owned marketing channels
- Ensure executive alignment with social media content as needed with senior leaders and key cross-functional stakeholders for high-profile content
- Manage direct reports, guiding their career and development fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration
- Manage social media budget
- Partner with Paisly to develop strategy and content plan for JetBlue Vacations accounts, in alignment with overarching JetBlue master brand social strategy
- Scope of social media team includes marketing content strategy, ideation and creation, posting, community management, and reporting
- Take a significant role in the development of crewmembers to support their engagement, growth, and goal achievement