Social Media Strategist

Creative Nuts; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 840,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Nuts is seeking a Social Media Manager (Mid Level) to shape how brands think, plan, and win on social. You’ll own strategy across client accounts, build a team of social media executives, and help bring new clients through the door.

If you have opinions on making brand social more memorable and the presence to win in pitches, this is the role for you. You’ll lead strategy sessions, build content pillars, and guide a fast-moving team through client work and new business opportunities.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience in social media strategy, ideally in an agency managing multiple brands.
• Experience in training, mentoring, or leading junior team members.
• Experience contributing to pitch decks and new business conversations.
• Strong portfolio of brand social work with clear thinking behind outputs.
• Deep knowledge of Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and X.
• Sharp writing and presentation skills for decks and pitches.
• Confidence presenting to clients and prospects.
• Strong grasp of brand building, content strategy, and community growth.
• Ability to build systems, checklists, and processes to speed up teams.
• Comfort balancing strategic thinking with fast-moving content demands.

Responsibilities

• Build and own social media strategies for client brands across industries.
• Translate objectives into platform-specific plans for Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and emerging platforms.
• Develop content pillars, tone-of-voice guidelines, and monthly roadmaps.
• Lead planning cycles with clients and internal teams.
• Coach the team and review content before it goes live.
• Own pipeline health: briefs, timelines, approvals, posting cadence.
• Grow executives into strategists over time.
• Partner with founders on new client pitches and social strategy sections of proposals.
• Shape scope of work, deliverables, and team structures for new accounts.

Skills

Social media strategy

Team leadership

Pitch development

Brand building

Content strategy

Presentation skills

Written communication

Project management

Job description

Creative Nuts is a creative agency building bold, thoughtful, and culturally sharp work for brands that want to show up differently. We sit at the intersection of design, content, and strategyand social is where a lot of that work comes alive. We're a small, high-trust team that ships fast, argues about craft, and treats every brand like it's our own.

About the Role

We're hiring a Social Media Manager(Mid Level) to shape how our brands think, plan, and win on social, build the team that executes it, and help bring new clients through the door. This is not a posting-and-scheduling role. You'll own the strategy layer across multiple client accounts, structure the team of social media executives who bring those strategies to life, and sit at the table when we're pitching for new business.

You'll be the person who turns a brand's ambition into a social plan that moves numbers, the person who turns a group of executives into a team that ships reliably, and the person clients meet when they're deciding whether to work with us. If you have opinions on why most brand social feels forgettable, ideas on how to fix it, and the presence to sell that thinking in a pitch room, this role is for you.

What You'll Do

Strategy and planning

• Build and own social media strategies for client brands across industries
• Translate brand and business objectives into platform-specific plans across Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and emerging platforms
• Develop content pillars, tone-of-voice guidelines, and monthly content roadmaps
• Lead monthly and quarterly planning cycles with clients and internal teams
• Bring cultural, competitive, and platform insights to every planning session
• Track performance across accounts, identify what's working, and rework what isn't

Team leadership and structure

• Build the systems, SOPs, and workflows that let the team ship consistently at scale
• Set up planning rhythms, review processes, and quality checkpoints
• Review and approve content before it goes live, and coach the team through feedback
• Own the health of the pipeline: brief clarity, timelines, approvals, and posting cadence
• Grow executives into strategists over time

New business and pitches

• Partner with founders and business leads on new client pitches
• Build the social strategy sections of pitch decks audit, opportunity, approach, and roadmap
• Shape scope of work, deliverables, and team structures for incoming accounts

What We're Looking For

• 2-3 years of experience in social media strategy, ideally in an agency setup managing multiple brands at once
• Prior experience training, mentoring, or leading junior team members even informally
• Experience contributing to pitch decks and new business conversations
• A strong portfolio of brand social work you can walk us through the thinking, not just the output
• Deep working knowledge of Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and X.
• Sharp writing and presentation skills you can build a deck and defend it in a room
• Confidence in front of clients and prospects, whether it's a review call or a pitch
• Strong grasp of brand building, content strategy, and community growth as connected disciplines
• An instinct for structure you naturally build systems, checklists, and processes that make teams faster
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with the speed reactive content demands
• Comfort working across categories B2B, consumer, lifestyle, sports, wellness, and more