Social Media Manager

Full-time
· Remote — Europe/Middle East· ~$1500 USD/Month ·

Cactus & Camel is a digital magazine built around the world of electronic music. Think of us as the Hypebeast of electronic music: a modern media ecosystem sitting at the intersection of music, artists, fashion and lifestyle - blending curation, culture and real-world experiences, not just content.

Our editorial focus sits across Afro House, Melodic House & Techno, Tech House, Minimal House & Tech, and Indie Dance. We are not a generic music blog. We exist to document and amplify what is happening in the scene right now: the artists, the events, the trends.

This is the role that owns our output. You run the page day to day - sourcing the content, building the posts, securing the collabs, publishing on schedule, and shaping what we do next. You'll work directly with the founders, with artists, event organizers, labels, promoters and partner pages.

It is a facilitator-and-curator role more than a creator role. You are not filming or producing from scratch. You are finding the best content that already exists, filtering it ruthlessly to our taste, and bringing it out in a format that feels unmistakably Cactus & Camel.

Content sourcing & outreach

• Daily scene research: DJ, label, venue, promoter and competitor pages - what's happening, what's trending, what the scene is talking about

• Identifying videographers and creators at events and reaching out to secure original, high-quality footage (reels and carousels, UGC and multicam)

  • Working the 24-hour window on major events (Keinemusik, Black Coffee, festival weekends) where speed decides whether we get the moment or miss it

• Managing incoming content into our Dropbox bank and keeping Notion trackers current

Content creation

• Building carousels in Canva: cover slides, hook selection, video trimming, artist/location/energy sequencing, accurate track IDs

• Cutting reels for Instagram, Tik Tok and You Tube Shorts

• Writing creative headlines and captions in our format

Publishing & partnerships

• Choosing and pitching collab pages by genre relevance, lining up backups, coordinating simultaneous acceptance so nothing sits live waiting

• Coordinating collab posts with artists ahead of time

• Publishing to schedule (posting windows are in Eastern Time 9AM - 3PM EST), tagging, Stories reposts

Recurring formats

• Top 5 Releases of the Week - tracking upcoming releases, selection, post build, Stories, Spotify playlist upkeep

• Release of the Month - community poll, partner collaboration, final build

• Radar - editorial selection of releases we want to support

• Special posts - spotting what's moving in the scene and finding the angle to tell that story in our voice, through whichever editorial format fits it best

Strategy & communication

• Owning the content calendar and adapting it to what's actually happening in the scene

• Client and partner communication, and bringing ideas on scheduling and direction

• Watching what performs, why it performs, and feeding that back into what we make

• Monday – Special post (high-performing content with virality potential)

• Tuesday – Event or artist recap

• Wednesday – Event or artist recap

• Thursday – Set recap

• Friday – Release of the Week

• Saturday – Promotion post

• Sunday – Top 5 Releases of the Week

Plus 3–5 reels AND Tik Tok + Youtube Shorts per week, monthly formats (Top 5 of the Month, Radar, Top 5 Unreleased IDs with a guest artist), and extras like giveaways and news posts. The schedule flexes with season and availability.

• You live in this music. You can name who's playing where this weekend, which IDs people are hunting, and which label just signed what. This is not learnable from a brief.

• 2+ years running social for a music, events, nightlife…