Full-Time

Director of Social Media

Posted on 3/13/2026

Inkitt

Inkitt

201-500 employees

Reader-powered publishing platform with data-driven deals

Compensation Overview

$140k - $190k/yr

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

Must travel to Los Angeles at least once a month.

Category
Social Media (2)
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Required Skills
Canva
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 7+ years of social media marketing experience
  • Highly strategic, analytical, and creative with a strong grasp of social media key performance indicators and analytics and the ability to translate insights into actions
  • Skilled in content creation, editing, and design with tools such as Capcut, Adobe, Canva, and AI tools
  • Able to demonstrate trend driven campaigns by providing results and key learnings
  • Autonomous, data driven, quick to action
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Responsibilities
  • Create and execute social media strategy for Inkitt, Galatea, and CandyJarTV
  • Create and post up to 10 multimedia content across TikTok, Instagram, and other priority social platforms
  • Manage and hire a team of social media direct reports
  • Regularly review performance, identify growth opportunities, and ensure targets are achieved
  • Deeply understand and engage with pop culture and authentic creator scenes
  • Foster community by engaging followers, responding to DMs/comments, and building brand loyalty
  • Obsess over the newest AI tools and use them to create scroll stopping social content
  • Willing to travel as needed to Los Angeles at least once a month to be on set for footage
Desired Qualifications
  • People management experience strongly preferred
  • Camera facing (comfortable appearing in video content)
  • Deeply plugged into pop culture, BookTok, romance shows, and trends with a strong record of creating viral content
  • Experience in growing brands from launch to maturity and shaping their social identities
  • Strong enthusiasm for Galatea stories and CandyJarTV content
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Inkitt runs a reader-powered publishing platform where readers can discover and read a wide range of books for free. Readers provide feedback and their reading behavior helps the platform identify which stories have high potential. Authors submit manuscripts, and Inkitt offers publishing deals to those popular with readers, distributing them on GALATEA and other formats. Revenue comes from the author share of book sales and premium content on the platform. What sets Inkitt apart is its data-driven approach: it uses reader engagement data to select books to publish, reducing risk for authors and giving readers a voice in which stories become published. The goal is to connect new authors with readers and build a sustainable, data-informed publishing model that benefits both sides.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$116.8M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2014

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • $37M Series C funding from Khosla Ventures expands AI content.
  • 33 million users and dozens of bestsellers fuel global growth.
  • Author Subscription Program lets writers keep 100% of earnings.

What critics are saying

  • Author exodus erodes half-million base over AI content backlash.
  • EU AI Act imposes audits on ReadRank by mid-2026.
  • Wattpad's 90M users capture Galatea's multimedia market share.

What makes Inkitt unique

  • ReadRank algorithm predicts bestsellers using reader engagement data.
  • GalateaTV launches weekly short-form TV series from top e-books.
  • Hyper Personalisation adapts stories via AI to individual preferences.

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Benefits

401(k) Retirement Plan

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

-2%
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