Manager, Social & Creator Marketing

CHAGEE (CA) LLC; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

401K with company match

Yearly bonus opportunity

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

On-site fitness center and wellness

Job summary

CHAGEE USA is seeking a Manager, Social & Creator Marketing to own the strategy and day-to-day stewardship of CHAGEE USA social channels, content ecosystem, creator program, and community engagement. This role translates brand, product, and teahouse priorities into culturally resonant storytelling across platforms.

This individual contributor role blends strategy and execution, requiring a strong creative point of view, ability to build trusted creator relationships, and data-driven decision

Qualifications

• Experience building organic social strategies and content calendars.
• Strong ability to translate brand priorities into platform-native storytelling.
• Proven creator marketing experience from strategy to activation and measurement.

Responsibilities

• Own social strategy, content calendar, and annual roadmap across platforms.
• Lead development of social-first ideas across campaigns and launches.
• Direct content creation, briefs, and collaboration with creators and agencies to produce distinctive work.

Skills

Social media strategy

Creator marketing

Brand storytelling

Community engagement

Cross-functional leadership

Analytics & measurement

Content development

Fast-paced execution

Partnership management

Multicultural audience experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

CHAGEE (pronounced CHAH-jee) is a modern teahouse with more than 7,500 locations globally. We are a global brand with proud roots in Yunnan, committed to bringing people together through tea. CHAGEE is awakening a modern tea movement, grounded in authentic heritage, fueled by cutting edge innovation, and crafted to nourish body and spirit.

Overview

Elevate your career with CHAGEE as Manager, Social & Creator Marketing. Through our stores across China, Asia Pacific, and the United States, we serve a staggering 100 million cups of tea monthly. CHAGEE is excited to expand its presence in the US market. This is your chance to be part of an exhilarating journey as we deliver the taste of authentic tea culture to America.

The Role

The Manager, Social & Creator Marketing will own the strategy and day-to-day stewardship of CHAGEE USA social channels, content ecosystem, creator program, and community engagement. This person will translate brand, product, and teahouse priorities into culturally resonant storytelling that feels distinctive to CHAGEE and native to each platform. This is an individual contributor role for someone who can move fluidly between strategy and execution. The right person has a strong creative point of view, understands how culture moves, knows how to build trusted creator relationships, and uses performance signals to make the work stronger. The Modern Tea Movement starts with you. At CHAGEE, we're connecting the world through modern tea — making friends, pouring tea, and building careers along the way. Join a team rooted in tradition, fueled by purpose, and scaling a global movement across North America.

What You Will Own

• Social strategy: Set the owned social vision, channel roles, audience strategy, editorial priorities, and annual roadmap across current and emerging platforms.
• Content leadership: Build the content calendar and lead the development of social first ideas across campaigns, launches, evergreen storytelling, cultural moments, and teahouse experiences.
• Creative direction and content creation: Bring a strong social eye and clear visual point of view to every piece of content. Write strong briefs, establish the creative bar, and partner with internal creative teams, agencies, photographers, videographers, and creators to produce distinctive work. This person should also be comfortable designing, capturing, editing, and producing social content directly when needed.
• Creator marketing: Define the creator strategy across community voices, emerging talent, tastemakers, and larger partners. Lead identification, relationship development, briefing, contracting, amplification, and measurement.
• Community building: Develop programs that turn followers, members, students, and local communities into active participants and advocates for CHAGEE.
• Cultural intelligence: Identify relevant conversations, behaviors, formats, and partnerships while protecting the integrity of the brand.
• Integrated planning: Connect social and creator work to product launches, retail marketing, digital, loyalty, public relations, events, and the full teahouse consumer journey.
• Performance and learning: Define meaningful measures of success, read platform and business signals, share clear insights, and continually improve content, creator investment, and channel performance.
• Agency and budget leadership: Manage agency partners, creator investment, production resources, timelines, and budgets with clarity and accountability.
• Team building: Establish effective ways of working now and help shape the future social and creator organization as CHAGEE grows.

What You Bring

• Approximately 5 to 10 years of relevant experience across social media, content, creator marketing, community, or integrated brand marketing.
• Meaningful brand side experience within a culturally relevant consumer, lifestyle, hospitality, beauty, wellness, retail, or food and beverage business.
• Demonstrated ownership of an organic social strategy and content calendar, with the judgment to balance long term brand building and timely cultural participation.
• Strong creator marketing experience across strategy, relationship building, briefing, negotiation, activation, amplification, and measurement.
• A sharp creative eye and the ability to evaluate an idea, improve a brief, direct content, and protect a consistent brand point of view.
• Comfort moving from strategic planning into hands on execution in a fast growing environment.
• Strong cross functional leadership, communication, agency management, and prioritization skills.
• Fluency in social analytics and the ability to connect engagement, conversation, audience growth, traffic, trial, and business outcomes.
• Experience building culturally inclusive work for diverse audiences.
• Multicultural or Asian American audience experience is valuable.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

What Success Looks Like

CHAGEE has a clear and differentiated social point of view, not simply a posting calendar. Content quality and consistency improve while the team becomes faster and more culturally responsive. Creators operate as trusted storytellers and community partners, not only as paid distribution. Product launches and teahouse moments are amplified through cohesive owned, creator, and community storytelling. The function has a practical measurement framework that informs decisions and connects social activity to broader brand and business priorities.

What We Offer

• Hybrid work schedule for a balanced life
• 401K with company match to secure your future
• Yearly bonus opportunity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• On-site fitness center and wellness programs
• Exclusive discounts at our tea locations, theme parks, and gyms
• Generous paid time off starting at 15 days, plus 7 federal holidays
• Opportunities for continuous education and scholarships
• Income protection including Disability, Life, and AD&D insurance
• Bereavement leave for those difficult times

The estimated total cash compensation for this position is $101,400 — $152,250, inclusive of base salary and estimated bonus. Final compensation will be determined based on the selected candidate and may vary depending on factors including (but not limited to): relevant knowledge and experience, skills, education, certifications, overall qualifications, and your specific work location.

CHAGEE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

At CHAGEE, our people are at the heart of the brand. Every role plays an important part in how we serve our customers and grow the business. We focus on building a workplace where people feel supported, respected, and able to do their best work. We value teamwork, open communication, and accountability, and we encourage continuous learning through training and development opportunities. As we continue to grow across the region, our team members grow with us and take on new challenges and opportunities along the way.