Social Media Manager

Overview

Job Req

Job Type: Full-time

Work Category:
Hybrid Telecommute

Application Close Date: 03/05/2026

Sponsorship:
Not Available

Compensation: $113,400 - $170,200

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We re looking for a strategic, curious leader to shape Gallo s social platform strategy and drive culturally relevant, scalable, consumer-first content across channels. You ll lead a team of social and content specialists, maintain deep platform expertise, and partner with Brand, Creative, Media, PR, Legal, Mar Tech, and Consumer Engagement to ensure cohesive execution. Your day-to-day includes building organic content ecosystems, guiding creator partnerships, advising on social SEO and discoverability, and translating trends into testable experiments and innovation opportunities.

You ll own governance and operating standards—social guidelines, compliance protocols, approval workflows, crisis playbooks, and tool relationships—while setting community management expectations for on-brand, timely audience engagement. You ll monitor sentiment and emerging conversations, coach specialists on integrated brand strategies, and maintain a forward-looking view on platform shifts, alpha/beta opportunities, and AI-enabled content and listening tools. Using cultural insights, benchmarking, and performance data, you ll drive continuous improvement, recommend tools and processes, and own the KPI framework and reporting cadence.

If you bring thoughtful leadership, platform fluency, and a bias for experimentation, you ll thrive here. We value collaboration, diverse perspectives, and inclusive decision-making—applicants of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

• Bachelor s degree plus 6 years of social media marketing, content strategy, content marketing and/or digital marketing experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor s degree plus 5 years of Gallo sales, digital marketing, advertising, public relations or account management experience to include 4 years of social media marketing management experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR High school diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 9 years of social media marketing, content marketing, content strategy and/or digital marketing experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• Successfully supervised and developed employees.
• Demonstrated ability to delegate and provide direction to others on the team.
• Ability to anticipate potential problems and effectively solution problems.
• Ability to de-escalate and remain professional during conflict.
• Exceptional oral, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience using social media platforms and knowledge of tools and community management.
• Strong analytical skills to make data-driven decisions.
• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.
• Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

• Bachelor s degree plus 8 years of sales, marketing, advertising, public relations or account management experience to include 5 years of social media marketing management experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor s degree plus 7 years of Gallo sales, digital marketing, advertising, public relations or account management experience to include 4 years of social media marketing…