Social Media Content Strategist

Social Media Content Strategist

The Social Media Content Strategist is responsible for supporting the development, execution, optimization, and growth of social media content across multiple brands and platforms. This role combines social media strategy, content planning, trend identification, audience development, creator coordination, publishing execution, and performance optimization to support brand awareness, engagement, and business objectives.

The ideal candidate is highly knowledgeable in social media platforms, content trends, audience behavior, and digital storytelling. They will be responsible for identifying content opportunities, supporting content creation initiatives, managing social publishing activities, monitoring performance, and helping ensure content is optimized for maximum reach, engagement, and effectiveness across all social media channels.

Responsibilities

Without restricting the generality of the above-stated basic functions, this position shall perform such duties and responsibilities as may be assigned including but not restricted to the following:

• Support the development and execution of social media strategies across multiple brands and platforms.
• Identify opportunities to increase audience engagement, community growth, brand awareness, customer acquisition, and retention.
• Ensure social media initiatives align with broader content, campaign, and business objectives.
• Monitor competitor activity, platform developments, and industry trends to identify growth opportunities.
• Assist in the development and management of social media content calendars.
• Coordinate content requirements across campaigns, product launches, promotional initiatives, and seasonal programs.
• Generate content ideas, campaign recommendations, social-first concepts, and platform-specific content opportunities.
• Research emerging trends, creator content, viral formats, and audience interests.
• Manage content publishing across social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and emerging channels as required.
• Schedule and publish content according to approved content calendars and campaign plans.
• Optimize content for engagement, reach, retention, audience growth, and overall channel performance.
• Support creator and influencer outreach initiatives.
• Monitor comments, messages, reviews, tags, mentions, and social media conversations across channels.
• Engage with audiences in accordance with brand guidelines and community standards.
• Monitor audience sentiment, engagement trends, and customer feedback.
• Monitor and analyze social media performance metrics including engagement, reach, impressions, views, audience growth, click-through rates, and conversions.
• Prepare regular social media performance reports and content summaries.
• Work closely with content strategists, designers, videographers, editors, marketing stakeholders, and external partners.
• Provide platform-specific recommendations during content planning and production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Digital Media, Advertising, Public Relations, Journalism, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in social media, content marketing, digital marketing, community management, or related fields.
• Strong understanding of major social media platforms, content trends, audience development, and platform best practices.
• Experience managing social media content calendars, publishing schedules, and platform execution.
• Strong copywriting, communication, and content planning skills.
• Experience utilizing social media analytics and performance data to guide strategic recommendations.
• Familiarity with social media scheduling, publishing, listening, and analytics platforms.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

About Us

High Tide Inc. is the leading community-grown, retail-forward cannabis enterprise engineered to unleash the full value of the world's most powerful plant and is the second-largest cannabis retailer globally by store count. High Tide (HITI) is uniquely-built around the cannabis consumer, with wholly-diversified and fully-integrated operations across all components of cannabis, including:

• Bricks & Mortar Retail: Canna Cabana™ is the largest cannabis retail chain in Canada, with 195 current locations spanning British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and growing. In 2021, Canna Cabana became the first cannabis discount club retailer in the world.
• Retail Innovation: Fastendr™ is a unique and fully automated technology that employs retail kiosks to facilitate a better buying experience through browsing, ordering and pickup.
• Consumption Accessories: High Tide operates a suite of leading accessory e-commerce platforms across the world, including Grasscity.com, Smokecartel.com, Dailyhighclub.com, and Dankstop.com.
• E-commerce Platforms : High Tide operates a suite of leading accessory sites across the world, including Grasscity.com, Smokecartel.com, Dailyhighclub.com, and Dankstop.com.
• CBD: High Tide continues to cultivate the possibilities of consumer CBD through Nuleafnaturals.com, FABCBD.com, blessedcbd.de and blessedcbd.co.uk.
• Wholesale Distribution: High Tide keeps that cannabis category stocked with wholesale solutions via Valiant™.
• Licensing: High Tide continues to push cannabis culture forward through fresh partnerships and license agreements under the Famous Brandz™ name.

High Tide consistently moves ahead of the currents, having been named one of Canada's Top Growing Companies in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 by the Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine, and was named as one of the top 10 performing diversified industries stocks in both 2022 and 2024 TSX Venture 50. High Tide was also ranked number one in the retail category on the Financial Times list of Americas' Fastest Growing Companies for 2024.

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