Social Media Manager

Wanderboat AI; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Wanderboat is seeking a hands-on Social Media Manager to own and operate our brand channels across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts, while supporting LinkedIn, X, and emerging platforms as needed. Plan, create, publish, and optimize platform-native content around dining, travel, local discovery, lifestyle, and AI-powered experiences.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of hands-on social media experience for a consumer-facing product, strong video/editing skills, and a proven ability to move

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on social media experience for a consumer-facing product or brand.
• Experience managing business-owned social channels, especially TikTok and Instagram.
• Strong short-form video, copywriting, storytelling, and visual-content skills.
• Ability to independently take content from idea to publication.
• Hands-on filming and video editing experience.
• Understanding of social trends, platform formats, audience behavior, and organic growth.
• Ability to use performance data to improve content.
• Organized, proactive, and comfortable in a fast-moving startup.

Responsibilities

• Own Wanderboat’s social channels and manage day-to-day strategy across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn, and X.
• Create engaging social-first content around dining, local discovery, travel, lifestyle, and AI-powered experiences.
• Handle full content workflow from research to posting, including scripting, hooks, captions, filming, editing, and thumbnails.
• Develop recurring formats and maintain a library of footage, templates, hooks, captions, and evergreen content.
• Track performance metrics and run experiments to optimize topics, hooks, formats, and posting strategy.

Skills

Social media

Content creation

Short-form video

Copywriting

Video editing

Analytics

Startup environment

UGC management

Creative storytelling

Tools

CapCut

Premiere Pro

Final Cut Pro

Canva

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Later

Buffer

Hootsuite

Sprout Social

Job description

Wanderboat is an AI map search for local discovery — think “TikTok meets Google Maps,” designed for real-world exploration. We combine our POI search engine, multi-step Thinking Agent, and Vision Understanding model to see the world the way you do. No walls of text — just curated feeds + a map that surface the best dining, shows, attractions, hotels, and experiences wherever you are.

We’re post-Series A (~$100M post), backed by top-tier investors, and seeing breakout traction in NYC, SF, Chicago, and LA with more than 6M organic monthly visits.

We believe the next generation of search and recommendation should come from great content instead of garbage websites. That’s why we built our own first-party content index, search, and personalization system. Wanderboat is a first-of-its-kind AI-powered map search and local vibe-driven community, not a wrapper on APIs.

If you’re excited about AI, culture, visual storytelling, and shaping how people discover the real world, we want to talk.

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Social Media Manager to own and operate Wanderboat’s brand social channels, primarily across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts, while supporting LinkedIn, X, and emerging platforms as needed.

You will plan, create, publish, and optimize platform-native content around dining, travel, local discovery, lifestyle, and AI-powered experiences. This role is ideal for someone with strong creative judgment who can move quickly from idea to execution and use performance data to improve content.

What You’ll Do

1) Own Wanderboat’s Social Channels

• Manage the day-to-day strategy and execution of Wanderboat’s social channels across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn, and X.
• Maintain an organized content calendar, publishing schedule, and consistent posting cadence.
• Tailor content to each platform’s formats, audience behavior, trends, and distribution mechanics.

2) Create Social-First Content

• Create engaging content around dining, local discovery, travel, city exploration, lifestyle experiences, and AI-powered discovery.
• Own the full content workflow, including research, ideation, scripting, hooks, captions, filming, editing, thumbnails, publishing, and iteration.
• Turn product updates, user stories, local insights, and longer-form materials into platform-native short-form content.
• Capture and edit content featuring product demos, restaurants, city experiences, user scenarios, team moments, and relevant trends.
• Be comfortable working behind the camera and appearing in content when appropriate.

3) Build Repeatable Content Formats and Series

• Develop recurring series and platform-native formats that can be tested, refined, and scaled.
• Maintain an organized library of footage, templates, hooks, captions, UGC, creator assets, and evergreen content.
• Build lightweight workflows that improve content quality, production speed, and consistency.

4) Support Social Engagement and UGC

• Manage comments, replies, mentions, reposts, and other day-to-day audience interactions.
• Source and curate high-quality UGC and creator content, securing permission before reposting or featuring it.
• Turn audience feedback and social insights into actionable recommendations for content, marketing, product, and growth.

5) Track Performance and Improve Content

• Track key metrics such as reach, engagement rate, watch time, retention, saves, shares, comments, follower growth, and publishing cadence.
• Summarize weekly and monthly learnings and use them to improve topics, hooks, captions, formats, and posting strategy.
• Run lightweight content experiments and continuously optimize based on performance data.

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of hands-on social media experience for a consumer-facing product, brand, or media company.
• Experience managing business-owned social channels, especially TikTok and Instagram.
• Strong short-form video, copywriting, storytelling, and visual-content skills.
• Ability to independently take content from idea to publication.
• Hands-on experience with filming and video editing.
• Strong understanding of social trends, platform formats, audience behavior, and organic growth.
• Ability to use performance data to improve content.
• Organized, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Interest in food, travel, local discovery, lifestyle, AI products, or consumer apps.

Preferred

• Experience with consumer apps, lifestyle brands, travel, food, hospitality, or local discovery.
• Experience working with UGC, creators, influencers, or community content.
• Familiarity with CapCut, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, or Figma.
• Understanding of TikTok and YouTube search, keywords, captions, hashtags, and social SEO.
• Experience using tools such as Later, Buffer, Hootsuite, or Sprout Social.