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Cultural Engagement Director

United StatesRemote7+ YOE
Summary

Owns end-to-end cultural engagement strategy: social channels, creator/talent relationships, and influencer programs. Leads a team of five and drives measurable acquisition, brand trust, and cultural relevance across multiple platforms.

About the role

What You’ll Own

Social Strategy & Execution at Scale

  • Full ownership of multi-channel social growth with mandate to drive step-changes in reach, engagement, and cultural relevance
  • Build and execute an always-on, performance-driven social strategy across Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, Threads, and Facebook
  • Personally model best-in-class real-time engagement: on brand, fast, human, and culturally aware
  • Set the creative bar with exceptional taste and cultural judgment; create original formats and moments that others follow

Talent, Creator & Influencer Relationships

  • Own the full talent and creator relationship strategy across organic and paid efforts, from partnership identification and vetting through ongoing management and performance
  • Build and maintain a creator ecosystem that reflects Function’s brand values and reaches early adopters, mainstream health consumers, and cultural tastemakers
  • Partner with growth and performance teams to ensure influencer programs drive measurable acquisition outcomes
  • Evaluate partnership fit through a cultural lens; negotiate and manage talent relationships from micro-creators to high-profile partners

Cultural Intelligence & Trend Leadership

  • Bring a proactive cultural read to everything owned; decode the behavioral “why” behind audience actions
  • Identify cultural moments worth owning and develop criteria for knowing when they’ve landed
  • Apply cultural intelligence to ambassador selection, platform strategy, and content direction
  • Map the cultural tensions Function navigates as it scales and help the brand move through them with intention

Team Leadership

  • Lead and develop a team of five across social, talent and creator partnerships, with four direct reports
  • Set the direction, operating model, and performance standards for the team
  • Raise the cultural fluency of the team and the broader organization over time

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Operate as a true strategic partner to marketing, brand, creative, growth, comms, and product
  • Influence how stories are told and launched, not just how they’re posted

Performance & Accountability

  • Define the metrics that matter across social and creator programs and hold the team accountable to them
  • Tie cultural and creator work to business outcomes: acquisition, brand trust, retention, and reach into new audiences

The Bar

  • 7+ years owning social strategy, content, and creator or influencer programs at scale, ideally spanning both functions in one role
  • Proven track record of meaningful channel growth across multiple platforms and a creator program that drove real business outcomes
  • Experience leading and developing teams, with at least 2–3 direct reports
  • Deep operating experience in real time: cultural moments, news cycles, launches, live engagement
  • Genuine cultural intelligence practice: can explain not just what performed, but why, and what it signals about where the audience is heading
  • Strong analytical instincts and fluency tying social and creator performance to growth metrics
  • Experience managing creator and talent relationships across the full spectrum, organic and paid, micro and macro

Why This Role Is Different

  • Won’t be inheriting a playbook—you’ll be writing it
  • Own how the category-defining health brand engages with culture at every level
  • Social and creator are two expressions of the same cultural strategy, and this role holds both
Skills
Social Media StrategyContent StrategyInfluencer MarketingCreator PartnershipsInstagramTikTokYouTubeX/TwitterLinkedInTeam Leadership