Senior Community Manager/ YouTube Specialist

Senior Community Manager/ YouTube SpecialistWe are looking for a Senior Community Manager/ YouTube Specialist to join our Community team in London. This will be an initial 6 month full time contract (FTC) with potential to be extended or become permanent.

The 1000heads Community team is a collective of social media experts delivering world-class editorial and social conversation for leading brands. You will work closely with Insights, Design, and Strategy to deliver transformational social-first work for clients. This role requires senior-level expertise in YouTube strategy, channel management, and optimisation. You will shape and deliver strategies that drive measurable growth, apply SEO best practices, and lead how clients succeed on YouTube. You will craft and own holistic YouTube strategies covering channel growth, audience development, creative optimisation, and long-term content planning.

Lead and deliver YouTube strategies across multiple clients, driving channel growth, audience development, and creative optimisation

Develop and implement YouTube-first approaches that align with brand goals and broader social strategies

Craft and optimise SEO-rich titles, descriptions, metadata, and tags to maximise discoverability and search ranking

Establish, champion, and refine YouTube best practices across publishing, content optimisation, and community engagement

Provide senior editorial leadership by guiding ideation, creative briefing, and content planning with internal creative teams

Deliver platform-specific copywriting with attention to brand voice, audience resonance, and keyword optimisation

Oversee community engagement, ensuring active moderation and meaningful conversation management

Manage day-to-day delivery of editorial calendars and creative campaigns, ensuring deadlines and quality

Partner with creative and production teams to ensure YouTube content is designed for success (thumbnails, titles, scripting)

Analyse performance data and deliver senior-level insights, growth recommendations, and strategic reporting to clients

Research platform trends, algorithm updates, and emerging tools; proactively apply innovations to client work

Build trusted client relationships, contributing senior-level strategic thinking, creative leadership, and commercial awareness

Mentor and develop junior team members, elevating the team’s expertise in YouTube and community management

Proven ability to lead YouTube strategy for major brands or publishers, with demonstrable results in channel growth, engagement, and optimisation

Strong expertise in YouTube SEO, metadata, and analytics, with a track record of applying best practice to achieve measurable performance improvements

Senior-level experience in copywriting for YouTube and social platforms, balancing creativity, brand voice, and keyword optimisation

Solid understanding of social platforms broadly, with fluency in video-first formats (YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTok)

Exceptional client-facing skills, with experience building relationships and presenting strategies and results at a senior level

Excellent organisational, time management, and leadership skills, with experience managing projects and teams under pressure

Proficiency in YouTube Studio, Creator Studio tools, and wider analytics/SEO platforms

A strategic, creative, and analytical mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities, solve problems, and inspire innovation

Passion for social culture, with the curiosity to stay ahead of trends and the confidence to challenge and innovate

About 1000heads

1000heads is a Social Transformation company. We combine expertise in data and analytics, strategy, technology and creativity to help the world''s best businesses build Social Age brands. 1000heads delivers social-first insight, consultancy, and creative services to clients worldwide, including The North Face, Google, Diageo, Wella, Snap, Meta, Amazon and the United Nations. We have offices in London, Berlin, New York, LA, Miami, Sydney and Melbourne. 1000heads is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to an inclusive environment which celebrates diversity. We welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on performance. For more information, visit www.1000heads.com

Benefits

Additional holiday day for each year of service, up to 27 days

Additional festive shutdown period between Christmas and New Year

Subsidised gym membership

Private Medical Cover

Company Pension Scheme

Personal development fund

Cycle to work scheme

Regular company socials/away days, free Monday breakfasts and Friday drinks

Flexible working, hybrid 1-2 days per week

Plus other cool perks

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Other

Industries

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