Senior Social Media Manager

Babylist; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work stipend

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Generous paid parental leave

PTO & holidays

401(k) with company match

AI tools like Claude & ChatGPT

Job summary

Babylist is seeking a hands-on social video producer to own the creation of platform-native content for TikTok and other short-form channels. You will storyboard, shoot, edit, and post daily from the SoHo showroom, working with creators and partners to drive authentic engagement.

You’ll bring strong trend fluency, a deep understanding of audience needs, and the ability to translate performance data into the next wave of content.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to create platform-native short-form video for consumer brands.
• Experience with branded content and influencer/creator partnerships.
• Ability to analyze performance data and adapt content strategy.

Responsibilities

• Storyboard, shoot, and edit social video content daily.
• Lead creativity on TikTok, including trendspotting and creator collaboration.
• Develop emotionally resonant content for expecting families.
• Collaborate with partnerships, editorial, and growth teams to align social with business goals.
• Turn audience feedback into iterative content decisions.

Skills

TikTok native

Hands-on video creation

Creator partnerships

Instagram & Facebook fluency

Trend fluency

Data-driven

AI-assisted workflow

Agile communication

Audience empathy

Education

Tools

AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT)

Job description

This role sits on the team that owns Babylist's day-to-day social presence, focused on social video: the content that carries the brand on TikTok and everywhere else short-form video lives. We're already the largest baby brand on TikTok at 1.4M followers, and the mandate now is to deepen engagement, not just grow reach. You'll report to the Director, Social & Creator Marketing, who sets the overall social strategy. Your job is to make the content that brings it to life. This is a hands-on production role, not a strategy-only one. You'll storyboard, shoot, and edit in our SoHo showroom and work directly with creator and influencer partners. There are no direct reports.

This role is remote, with regular on-site expectations at our SoHo showroom to do that production work. You'll need to live within a commutable distance of NYC so you can get there easily and on short notice.

Who You Are

• A true TikTok native. You know how organic content thrives and how to work with creators and trends in real time. You know which trends to jump on and, just as importantly, which to skip, so everything stays aligned with the brand's voice and keeps our audience's trust.
• A hands-on creator of platform-native short-form video. You've storyboarded, filmed, edited, and posted it yourself, and you want to keep doing that every day. This is the core of the job.
• You've made social video for a consumer-facing brand with a real audience. 500k+ followers, where the work had to hold up against a brand voice and a quality bar, not just get posted.
• Fluent on Instagram and Facebook alongside TikTok. You understand how video travels differently on each and how to cut for it.
• Sharp creative judgment and trend fluency. You connect what's happening in culture to what actually makes sense for the brand.
• Comfortable reading your own numbers. You look at what performed, form a point of view about why, and bring that back into the next round of content.
• Experienced with branded content and partnerships. You know what makes one land on social in a way that serves both us and the partner.
• An agile communicator who moves at the speed of social. You escape sensitive feedback, pull the right people in quickly, and make real-time calls clearly so Babylist shows up intentionally even in high-stakes moments.
• Deeply empathetic toward our audience. You understand the fears, excitement, questions, and identity shifts of pregnancy and early parenthood, and that insight makes our channels feel like a trusted, affirming space for expecting families.
• You naturally reach for AI in your work — at Babylist, every team uses AI daily. You're already using it to move faster and improve your output, and you stay curious about what's coming next.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Make the social video content. Storyboard, shoot, edit, post. This is the bulk of the role and the reason it exists.
• Act as the creative lead on TikTok: trendspotting, creator collaboration, hands-on production, and the calls on what ships.
• Create content that lands emotionally and culturally with expecting families, delivering joy, humor, empathy, and utility at the right moments.
• Work alongside brand partnerships, editorial, acquisition, and creative so social video plugs into what the rest of the business is running.
• Bring a clear read on performance into the team's reporting rhythm: what worked, what didn't, and what you'd do differently.
• Turn audience signal — DMs, comments, cultural observation — into content that builds loyalty and trust.

Why This Role

• You're not building an audience from zero. 1.4M people already follow us and show up in the comments; your work is making content worthy of an audience that's already paying attention.
• Hands-on by design. Strategy comes from the Director. The creative execution is yours. If you've been pulled off the camera and into decks, this is the way back.
• A real production space. The SoHo showroom has product, sets, and support, so you're not filming a brand's biggest channel in a conference room.
• Social video is where this brand is growing, and this is the seat closest to the work itself.

About Compensation

We use a market-based approach to compensation. The starting salary range for this role is:

$134,875 to $161,850 + target annual bonus and competitive equity

Your starting salary will be based on your location, experience, and qualifications, with increases over time tied to performance, role growth, and internal pay equity.

Who We Are

Babylist is the leading platform for expecting and new families. More than 10 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, guidance, and expert recommendations. As a modern, AI-forward tech company, Babylist has expanded from a universal registry into a full ecosystem — the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, Babylist Money, NYC and LA showrooms, branded content, and more — generating $750M in revenue in 2025. Building the generational brand in baby, Babylist is reshaping the $235B kids and baby market and helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step.

Our Ways of Working

Babylist is remote-first with team members across the U.S. and Canada who move fast, think smart, and use AI as part of how they work every day — not as an experiment, as an expectation. We come together twice a year to build the relationships behind the work, and we hire people who are genuinely excited about what's possible and prove it through how they show up.

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

Our Culture

• We work with focus and intention, then step away to recharge
• We believe in exceptional management, and we invest in the tools and the time to connect with colleagues
• We build products that positively impact millions of people's lives
• AI is part of how we work, not a side experiment. You'll have leading tools like Claude and ChatGPT from day one, with no waiting on access, so the busywork gets handled and your judgment goes where it counts

Growth & Development

• Competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
• We're committed to career progression and performance-based advancement
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
• Generous paid parental leave and PTO
• Winter Wonder Week: the whole company takes a paid week off at the end of the year, whether or not you celebrate anything, so everyone's out at once and comes back refreshed
• Remote work stipend to set up your office
• Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

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