Job Description

Role: Social Media Manager

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates (O fficepresenceexpected 2-3 days per week)

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THE OPPORTUNITY

Looking to do the best work of your career?

Do it with Dove, one of the most respected global brands on social. We’re building a team across 15 markets to own Dove’s social presence end to end: insight and ideation, platform-native creative, publishing, live ops, and community. From the first idea to the final reply, you’ll shape how Dove shows up every day and create work that influences culture.

You’ll move at newsroom speed with rigorous craft—launching ideas that travel, partnering with standout creators, and turning comments into conversations that become cultural moments. The brief is straightforward: make Dove the most culturally relevant brand on social. You’ll have the scale, purpose, and creative freedom to make it real.

If you’re motivated by ideas that matter, sharpened by data, and committed to making the internet more positive, this is the place to do it. Bring your craft and your courage. Together we’ll build culture—not just content—and do the best work of our careers.

You'll be close to Dove's social channels every day, supporting the planning, publishing, and community engagement that keeps the brand's social presence consistent, culturally relevant, and growing. You'll work alongside the Senior Social Media Manager, content creators, strategists, and the Dove brand team to ensure content lands on time, on brand, and on platform. Your understanding of how social channels work, what audiences respond to, and how to keep a content operation moving smoothly will be central to the studio's output.

THE ROLE

You'll be one of the people who makes Dove's social presence happen, day in, day out. From content ideation, trend tracking and scheduling to community engagement, copy writing, and performance tracking, you'll manage the daily rhythm of Dove's social channels and ensure the brand shows up consistently and compellingly across platforms.

This is a role for someone who is organised, culturally-fluent, and genuinely enthusiastic about social media as a discipline. You understand what makes content work on TikTok versus Instagram versus YouTube, you can write copy that fits the tone of each platform, and you notice when something is trending before it peaks. We're looking for someone who is as comfortable managing a content calendar and pulling a performance report as they are drafting a reactive post or briefing a content creator on an emerging format.

Success means channels that run smoothly, content that consistently meets brand and platform standards, a community that feels listened to and engaged, and performance data that shows steady growth in reach, engagement, and brand affinity.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Content Planning and Publishing

• Create and manage Dove's social content calendars across TikTok and Instagramand emerging platforms, ensuring a consistent cadence of planned, campaign, and reactive content
• Schedule and publish content across platforms, ensuring every post meets brand guidelines, platform specifications, and accessibility standards (captions, alt text, format requirements)
• Write and adapt social copy for each platform, ensuring Dove's tone of voice is consistent, compelling, and native to the channel
• Coordinate with the creative team and content creators to ensure assets are delivered on time, correctly formatted, and ready to publish
• Support the Senior Social Media Manager in planning always-on content, campaign activations, and seasonal or product-launch moments

Community Management and Engagement

• Monitor Dove's social channels daily, responding to comments, messages, and mentions in a timely, on-brand, and thoughtful manner
• Engage proactively with Dove's audience, fostering a sense of community and connection that reflects the brand's values of inclusivity and real beauty
• Track trending topics, hashtags, cultural moments, and platform features, flagging relevant opportunities to the wider team and, where appropriate, drafting reactive content
• Identify opportunities to surprise and delight Dove's audience through creative engagement, timely responses, and community-building moments

Performance Tracking and Reporting

• Track and report on social content performance across platforms, compiling regular reports on key metrics including reach, engagement, saves, shares, and audience growth
• Use native platform analytics and social management tools to monitor content effectiveness, identify trends, and flag insights that can inform future content decisions
• Support the Senior Social Media Manager and Data Analyst in building a continuous learning loop between content output and performance data

Collaboration and Coordination

• Collaborate with content creators, designers, and copywriters to ensure social assets align with the content calendar and campaign objectives
• Support the coordination of influencer and creator content within the publishing schedule, ensuring assets are approved, scheduled, and tracked
• Work closely with the Dove brand team on day-to-day social activity, keeping stakeholders informed of what's publishing, what's performing, and what's coming next
• Support briefing processes, helping to translate client briefs and campaign objectives into clear direction for the creative team

Platform Expertise and Trends

• Stay current with social platform updates, algorithm changes, new features, and emerging content formats, sharing relevant developments with the team
• Contribute ideas for new content formats, series, and engagement approaches based on platform evolution and audience behaviour
• Ensure the studio's content approach reflects the latest platform best practices for organic reach and engagement

WHAT YOU BRING

• 3-5 years of experience in social media management for consumer brands, ideally in beauty, personal care, wellness, or FMCG
• Strong platform fluency across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and emerging social channels, including an understanding of content formats, algorithms, audience behaviours, and publishing best practices
• Professional proficiency in English; additional languages are a plus
• Experience managing social content calendars and publishing workflows across multiple platforms
• Solid copywriting skills, with the ability to write platform-native social copy that reflects a brand's tone of voice and connects with diverse audiences
• Experience with community management, including responding to comments and messages, engaging with audiences, and maintaining a consistent, on-brand presence
• Familiarity with social media management tools (such as Sprinklr, Hootsuite, Sprout Social, or similar) and native platform analytics
• The ability to track and report on social performance metrics, with a good understanding of what the numbers mean and how they inform content decisions
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, competing deadlines, and day-to-day publishing demands without losing attention to detail
• A genuine interest in social culture, digital trends, and the evolving beauty and personal care landscape
• A collaborative, proactive working style, with the confidence to flag opportunities, raise issues, and contribute ideas

Gen AI and Agentic Thinking:

• Basic proficiency with Gen AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copy.ai, Grammarly) to support copy drafting, content ideation, trend research, and reporting
• An agentic approach to your work: ability to self-organise, manage priorities, find efficient solutions, and take initiative across a busy, multi-platform workload
• Willingness to experiment with AI tools as part of the social workflow, understanding when they add value and when human creativity, cultural nuance, and community instinct are needed
• Understanding of AI limitations, with an eye for outputs that feel authentic and on-brand versus generic
• Qualifications: Formal degrees are welcome but not required. Equivalent experience counts. Experience can be gained through work, study, volunteering, or self-directed learning.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience in an in-house agency, embedded studio, or social-specialist environment
• An editorial background or experience writing long-form and short-form content for social
• Experience working with influencer or creator content within a publishing workflow
• Familiarity with social listening tools and basic audience research
• Experience with accessibility in social publishing (captions, alt text, inclusive content practices)
• An interest in or experience with brand purpose, inclusivity, or social impact in a marketing context
• Familiarity with paid social amplification and how organic and paid content work together

Req ID: 16857

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