Developer Community Social Media Lead

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Social Media Manager to own and elevate our brand presence across primary channels. You will lead editorial planning, contributor coordination, and performance analysis, collaborating with Creative Producer and Developer Relations to turn technical storytelling into engaging social content.

You will craft platform-native posts, build launch plans, and drive community engagement while leveraging AI tools to increase efficiency without compromising accuracy or brand voice.

Qualifications

• Experience owning social media for a developer-facing, infrastructure, open-source, enterprise software, or technically sophisticated brand.
• A portfolio of posts, campaigns, and social programs you personally helped create and operate.
• Excellent writing and editorial judgment.
• Technical fluency developed through software engineering, Developer Relations, technical marketing, developer content, or comparable hands‑on work.
• Familiarity with software infrastructure, distributed systems, developer tools, cloud platforms, APIs, or adjacent technical areas.
• Experience managing a multi‑channel editorial calendar and the production workflows behind it.
• The confidence to keep work moving across a collaborative organization and surface risks.
• Strong knowledge of norms, formats, and audience behavior of channels such as X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit, and developer communities.
• Experience using performance data to form hypotheses, run experiments, and change a content or channel strategy.
• Hands‑on experience using AI tools in a professional content workflow.
• Independent judgment to spot stories and carry them through publication.

Responsibilities

• Own the company’s day‑to‑day social media presence across its primary brand channels, including channel priorities, audience strategy, publishing cadence, and growth goals.
• Build and maintain a forward-looking editorial calendar that unites product launches, Developer Relations programs, creative productions, events, community stories, company moments, and industry conversations.
• Run the social production workflow from intake through publication, turning ideas into briefs, setting deadlines, coordinating drafts and assets, and managing reviews.
• Write and publish platform-native posts in the company’s voice, adapting format and depth per audience.
• Collaborate with Developer Relations to package technical stories and educational material for social distribution.
• Partner with the Creative Producer on social-first videos, carousels, campaigns, and other formats, informed by channel behavior.
• Develop launch and event plans covering pre-launch, day-of publishing, amplification, and post-launch follow‑through.
• Monitor community discussions and relevant news; route technical questions to the right experts.
• Create repeatable systems for repurposing talks, livestreams, demos, blogs, docs, podcasts, and events.
• Use AI to improve intake, drafting, repurposing, QA, scheduling, listening, and reporting; document workflows and measure impact.
• Establish a practical measurement framework for social, tracking reach, engagement, growth, traffic, and share of voice.
• Run regular performance reviews with the studio and partners, adjusting the calendar or plan as needed.
• Maintain publishing governance: permissions, approvals, accessibility, tracking, and response protocols.
• Test new channels/formats with explicit hypotheses and decide where to invest.

Skills

Portfolio of posts

Excellent writing

Technical fluency

Software infrastructure knowledge

Editorial calendar management

Persistence across teams

Channel knowledge

Data-driven decisions

AI tools in workflow

Independent judgment

Tools

AI tools

Automation tooling

Social publishing platforms

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Social Media Manager to own and elevate our brand presence across primary channels. You will lead editorial planning, contributor coordination, and performance analysis, collaborating with Creative Producer and Developer Relations to turn technical storytelling into engaging social content.

You will craft platform-native posts, build launch plans, and drive community engagement while leveraging AI tools to increase efficiency without compromising accuracy or brand voice.