Social Media Executive

Proteus Digital; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holidays including bank and a

Birthday off

Training budget

Office gym

Monthly socials

Job summary

Proteus Digital in Cardiff is seeking a proactive Social Media Content Assistant to manage captions, carousels and scheduling for multiple client accounts. You’ll craft LinkedIn content in each client’s voice and compile monthly performance reports to show what works.

After a 3-month probation, you’ll take on more ownership of client accounts with a clear path toward an Account Manager role. This full-time position is office-based at The Maltings, Cardiff.

Qualifications

• Based in Cardiff, with a genuine desire to work from our office at The Maltings
• A real passion for social media. You use it, you think about it and you understand how it works
• Strong writing skills, and the ability to switch your tone for different clients
• Some graphic design experience. Canva is fine, Adobe is a bonus
• A strong eye for detail. Typos and missed posts don't slip past you
• The ability to manage multiple clients and tasks without dropping the ball
• Experience in a social media, marketing or agency environment
• Experience writing for LinkedIn
• An understanding of content strategy and performance metrics

Responsibilities

• Writing captions for client content across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn, in each client's tone of voice
• Creating carousels, graphics and static posts in Canva or Adobe
• Scheduling and manually posting content across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn for all clients
• Writing LinkedIn posts for clients and their founders, so they sound like them and not like a robot
• Pulling together monthly performance reports, and understanding what the numbers mean
• Researching trends, hooks and formats, and what's performing and why
• Keeping up with platform and algorithm changes across Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn
• Working closely with our Account Manager to keep every client on track

Skills

Strong writing skills

Experience writing for LinkedIn

Content strategy understanding

Multi-client management

Attention to detail

Agency/marketing experience

Canva experience

Adobe experience

Tools

Canva

Adobe

Job description

Proteus Digital is a human-first social media marketing agency based in Cardiff. We build real, human, performance-led content for ambitious businesses through monthly campaigns on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and LinkedIn. We work with clients all over the world, from Cardiff to the US and Australia, on social media strategy, content production, Meta ads and website builds. We're a young team, we move quickly and we're growing fast. This isn't a big agency where you disappear into a department. Everyone here has real responsibility and real impact from day one.

We're in this for the long game and we want someone who is too.

There are eight things that matter more to us than your CV:

• You fail fast and build back faster. You try things, they don't work, you learn and you move. You don't freeze up and you definitely don't blame other people.
• You're accountable for your wins and your losses. You own your results, good and bad. And you don't make excuses!
• You challenge everything, including the founder. We don't want yes people. If you think something is wrong, say it. If you've got a better idea, bring it. The best work comes from people who push back.
• You're kind, not just nice. There's a difference. Nice avoids hard conversations. Kind has them because it's the right thing to do.
• You treat it like it's your business. You care about how clients are doing, you notice things that could be better, and you act on them without being asked.
• You embrace new technology. AI, new tools, new platforms. You're curious about all of it and you're willing to experiment.
• You want to be in the office. We work together, in person, at The Maltings in Cardiff. It's a huge part of how we work and why we work well.
• You're in it for the long term. This isn't a stepping stone. We want someone who wants to grow with Proteus and build their career here.

The Role

You'll be the engine behind our client accounts. Reporting to our Account Manager, you'll write the captions, build the carousels, schedule the content and make sure every client's month goes out exactly as planned. You'll also write LinkedIn content for our clients and pull together the monthly reports that show them what's working.

You'll start with a 3-month probation period, where you'll learn how Proteus operates, how we think about content and why every post we publish has a job to do. After probation, you'll take on more ownership of your own client accounts, with a clear path towards an Account Manager role as we grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Writing captions for client content across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn, in each client's tone of voice
• Creating carousels, graphics and static posts in Canva or Adobe
• Scheduling and manually posting content across Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn for all clients
• Writing LinkedIn posts for clients and their founders, so they sound like them and not like a robot
• Pulling together monthly performance reports, and understanding what the numbers mean
• Researching trends, hooks and formats, and what's performing and why
• Keeping up with platform and algorithm changes across Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn
• Working closely with our Account Manager to keep every client on track

Skills Required

We don't expect you to arrive knowing everything. We expect you to arrive wanting to learn everything.

• Based in Cardiff, with a genuine desire to work from our office at The Maltings
• A real passion for social media. You use it, you think about it and you understand how it works
• Strong writing skills, and the ability to switch your tone for different clients
• Some graphic design experience. Canva is fine, Adobe is a bonus
• A strong eye for detail. Typos and missed posts don't slip past you
• The ability to manage multiple clients and tasks without dropping the ball
• Experience in a social media, marketing or agency environment
• Experience writing for LinkedIn
• An understanding of content strategy and performance metrics

What You Will Gain

In this position, you will:

• Have a clear and realistic path to an Account Manager role as the agency grows
• Get a pay review at the end of your 3-month probation
• Be mentored directly by the founder and our Account Manager, with real investment in your growth as a creative and a strategist
• Work on a wide variety of brands, from health clinics, property and trades to coaches and tech companies, across the UK, the US, Australia and Europe
• Gain hands on experience in paid social and attribution, seeing exactly how content turns into enquiries for our clients
• Get access to premium AI tools, including Claude, and the freedom to experiment with them
• Get 28 days' holiday including bank holidays, plus your birthday off every year
• Get a training budget for courses that make you better at what you do
• Have the opportunity and support to grow your personal brand alongside the role
• Join a fast-growing agency at an exciting stage. You won't be inheriting a finished product, you'll be helping build one
• Work from a brilliant office at The Maltings in Cardiff, a creative, collaborative workspace with a café on site and a free gym
• Be part of a small, tight-knit team with monthly socials, and appear in our internal series, The Agency
• Understand how a modern digital agency operates, grows and wins

Additional Information

Location: The Maltings, East Tyndall Street, Cardiff CF24 5EA. Office based. This role is not remote.

Reports to: Account Manager

Hours: Full time, 32 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary: £23,000 to £25,000 depending on experience

Start date: Monday 11th January 2027

Applications close on 30th November 2026. We reserve the right to close this role early if the right person is found.