Senior Social Media Editor

Senior Social Media Editor

Location:

London

Department

The Times & The Sunday Times

Salary Range:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

06 Sep 2026

The Times and The Sunday Times represent a combined 400 years of covering news and providing comment and analysis on the UK and the world. We are authoritative, credible, responsible, trusted and a part of the nation’s cultural heritage.

Your role: The Senior Social Media Editor is responsible for creating and optimising content that drives audience growth, engagement and brand consideration across The Times and Sunday Times’ social media channels. This role combines hands-on production with strategic oversight, mentoring other social media editors, and helping to shape platform-specific strategies aligned with editorial and business goals. This role reports to the head of social strategy (editorial).

• Develop and execute high-performing social strategies that maximize high-intent referral traffic while expanding brand consideration across key platforms.
• Serve as the newsroom’s expert on Apple News and Apple News+, refining curation, packaging, and strategy to boost daily engagement, reach and paid readership metrics.
• Actively coach, mentor and upskill a team of junior social media editors, setting high standards for output, model best practices and career growth.
• Champion social media culture across the wider newsroom—working directly with section editors, reporters and audience editors to embed social thinking into daily commissioning and story planning.
• Leverage native platform analytics and audience data to extract actionable editorial insights, optimizing social performance in real time.

One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month.

Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Strategy , which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce.

We also currently have 13 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full Linked In Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym…