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