Content and Social Media Specialist
About Us
The Company: Dotdigital is a thriving global community of passionate, dedicated professionals, committed to the collective success of the organization and its clients. Our core principles of innovation, teamwork, and client-focused solutions drive us to approach challenges with a growth mindset and take ownership of our work. At Dotdigital, collaboration and curiosity pave the way for meaningful connections and learning opportunities with diverse peers. Our work environment encourages knowledge sharing, fosters exploration, and cherishes creative ideas that guide us towards our shared vision of empowering businesses through marketing automation and engagement.
The Product: Dotdigital is an all-in-one customer experience and data platform (CXDP) that empowers marketing teams to exceed customer expectations with highly personalized cross-channel journeys. With Dotdigital, marketers can seamlessly unify, enrich, and segment customer data. Breaking down data siloes, Dotdigital streamlines decision-making and paves the way for marketing creativity that delivers customer engagement at scale. With powerful AI capabilities, Dotdigital makes it easy to automate deeply personalized experiences across web, email, SMS, WhatsApp, chat, push, social, ads, and more.
About the Role
Reporting directly into the Head of Content Marketing, you’ll help us shape our brand personality and inspire a global marketing community. Here’s how…
Content creation and repurposing
Create impactful visual content: design and produce engaging visual content tailored for each social media platform and marketing channel, ensuring alignment with the brand’s identity and objectives
Capture compelling visuals: use photography and videography skills to create high-quality images and videos that resonate with target audiences and represent the brand accurately
Edit and produce video content: plan, shoot, and edit short-form videos that communicate complex ideas in a concise, captivating way. Working with freelancers, agencies and third party support as needed (on a global basis)
Repurpose longform content: break down whitepapers, guides, and eBooks into short-form, snackable posts optimized for different platforms
The ability to understand and communicate key product and feature messages: through multi-media shortform content
Craft punchy short-form copy: write attention-grabbing captions, headlines, and posts that drive engagement and highlight Dotdigital’s brand personality
Optimize for each platform: ensure content is formatted and tailored for specific platforms, keeping audience preference and best practices in mind
Planning, scheduling and reporting
Content planning and scheduling: working in alignment with Content Managers and our Campaigns team to enhance content calendars, balance social outputs and meet marketing objectives
Monitor trends and insights: stay up to date with industry trends and social media developments to ensure content remains fresh, relevant, and effective.
Analyze and report performance: track content metrics like engagement, reach, and conversions to measure success and inform future strategies
Make social searchable: work with SEO/AEO and paid search teams to align social captions and content with keywords and search targets
Performance analysis: with experience using metrics to guide content strategy improvements
Advocacy and influencers
Put the customer at the heart of the content: Expand the content & social strategy to customers and partners, building a strong bank of EGC and UGC content
Build a multi-channel influencer program: identify and activate well-known marketing experts and Dotdigital customers to expand brand reach, authority and awareness
Build and a grow an internal advocacy program: ensure all global teams are armed with assets and information to regularly share Dotdigital content with ease, working with internal social champions in each team and region
Stakeholder relations and management
Cross-team collaboration: work closely with the Dotdigital design team, product marketing team, revenue teams and people team, on a global basis to ensure a full suit of assets are available for each region within brand guidelines
Relationship building: build strong relationships across departments and encourage employees to actively participate in video and content creation and become social-first advocates for the brand.
Occasional Global & regional travel: to Dotdigital offices as needed to capture incredible on-the-ground content, culture content and post live social media updates
About You
This role is ideal for a self-starter who is highly creative, with the ability to think strategically. You’ll also need to be great at building relationships, encouraging people to get involved and enjoy being on both sides of the camera.
Experience
Demonstrated expertise in creating and editing visual content: including photography, short-form video production, and caption writing
Demonstrated experience in using design, editing and AI tools: Capcut, Figma, Canva, AI tools and/or similar design and editing tools
Ability to brief and manage agencies and freelancers: to support your work as needed
Exceptional ability to craft engaging and concise short-form copy: tailored for social platforms
Strong understanding of platform-specific content optimization: and current social media trends and influencers around the world
Understanding of how to find and engage appropriate influencers
Experience repurposing long-form content: into impactful, snackable posts
Some experience in working with B2B SaaS: could be advantageous - but not essential
Skills
Collaborative mindset and the ability to working closely with design teams, stakeholders, and external partners, giving and taking feedback constructively
A natural storyteller with the ability to bring a brand’s personality and values to life
Strong organizational and scheduling skills, with the ability to support global content calendars and campaigns
Passion for building relationships at all levels, including senior leaders and encouraging active participation in content creation
A willingness and level of comfort with being on-camera and featuring in Dotdigital content
The ability to build personal brands and profiles across LinkedIn, working with key individuals across the business
Tech savvy and curious when it comes to getting the best out of social scheduling and listening tools, along with LLMs and editing suites
Interview Process
15min Screening Call with Team Talent
First stage intro chat with Head of Content Marketing to talk through the details of the role and see how candidate experience aligns
Task
Second stage interview with Head of Content Marketing and CMO to talk through the task and the completion process
Final stage = 20 min virtual coffee with the Content Team as a culture check on both sides
Some of Our Global Benefits
Commission & bonus opportunities
Annual leave that increases with service + option to buy more
Additional paid wellbeing days + annual wellbeing reward
Christmas office shutdown (extra time off)
Enhanced parental leave & family support policies
Employee recognition & reward schemes
Referral bonuses & long-service rewards
Authenticity in Our Hiring Process
At Dotdigital, we believe in genuine conversations and authentic expertise. While AI can be a valuable and legitimate tool in many contexts, we ask candidates not to use AI-generated content or live AI assistance at any stage of our recruitment process, including applications, assessments, and interviews.
We appreciate your cooperation in helping us keep our hiring process fair, transparent, and focused on real human insight.
DEI commitment
As an equal opportunities employer we are committed to equality in all its practices with regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. If you have any additional requirements or adjustments to assist an application then please don't hesitate to contact us and advise us how we can best support you.
Legal statement
No agencies/recruiters please. We are only accepting applications directly from the applicants. If you are a recruiter, please refrain from reaching out to our staff about this position. Anything contrary will be treated as unsolicited approach under the applicable data protection law.
- Department
- Marketing
- Location
- London Bridge
- Remote status
- Hybrid
London Bridge
Workplace & Culture
It all started in a pub in Croydon, UK – we even have the original tables and stools in our London Bridge HQ. Today, we’re a growing global business with 350+ employees and counting. So if you’re interested in becoming part of the dotfamily there may be an opportunity for you.
About Dotdigital
Dotdigital is a thriving global community of passionate, dedicated professionals, committed to the collective success of the organization and its clients. Our core principles of innovation, teamwork, and client-focused solutions drive us to approach challenges with a growth mindset and take ownership of our work.