Social Media Manager- Cactus & Camel

Cactus & Camel; United States; Remote; USD 14,000 - 19,000; Full time

Job summary

Cactus & Camel is a digital magazine covering the world of electronic music with a focus on Afro House to Indie Dance and beyond. You will source content, curate posts, secure collaborations, and publish on schedule, shaping what we showcase and how we present it.

You will work with founders, artists, event organizers, labels and partner pages, filtering the best content to fit our distinct voice. This facilitator role emphasizes curation over creation, with a fast-moving output schedule.

Qualifications

• You live in music and can name who’s playing where this weekend.
• 2+ years running social for a music, events, nightlife or culture brand or a page with real traction.
• Proven Instagram-first execution: carousels, reels, collabs; TikTok/YouTube Shorts is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Sourcing content daily: DJ/label/venue pages, trends, what the scene talks about.
• Identify videographers at events and secure high-quality footage (reels, carousels, UGC).
• Manage incoming content into Dropbox and keep Notion trackers current.
• Build carousels in Canva; trim videos for IG, TikTok, Shorts; craft headlines and captions.

Skills

Instagram

Video editing

Outreach

Content sourcing

Self-motivated

Tools

Canva

Dropbox

Notion

Instagram

TikTok

Job description

Full-time · Remote — Europe/Middle East· ~$1500 USD/Month ·

About us

Cactus & Camel is a digital magazine built around the world of electronic music. Think of us as the Hypebeast of electronic music: a modern media ecosystem sitting at the intersection of music, artists, fashion and lifestyle - blending curation, culture and real-world experiences, not just content.

Our editorial focus sits across Afro House, Melodic House & Techno, Tech House, Minimal House & Tech, and Indie Dance. We are not a generic music blog. We exist to document and amplify what is happening in the scene right now: the artists, the events, the trends.

The role

This is the role that owns our output. You run the page day to day - sourcing the content, building the posts, securing the collabs, publishing on schedule, and shaping what we do next. You'll work directly with the founders, with artists, event organizers, labels, promoters and partner pages.

It is a facilitator-and-curator role more than a creator role. You are not filming or producing from scratch. You are finding the best content that already exists, filtering it ruthlessly to our taste, and bringing it out in a format that feels unmistakably Cactus & Camel.

What you'll own

Content sourcing & outreach

• Daily scene research: DJ, label, venue, promoter and competitor pages - what's happening, what's trending, what the scene is talking about

• Identifying videographers and creators at events and reaching out to secure original, high-quality footage (reels and carousels, UGC and multicam)

  • Working the 24-hour window on major events (Keinemusik, Black Coffee, festival weekends) where speed decides whether we get the moment or miss it

• Managing incoming content into our Dropbox bank and keeping Notion trackers current

Content creation

• Building carousels in Canva: cover slides, hook selection, video trimming, artist/location/energy sequencing, accurate track IDs

• Cutting reels for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts

• Writing creative headlines and captions in our format

Publishing & partnerships

• Choosing and pitching collab pages by genre relevance, lining up backups, coordinating simultaneous acceptance so nothing sits live waiting

• Coordinating collab posts with artists ahead of time

• Publishing to schedule (posting windows are in Eastern Time 9AM - 3PM EST), tagging, Stories reposts

Recurring formats

• Top 5 Releases of the Week - tracking upcoming releases, selection, post build, Stories, Spotify playlist upkeep

• Release of the Month - community poll, partner collaboration, final build

• Radar - editorial selection of releases we want to support

• Special posts - spotting what's moving in the scene and finding the angle to tell that story in our voice, through whichever editorial format fits it best

Strategy & communication

• Owning the content calendar and adapting it to what's actually happening in the scene

• Client and partner communication, and bringing ideas on scheduling and direction

• Watching what performs, why it performs, and feeding that back into what we make

The weekly output

• Monday – Special post (high-performing content with virality potential)

• Tuesday – Event or artist recap

• Wednesday – Event or artist recap

• Thursday – Set recap

• Friday – Release of the Week

• Saturday – Promotion post

• Sunday – Top 5 Releases of the Week

Plus 3–5 reels AND Tik Tok + Youtube Shorts per week, monthly formats (Top 5 of the Month, Radar, Top 5 Unreleased IDs with a guest artist), and extras like giveaways and news posts. The schedule flexes with season and availability.

Who we're looking for

• You live in this music. You can name who's playing where this weekend, which IDs people are hunting, and which label just signed what. This is not learnable from a brief.

• 2+ years running social for a music, events, nightlife or culture brand = or a page of your own with real traction. Show us what you've built.

• Proven Instagram-first execution: carousels, reels, collabs, Stories. TikTok and YouTube Shorts experience is a strong plus.

• Comfortable in Canva and fast at cutting and trimming video for short-form.

• Genuinely good at outreach. A large part of this job is DMing strangers and getting a yes. You're persistent, polite and hard to ignore.

• Detail-obsessed. Track names spelled exactly as on Spotify, correct labels, correct tags, right slide order. Precision here is not admin - it's credibility with artists.

• Self-driven. Nobody will chase you. You see, think and act, and you communicate early when something's at risk.

• Taste you can defend. You should never submit content you wouldn't personally stop scrolling for.

Nice to have: existing relationships with videographers, promoters or artist teams; experience with paid partnerships or client deliverables; a second language.

Tools

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Canva, Dropbox, Notion, WhatsApp, Spotify, Soundcloud.

Practicalities

• Hours: Full-time. Output and deadlines matter more than hours logged, but the posting schedule is fixed and our core coordination window is 9AM–3PM EST.

• Location: Remote — Europe/Middle East/North America

• Compensation: $1500 USD/Month

• Start date: 01/11/2026