Social Media and Video Marketing Manager

Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a realtime revolution. Whether attending an event in a virtual venue, receiving realtime financial information, or monitoring live car performance data - consumers simply expect realtime digital experiences as standard. Ably provides a suite of APIs to build, extend, and deliver powerful digital experiences in realtime for more than 265 million devices across 80 countries each month, supporting organizations like Toyota, Bloomberg, Hubspot and Stripe.
Working at Ably means helping to build the infrastructure and technology that will power and shape the future of the internet. The opportunity in front of us is immense. But we can't rest yet. And we'd like your help. As Ably enters its next stage of growth, we're looking for talented and curious individuals to help us build and deliver the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime for one billion devices every week by 2024.
Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a realtime revolution. Whether attending an event in a virtual venue, receiving realtime financial information, or monitoring live car performance data - consumers simply expect realtime digital experiences as standard. Ably provides a suite of APIs to build, extend, and deliver powerful digital experiences in realtime for more than 265 million devices across 80 countries each month, supporting organizations like Toyota, Bloomberg, Hubspot and Stripe.
Working at Ably means helping to build the infrastructure and technology that will power and shape the future of the internet. The opportunity in front of us is immense. But we can't rest yet. And we'd like your help. As Ably enters its next stage of growth, we're looking for talented and curious individuals to help us build and deliver the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime for one billion devices every week by 2024.
About the Content Marketing team
Ably's content marketing team brings together technical writers, channel experts, and growth-minded individuals to build our brand and customer-base. The opportunity to spread the word about Ably through high-caliber and engaging content is what excites and motivates us each day. If you enjoy identifying new opportunities, experimenting with new ideas, and speaking to our highly-technical audience through content, then you'll love working at Ably.
About this role
We are looking for a growth-focused Social Media and Video Marketer to join our content marketing team and make an immediate impact across the business as we continue our rapid growth. The ideal candidate has a strong background in social media, with a deep understanding of its role, how to grow and engage an audience, and how to use and produce video to achieve business objectives.
This role will give the right candidate the opportunity to dive deep into all aspects of social media and video marketing at an exciting B2B Enterprise SaaS company.
You'll be a key player in making social media and video a growth engine by:

• Managing the social media calendar, and producing, editing and supporting the development of content required to support it.
• Leading the businesses approach to video by supporting its production and advising on how to use it to drive growth.
• Overseeing the social media management processes by improving our workflows and tooling, developing resources, and enabling contributors across the business.

This role will have company-wide visibility and impact as you'll collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and the broader Marketing team.
Day to day you will

• Manage our brand presence across the social media channels, including YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn
• Manage the social media calendar by creating, resourcing, and editing the social media copy and assets required to build our audience, and grow our brand reach.
• Lead on the approach to video production and distribution - from the workflow, to the technical elements, to optimising content for YouTube.
• Oversee the social media content production process, and enable it to flow efficiently through the onboarding of tools, and development of training and resources designed to enable content contributors.
• Independently determine new topics we could produce and update content on, based on research and social listening.
• Analyze and report on our social media performance, suggesting improvements to increase audience growth, reach, and engagement.
• Participate in forming and executing the social media strategy at Ably

We'd love to hear from you if you have

• Proven experience growing and engaging an audience through social media (personally or professionally)
• Proven experience producing video content (personally or professionally), and an understanding of how it can be used to support business objectives
• Understanding of developers, software architects, developer ecosystems, how they buy, consume and develop products, and can use that knowledge to create compelling and engaging content
• Continuous learner mindset, self-starter, and comfortable working with complex technical concepts
• A growth and experimentation mindset

It would be nice, but not essential if you have

• Experience as a brand advocate or evangelist
• Any development experience (past or present) and the ability to read code
• Knowledge of cloud computing, serverless, event-driven architectures & technologies, pub/sub, distributed systems, realtime protocols such as WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, or MQTT

What's it like to work at Ably?
Ably is entering a new phase of growth led by an experienced senior team. You'll be part of a successful, highly motivated, and extremely collaborative team. We want to work in a company of inclusive people who treat each other well.
To see what life's like at Ably, check out our careers page at ably.com/careers and read the story of how Ably's core values came to be ( ably.com/blog/ably-values ).
Ably is a remote-first company and we strongly believe in life before work and encourage our people to find a balance between the two.
We recognize that each person is different and will want to be supported in different ways which is why our benefits ( ably.com/usbenefits ) are there to help you focus on your needs today and prepare you for your future.
Amongst other things, we offer a generous holiday allowance, private healthcare and significant learning and development opportunities, and provide access to numerous wellbeing resources. We're proud to do whatever it takes to care for Ablyans and their future.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Ably
We believe our differences as individuals is what makes us great. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and we encourage everyone to be their most authentic self at Ably: we see inclusivity and openness as fundamental to creating long-term success as an organization. We encourage applications from all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race, religion, educational background or neurodiversity. Ably has an amazing opportunity ahead of us, and we want anyone to be able to contribute to that opportunity.
If you enjoy working as part of a technology company, value open source, and love solving hard problems - then we'd love to hear from you, regardless of whether you fit the job description exactly or not. If in doubt, drop us an email ; we'd be more than happy to give you some advice on your application.