VIA is making an impact, and so can you.
Headquartered in Boston, VIA provides mission-critical software for secure data exchange and trustworthy AI without compromising speed, simplicity, or resilience. Its military-grade architecture helps defense, public safety agencies, and humanitarian organizations use AI while maintaining control of sensitive, distributed data even in contested or offline environments.
Learn more: solvewithvia.com .
Big missions require an effective, results-driven, and highly organized storyteller. We’re looking for a Social Content Marketing Lead to translate VIA’s mission, product capabilities, and customer wins into compelling social media content that elevates our brand voice and builds an engaged global community across all major platforms. This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role. You'll set the standard for how VIA shows up on social media, and do much of the execution yourself, leading agency partners, freelancers, and our team to support your goals.
In this role, your day-to-day will include:
Strategy
Social media strategy: Own VIA’s social media strategy across our priority channels (currently LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, and YouTube). Determine where and how we grow our presence next on platforms like Reddit, Medium, Substack, and other emerging channels. Define the goal, audience, voice, and visual guidelines for each channel, and align key stakeholders on the approach
Analytics and optimization: Define the metrics that matter for each channel and connect social performance to VIA's brand, marketing, and pipeline goals. Use performance data, competitor research, and industry analysis to refine the strategy, and share regular insights with clear recommendations on a minimum of a monthly cadence
Paid promotion: Identify when paid campaigns make sense, then define the goals, target audience, placement, and budget for each
Cross-functional partnership: Lead VIA’s social media content calendar in partnership with the marketing team, product team members, the People and Operations team, leadership, and our external PR agency, keeping VIA’s voice and delivery consistent across product launches, company milestones, and everything that makes VIA unique
Brand safety and approvals: Build and own the review and approval process for social content, including clear guidelines on what we can share about customers, product deployments, and partners. Partner with compliance, client delivery, and leadership on escalation protocol as needed
Execution
Content creation and publishing: Own day-to-day scheduling and publishing across VIA's channels, creating content directly and directing designers, freelancers, and agency partners on visuals and video
Audience engagement: Own the two-way conversation on VIA’s channels, responding thoughtfully and promptly to comments, mentions, and messages
Community presence: Bring VIA into relevant groups and forums (e.g., Facebook or LinkedIn groups, Reddit communities) where our customers and competitors are already talking
Campaigns and extended reach: Lead integrated social campaigns around major moments, and extend content beyond the feed to our website and other channels
Event amplification: Lead real-time social coverage of conferences, launches, and company events
Executive and Employee Voice
Executive presence: Own and grow our CEO’s social presence, starting with LinkedIn, and align it with VIA’s brand and PR efforts to amplify our message
Social media ambassador program: Launch and grow an internal ambassador program. Identify engaged VIAneers and give them the tools, coaching, and content to amplify the VIA story, guiding everyone from early-career employees to executives as they build their profiles and amplify VIA’s reach
VIAneer social media guidelines: Create employee guidelines for how best to represent VIA on social media including boilerplate for profiles, headshots and graphics, and social media do’s and don’ts. Host training…