Temp Manager, Social & Influencer Marketing - Lip Lab

kendo; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Downtown San Francisco office access

Job summary

Lip Lab, a Kendo brand, seeks a highly organized TEMP Manager, Social & Influencer Marketing to lead day-to-day social media and influencer strategy.

The role sits at the intersection of social, content, UGC, and creator partnerships, coordinating with the PR and Media teams to activate campaigns across owned, earned, and paid channels. The ideal candidate blends strategic thinking with hands-on content creation and community management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of marketing experience in beauty or lifestyle.
• Proven experience managing brand social media channels.
• Experience developing and managing UGC or creator programming; experience with Skeepers is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of TikTok, Instagram, and the evolving creator and social media landscape.
• Experience working with influencers and talent, including creator identification, outreach, partnership management.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day management of Lip Lab’s social media channels, including content publishing, calendar management, community management, and ongoing channel optimization.
• Manage the execution of the social content calendar, ensuring content is published accurately and on schedule.
• Create and publish social-first content as needed, while primarily leveraging and maximizing content generated through Lip Lab’s UGC and creator programming.
• Identify opportunities to repurpose and optimize existing creator, UGC, campaign, and brand content for organic social.
• Actively engage with the Lip Lab community through comments, messages, and other community management opportunities.

Skills

Social media strategy

Creator partnerships

UGC programming

Influencer marketing

Content creation

Project management

Tools

Skeepers

Job description

ABOUT KENDO

Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group. A play on the words “can do”, Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.

Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring and innovative. A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail and direct-to-consumer partnerships. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:

• “Can Do” Spirit: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals
• Advocacy, Diversity, and Inclusion: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces so everyone’s voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.
• Storytelling: We tell authentic stories like no, one else. It’s our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.
• Resilience: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever- constant, and agility is our strength.
• Product Excellence: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.

The salary range for this temp position is $52.00 - $62.50 per hour. Offered salary is dependent upon experience and San Francisco location. This is a hybrid role based in our downtown San Francisco office – Tues through Thursday in-office, with Monday and Friday remote.

The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Fenty Eau de Parfum, Fenty Hair, Ole Henriksen, Lip Lab.

SUMMARY

Lip Lab is seeking a highly organized, creative, and culturally plugged-in TEMP Manager, Social & Influencer Marketing to support the day-to-day execution of our social media and influencer marketing strategy.

This role will sit at the intersection of social, content, influencer marketing, UGC, talent partnerships, and TikTok Shop, helping bring Lip Lab’s monthly marketing plans to life across owned and earned channels.

The ideal candidate is both strategic and highly hands‑on—comfortable managing social channels and communities, identifying and activating creators, coordinating UGC programming, and working cross-functionally to ensure the best content is being leveraged across organic and paid media. This person should have a strong understanding of the creator landscape, a pulse on emerging social trends, and the ability to independently manage multiple workstreams in a fast‑paced environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Social Media & Community Management

• Own the day-to-day management of Lip Lab’s social media channels, including content publishing, calendar management, community management, and ongoing channel optimization.
• Manage the execution of the social content calendar, ensuring content is published accurately and on schedule.
• Create and publish social-first content as needed, while primarily leveraging and maximizing content generated through Lip Lab’s UGC and creator programming.
• Identify opportunities to repurpose and optimize existing creator, UGC, campaign, and brand content for organic social.
• Actively engage with the Lip Lab community through comments, messages, and other community management opportunities.
• Monitor social trends, platform updates, and cultural moments to identify opportunities for Lip Lab to participate in relevant and authentic ways.
• Partner with internal teams to ensure social content supports broader marketing priorities, launches, and key brand moments.

UGC & Creator Programming

• Lead the day-to-day management of Lip Lab’s UGC programming through Skeepers, including creator briefing, content coordination, asset management, and program optimization.
• Develop clear and compelling creator briefs that inspire high‑quality, social-first content aligned with Lip Lab’s brand and marketing priorities.
• Review incoming UGC content and identify the strongest assets for use across organic social, paid media, and other marketing channels.
• Partner closely with the Media team to identify and deliver high-performing creator and UGC assets that can be incorporated into paid media plans.
• Maintain a strong understanding of what content is performing and apply learnings to future creator briefs and programming.

Influencer & PR Support

• Partner closely with Lip Lab’s PR agency to execute monthly marketing plans, with a particular focus onFlavor of the Monthand other key brand moments.
• Support influencer gifting and seeding initiatives, including coordination and execution through TikTok Shop, instore bookings, etc.
• Help identify relevant creators and influencers for brand initiatives, campaigns, and cultural moments.
• Conduct creator outreach and manage communications throughout the partnership process.
• Support talent contracting and coordination, ensuring partnerships are executed smoothly and in alignment with campaign objectives.
• Maintain strong organization across creator outreach, partnerships, deliverables, timelines, and approvals.
• Bring forward new creator opportunities, emerging talent, and culturally relevant partnership ideas.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Reporting

• Work closely with broader team to ensure integrated execution across key initiatives.
• Help ensure strong content and creator assets are being shared and leveraged across earned, owned, and paid channels.
• Track and report on key social, creator, and UGC activity, identifying learnings and opportunities to optimize future programming.
• Maintain clear organization across content assets, creator deliverables, partnership timelines, and monthly marketing priorities.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of marketing experience with at least 2-3 years of experience in social media, influencer marketing, creator partnerships, or a related field, preferably within beauty, lifestyle, fashion, or another highly social-first consumer category.
• Proven experience managing brand social media channels, including content publishing, community management, and day-to-day channel operations.
• Experience developing and managing UGC or creator programming; experience with Skeepers is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of TikTok, Instagram, and the evolving creator and social media landscape.
• Experience working with influencers and talent, including creator identification, outreach, partnership management, and contracting.
• TikTok Shop experience is preferred, particularly experience with creator gifting, affiliate programming, or creator activation.
• Strong creative instincts and the ability to identify compelling, high‑performing social content.
• Comfortable creating content when needed, including filming and editing simple, social-first assets.
• Highly organized with the ability to independently manage multiple projects, timelines, and stakeholders.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with experience working across internal teams, agencies, creators, and external partners.
• Self-starter mentality with the ability to operate independently while remaining highly collaborative.