Social Media & Influencer Marketing Manager - Bay Area, CA Based Role

Social Media Manager

At Side, we believe everyone should own their path. Side partners with top-producing real estate professionals to help them own and operate their own boutique real estate companies, without the legal, regulatory, or operational complexity of running a traditional brokerage. As a pioneer in the Brokerage-as-a-Service model, Side provides a proprietary platform that increases efficiency, strengthens client relationships, and enables entrepreneurs to focus on what they do best selling real estate and growing their businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco and backed by more than $300 million from top-tier venture capital firms, Side is recognized as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing companies in real estate. At Side, you'll work alongside experienced industry leaders and world-class engineers to help shape the future of real estate and empower exceptional professionals to thrive as business owners.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute Side's overall social media strategy across Instagram most importantly, syndication across others as well including TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms.
• Own the strategy, creation, editing, publishing, and performance analysis of short-form and long-form content.
• Build and manage the executive social presence of Side's leadership team.
• Identify industry trends, news, market shifts, and cultural moments that create opportunities for Side to participate in relevant conversations.
• Create compelling content that positions Side as a thought leader and category leader within residential real estate.
• Develop original content concepts, recurring series, campaigns, and storytelling formats that differentiate Side from competitors.
• Capture and produce content from company events, partner events, conferences, leadership meetings, customer visits, and offsites.
• Partner closely with executives, marketing leadership, recruiting, product, and partner success teams to identify content opportunities.
• Establish performance goals and regularly report on growth, engagement, audience quality, reach, and business impact.
• Continuously test new content formats, distribution strategies, and platform-specific tactics.
• Maintain a deep understanding of social media algorithms, creator trends, platform updates, and audience behavior.
• Travel frequently throughout the bay area and often times beyond to capture content and support executive visibility opportunities.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success building, growing, or managing a meaningful social media audience for a company, executive, creator, entrepreneur, or personal brand specifically on Instagram
• Strong portfolio of content that demonstrates storytelling ability, creativity, and measurable results.
• Deep understanding of Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, and emerging social platforms.
• Exceptional content creation skills, including filming, editing, copywriting, storytelling, and content packaging.
• Strong understanding of audience growth strategies, engagement mechanics, and social media analytics.
• Experience working directly with founders, executives, entrepreneurs, or thought leaders is strongly preferred.
• Ability to independently generate ideas, execute quickly, and maintain high standards with minimal oversight.
• Strong business judgment and ability to translate company priorities into compelling narratives.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and high expectations.
• Experience in real estate, technology, media, creator economy, or high-growth startups is preferred but not required.

Compensation and Perks

• Stock options
• Best-in-class benefits, including 100% healthcare coverage (medical, vision, and dental)
• Flexible PTO
• Learning and development credit
• Pet-friendly environment

Side is dedicated to working with the highest skilled people from the most inclusive talent pool feasible. We maintain that diversity in all aspects leads to positive change, solutions and innovation for our customers and career fulfillment for our employees. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply! Side uses the E-Verify employment verification program. Our stewardship of the data of many of our customers means that a background and DRE license check is required to join Side. We will, nonetheless, consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accord with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

The starting salary for this position ranges from $135,000 to $165,000 a year, depending on your professional experience and the specific skills you bring to the team. We are committed to competitive compensation that reflects your unique qualifications.