About the Role
This role will advance Tinder's MarComms strategy in Australia, focusing on making Tinder a central part of Gen Z culture through a culture-first, social-first mission. The goal is to shape narratives that resonate on platforms like TikTok, through creators, partnerships, and online communities where Gen Z is active.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement social-first integrated MarComms strategies.
- Design and implement comms strategies that start in social.
- Develop and execute influencer strategies and campaigns aligned with Australia's marketing strategy and KPIs.
- Identify opportunities to leverage cultural moments on social platforms through influencers, owned social, and comms tactics.
- Optimize Tinder narratives for Gen Z content consumption (short-form video, creators, podcasts, niche communities, emerging platforms).
- Partner with local and global marketing teams to ensure narrative cohesion across paid, owned, and earned channels.
- Shape and amplify culturally resonant narratives that connect deeply with Gen Z audiences across key social platforms.
- Develop and implement integrated storytelling strategies with a clear planning calendar, focusing on influencers and creators.
- Anticipate cultural moments, tensions, and trends to proactively insert the brand into meaningful conversations.
- Build and nurture a diverse ecosystem of creators, influencers, podcast hosts, cultural commentators, and community leaders.
- Manage local brand partnership strategies and campaigns, assessing inbound opportunities and proactively identifying new ones.
- Manage and evolve agency relationships and external communications support models.
- Build measurable earned impact through social media share-of-voice and engagement signals.
- Manage and nurture influencers, creators, and key journalist relationships, evolving success metrics beyond media coverage volume.
- Partner with local, regional, and global stakeholders on trust & safety, reputational, and corporate communications topics.
- Steward Tinder’s brand reputation across high-visibility moments and evolving cultural conversations.
Requirements
- Ideally 5-10 years of experience in both communications and social media (agency or brand background).
- Highly strategic yet hands-on MarComms professional with strong execution capabilities and attention to detail.
- Experience developing and implementing reactive and proactive communications and social strategies end-to-end.
- Deep fluency in social-first ecosystems, creator culture, influencer marketing, entertainment, and digital content trends.
- Existing relationships in the Australian influencer, creator, and media landscapes, with a focus on Gen Z consumption.
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving, international organizations.
- Strong collaborator with the ability to influence across multiple functions and stakeholders.
- Experience managing agencies and external partners.
- Data-driven with strong commercial awareness and the ability to connect storytelling to business impact.
- Highly organized with strong prioritization and project management capabilities.
Skills
- Communications
- Social Media
- Integrated MarComms Strategy
- Influencer Marketing
- Creator Culture
- Partnership Management
- Content Strategy
- Social Listening
- Public Relations
- Project Management
- Data Analysis
- Commercial Awareness
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5-10 years
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000 - $145,000 a year
About the Company
- As humans, there are few things more exciting than meeting someone new. At Tinder, we’re inspired by the challenge of keeping the magic of human connection alive.
- With tens of millions of users, hundreds of millions of downloads, 2+ billion swipes per day, 20+ million matches per day, and a presence in 190+ countries, our reach is expansive—and rapidly growing.
- We work together to solve complex problems. Behind the simplicity of every match, we think deeply about human relationships, behavioral science, network economics, AI and ML, online and real-world safety, cultural nuances, loneliness, love, sex, and more.
- Our Values: Take the Lead, Move Fast, Better Together, Real Talk, Safety First, Spark Fun.
