About the Role
The Social Media Manager shapes and executes Bio-Techne's social media strategy across customer-facing brands, acting as a key cross-functional partner to guide social-first storytelling and promote best practices. This role combines social strategy, content activation, and AI Search optimization to enhance Bio-Techne's visibility and credibility, leading a team to scale social media impact.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to shape and execute enterprise social media strategies.
- Serve as the subject matter expert for social media strategy and platform best practices.
- Own channel roadmaps and lead strategic channel initiatives.
- Oversee social media activation and best practices across various platforms.
- Partner to coordinate social content planning, governance, and calendar management.
- Build social media frameworks supporting engagement, awareness, and thought leadership.
- Govern social channel standards, publishing processes, and platform optimization.
- Monitor and share insights on competitor activity, social trends, and industry best practices.
- Shape and amplify social content strategies in partnership with relevant teams.
- Influence content development through audience insights, platform expertise, and performance data.
- Develop content distribution plans to increase visibility, engagement, and reach.
- Support the enterprise employee advocacy strategy and own program governance.
- Expand social media employee advocacy and thought leadership initiatives.
- Support creating programs that strengthen brand credibility and authority.
- Partner to expand Bio-Techne's thought leadership presence across digital platforms.
- Improve visibility within AI-powered search experiences in close partnership with SEO and Content teams.
- Incorporate GEO and AEO best practices into social media content strategies.
- Create playbooks and best practices connecting social signals, content authority, and AI discoverability.
- Support testing and measurement of AI visibility initiatives.
- Help build programs that strengthen customer engagement and community participation.
- Support developing audience engagement strategies on key platforms.
- Partner to identify opportunities for meaningful customer interactions.
- Monitor community health and engagement trends and share insights.
- Lead, coach, and develop a small team of social media professionals.
- Establish priorities, allocate resources, and remove obstacles for social media initiatives.
- Manage relationships with social media platform partners.
- Partner with vendors to identify new opportunities and optimize performance.
- Define KPIs and reporting frameworks for social performance and AI visibility.
- Deliver actionable insights and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Measure contribution to brand authority, engagement, audience growth, and discoverability.
- Support development of dashboards and performance reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Digital Marketing or related field.
- 5+ years of social media, content marketing, digital marketing or SEO experience.
- Experience building social media strategy, programs and processes.
- Experience developing content distribution and audience engagement strategies.
- Understanding of SEO, AI Search, GEO or AEO concepts.
- Experience using social listening platforms.
- Experience in B2B, Life Sciences or highly technical industries preferred.
- Experience with AI-powered search platforms and discovery experiences preferred.
- Experience working cross-functionally within matrixed organizations preferred.
Skills
- Impeccable communication skills, including presenting recommendations to senior leadership.
- Continuous learner who stays up to date with the Digital Marketing and AI industry.
- Interpersonal effectiveness and rapport-building.
- Strong cross-functional influence skills.
- Data analysis and interpretation, including proficiency in analytics tools (e.g Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics) and data visualization tools (e.g DOMO, Power BI, Tableau).
- Self-directed with ability to identify and lead process and channel improvement efforts.
- Knowledge of social media employee advocacy, thought leadership and brand authority-building strategies within digital and social ecosystems.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to flawless execution.
- Strong time management, organizational, planning and prioritization skills.
- Social Media: LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Facebook, Sprinklr, Sprout Social.
- Social Listening: Sprout Social, Brandwatch, Talkwalker, Meltwater.
- Analytics: Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, GTM, Power BI, DOMO.
- SEO & AI Visibility: Semrush, STAT, Botify.
- Workflow: Workfront, JIRA, Monday.com.
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Digital Marketing or related field
Salary/Compensations
- $87,600.00 - $144,000.00
Benefits
- Competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.
- 401k plans, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), Health Saving Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care FSA.
- Mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, tuition reimbursement, internship programs.
- Employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives.
- Accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
About the Company
- Bio-Techne enables cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics, providing tools to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.
- We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.
Equal Opportunity
- Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
