Senior Social Brand Manager - The Diary Of A CEO in City of London

Overview

About FlightStory: FlightStory exists to elevate the stories, build the communities, and support the founders that inspire a happier, healthier humanity. We are a transformative force in global media and investments, scaling creator-led IP, energising global fandom and investing in the next generation of ideas, brands, and technologies.

Role details:

• Company: FLIGHTSTORY
• Reporting to: HEAD OF SOCIAL BRAND
• Brand: DIARY OF A CEO

Mission: To evolve The Diary of a CEO into the most iconic and culturally relevant podcast brand on social media. You will be building DOAC's social presence into a full-spectrum social experience. You’ll lead the strategy, creativity, and execution that builds brand equity, drives deep engagement, and turns short-form content into long-form viewership.

Outcomes:

• Launch and lead new content pillars beyond podcast clips: original formats, behind-the-scenes, thought leadership, host moments, and cultural commentary, all aligned to the voice and values of the brand.
• Build a best-in-class social ecosystem that grows audience size, engagement and retention, while driving consistent traffic from social platforms to full episodes on YouTube.
• Establish a recognisable and differentiated brand identity across all social platforms that scales audience trust, loyalty, and cultural relevance.

We’re looking for:

• Demonstrated success scaling large, engaged audiences and managing online communities for major creator, media or entertainment brands.
• Strong creative ideation skills with experience developing original content formats tailored for social, especially for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, X and LinkedIn.
• Strategic thinking paired with platform fluency, analytics insight, and the ability to connect short-form content to long-form consumption.

What Success Looks Like:

• Within 6 months, The Diary of a CEO social platforms are more than a clips feed. They’re a vibrant content destination with original formats, deeper brand storytelling, and significant social-to-YouTube viewership uplift. This will in turn lead to continued social growth.
• By 12 months, the show is recognised as the most socially influential podcast globally, with a distinctive identity, a rapidly expanding audience, and consistent long-form growth fueled by a world-class social brand.

You’ll Thrive Here If:

• You’re as excited by audience signals as you are by storytelling.
• You’re obsessed with where culture is going, not where it’s been.
• You prefer systems over guesswork and experiments over opinions.

Your Background Might Include:

• You don’t just know how to make content go viral. You understand how to build brands that matter.
• You’ve taken social brands beyond basic distribution and transformed them into destination channels.
• You’re deeply familiar with the creator economy, audience psychology, and storytelling at scale.
• You bring big ideas, operate with high autonomy, and move fast, constantly evolving content to stay ahead of the algorithm and the audience.
• You’ve worked with or led large audience accounts and built strategies that convert attention into action.

Location: Shoreditch, London: We are an in-person-first culture and believe in fostering a vibrant and work environment centred around connection and community.

Interview Process:

• Screening Process - Our screening process is designed to assess candidates in a fair way. This gives you an opportunity to share your skills, experience and passion.
• Phone Call with the Talent Team - You will share a call with our talent team who will answer any questions you have about the role, our business and any next steps.
• 1st Interview - This first stage will involve meeting your potential manager and team members.
• 2nd Stage Interview - Task - Through the task round you get an insight into the day to day responsibilities of the role and we get the opportunity to understand how you work.
• Final Stage Interview - The final interview involves meeting a Senior Stakeholder in the business.