Hiring: Group Director, Social Strategy & Connections Company: Blue Hour Studios Location: New York City Metropolitan Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:37:05 Target Skills & Keywords : Content Strategy, Embedded Systems About the job Experience: •12+ years of experience across social strategy, connections planning, or content strategy. Required Skills: •Blue Hour Studios is a social-first agency that makes brands magnetic through work that gets shared, remixed, and talked about. We create at the intersection of culture, content, creators, and commerce to help brands turn distinct cultural relevance into demand. •You'll serve as a strategic bridge between Blue Hour, Horizon Media, and our client teams, ensuring social-first thinking influences not only what gets made, but how ideas are distributed, optimized, and scaled for impact. •Serve as senior strategic partner and connective tissue across Blue Hour, Horizon Media, and client teams to build stronger connections across social, influencer, creative and media workstreams, while identifying opportunities for stronger integration, faster decisions, and greater impact. •Bring audience insights, platform intelligence, creator learnings, social trends, and cultural signals into planning conversations to shape stronger strategies and uncover new opportunities for growth. •Partner cross-functionally with media leads to bring social audience insights, platform behaviors, content signals, and creator learnings into audience development and media planning. •Contribute social-first thought starters, audience opportunities, and strategic provocations that help clients stay ahead of emerging platform behaviors and cultural shifts. •Partner with social, influencer, creative, and media teams to ensure media considerations are incorporated into content planning from the beginning. •Help shape content strategies, social & influencer briefs, and production plans to ensure assets are developed with both organic engagement and paid amplification in mind. Qualifications: •A social strategist with 8-12+ years of experience across social strategy, connections planning, or content strategy. •Deeply fluent in social media, creators, content ecosystems, platform behaviors, and community dynamics. You understand paid social and media strategy, but your strategic instincts start with organic social, content, culture, and audience behavior. •Comfortable operating at both the strategic and executional level. You can influence senior stakeholders while also rolling up your sleeves to build frameworks, recommendations, briefs, and plans. •In-depth knowledge of audience strategy, content planning, creative effectiveness, testing frameworks, and performance optimization. •A strong strategic storyteller who can simplify complex challenges into clear recommendations and inspire action across teams. •Naturally collaborative and energized by cross-functional environments where success depends on bringing different disciplines together. •Curious, culturally plugged in, and excited by how ideas move through platforms, communities, creators, and culture. •What We Want to See •Proven experience – with examples to share – of developing social-first strategies that connect content, creators, media, and business objectives. •Strong command of social audience insights, cultural analysis, platform intelligence, and social listening. Compensation: •$180,000 - $220,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!