Social Media Manager

Em360Tech; Remote; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic tech media company in South Africa is seeking a Social Media Manager to enhance its B2B presence. You will be responsible for managing and optimizing social media channels, specifically LinkedIn and YouTube, while crafting engaging content that resonates with enterprise audiences. The ideal candidate should have strong writing skills, hands-on experience with various platforms, and a keen understanding of the tech landscape. This role offers substantial growth potential within a supportive and collaborative team.

Benefits

Flexible work schedule

Collaborative team environment

Opportunity for international collaboration

Qualifications

• Solid B2B experience and strong tech experience.
• Ability to create structured content calendars and execute channel-specific strategies.
• Competent in analytics, A/B testing, and performance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Daily management of social channels with a focus on LinkedIn and YouTube.
• Publishing, scheduling, and optimizing content across multiple platforms.
• Analyzing trends and delivering clear monthly reports with recommendations.

Skills

Excellent short-form writing skills for B2B tech audiences

Strong hands-on experience with LinkedIn and YouTube

Experience using social scheduling tools

Strong editorial judgement

Ability to adapt content to platform-specific needs

Education

Social media marketing or analytics certification

SEO or digital marketing certification

Tools

ClickUp

Google Analytics

SEMrush

Canva

Job description

EMTech is looking for a Social Media Manager who actually understands how to run social in a B2B tech environment. And we don't mean the "three posts a day and manifest engagement" type. We want someone who understands enterprise audiences, thinks strategically, reads the room (aka platform) properly and knows how to translate complex tech content into short-form social that performs consistently. You'll be working across LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Spotify, and the usual social mix, supporting podcasts, videocasts, reports, and editorial content. If you can write clean, confident captions, adapt content to each platform, track what's working without needing to be handheld, and stay flexible when timelines shift, you'll fit in well here.

• Start Date: As soon as we find the right person
• Industry: Enterprise Tech Media
• Seniority: Mid to Senior (depending on experience)
• Salary: 33, ZAR (Depending on Experience)

What You'll Own

• Daily management of EMTech's social channels, with a core focus on LinkedIn and YouTube.
• Publishing, scheduling, and optimising content across LinkedIn, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, Spotify, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
• Repurposing long-form content into high-performing social assets.
• Supporting our podcast and videocast outputs with strong campaign execution.
• Ensuring a unified brand voice across every platform.
• Tracking performance, analysing trends, and delivering clear monthly reports with recommendations.
• Spotting opportunities for engagement, outreach, and community building.
• Working closely with the content, design, and video teams to deliver briefs and maintain cohesive workflows.
• Staying on top of platform changes, new content formats, and audience behaviour shifts.
• Supporting sponsored content and aligning social pushes with commercial goals.

What You Bring

Platform Skills

• Strong hands‑on experience with LinkedIn and YouTube.
• You understand Shorts, algorithm pacing, and platform tone.
• Experience publishing and optimising podcast content on Spotify, including tags, descriptions, and platform‑native formatting.
• Strong working knowledge of Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
• Bonus points if you've worked with Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, or TikTok business accounts.
• Experience using social scheduling tools.
• If you know Metricool, great.
• If you know something better, show us why.

Content and Writing

• Excellent short‑form writing skills for B2B tech audiences.
• Ability to write captions, hooks, CTAs, and platform‑specific copy that drives performance.
• Strong editorial judgement and an eye for converting insights into shareable social content.
• Comfortable creating or briefing graphics, carousels, and basic video snippets.

Tech and Industry Understanding

• Solid B2B experience and strong tech experience.
• Enterprise tech knowledge is a big advantage.
• You understand topics like AI, cybersecurity, data, cloud, and infrastructure well enough to speak about them accurately and confidently.

Strategy, SEO, and Analytics

• Good understanding of SEO principles and how they map to social.
• Experience with competitor monitoring, trend spotting, and social listening tools.
• Ability to create structured content calendars and execute channel‑specific strategies.
• Familiarity with AEO / GEO is a plus.
• Competent in analytics, A/B testing, and performance reporting.

Soft Skills

• This role requires someone who is genuinely flexible and fluid.
• Many of our timelines shift based on when clients reply, approve content, or update deliverables.
• You need to be able to adapt, reprioritise, and keep momentum without dropping quality.
• Collaborative, communicative, and comfortable working across teams.
• Strong time management and the ability to self‑direct without constant supervision.
• Adaptable and steady under changing priorities.
• Curious, teachable, and committed to continuous learning.

Bonus Certifications

• Social media marketing or analytics
• SEO or digital marketing
• B2B marketing
• AI literacy or AEO / GEO foundations
• Tech related certifications in areas like AI, cybersecurity, or data

Tools You'll Use

You'll work with a focused, practical tech stack. You don't need to be an expert in all of these from day one, but you should be comfortable picking things up fast. Our core tools include :

• ClickUp for workflow and task management
• Plausible, Google Search Console, and Google Analytics for performance tracking
• SEMrush for keyword and competitor insights
• Canva for graphics and carousels
• Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Drive)
• Adobe Stock for licensed imagery
• QuillBot Free for grammar checks and AI detection
• Riverside for podcast and videocast recording
• Spotify and YouTube for podcast distribution
• Meta Business Suite plus other native social backends
• Any additional platform‑native analytics, insights, or creator tools tied to the channels themselves

Why Work With Us

EMTech is a small, global team that punches far above its weight. Our core work revolves around podcasts and videocasts, backed by tech articles, editorial insight, and lead generation services that all feed into a single, connected strategy. Everything we create supports everything else. Nothing sits in a silo here. You won't be floating alone in the dark. You'll be working with people in the UK, the United States, South Africa, India, Brazil, the Philippines, and a few places in between. We come from backgrounds like publishing, journalism, digital marketing, cybersecurity, data, AI, B2B tech, and sales. It's a mix that gives us the range we need to do what we do despite our current size. And because we're a tight team, you'll see the impact of what you do immediately. Your ideas won't get stuck in layers of approval; if it works, it moves. So if you're still reading and this sounds like a good fit for you, we'd love to see your CV along with recent examples of your social media work. Links are better than PDFs, both is always best.

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