Staff Digital & Social Media Marketing Manager

Aurora Innovation Aurora Innovation · Robotics · San Francisco, CA · MarComms

This role is for a Staff Digital & Social Media Marketing Manager at Aurora Innovation, a self-driving technology company. The manager will lead digital marketing strategies, oversee organic and paid channels, manage social media presence, and utilize AI tools to scale marketing efforts. The role requires extensive experience in digital and social media marketing, strong analytical skills, and the ability to manage cross-functional teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be the digital subject matter expert to a diverse group of internal stakeholders and cross-functional partners. Have your finger on the pulse of all of our digital activities and be able to field questions and make recommendations to pivot when issues arise.
  2. Refine and own the ongoing strategy and execution of our omnichannel digital marketing strategy - aligned with our goals to drive brand awareness, audience engagement, and lead generation.
  3. Lead the planning and execution of always-on and digital media campaigns across paid and owned channels. Own creative briefs to make content and assets with our creative team and external partners and vendors. Partner with our media agency to select media mix, deploy, and optimize digital campaigns.
  4. Oversee SEO, AEO, SEM to ensure strong digital presence and search visibility that drives traffic to our owned channels.
  5. Own content strategy and content updates to aurora.tech on an ongoing basis. Build new content modules and pages. Partner with customer marketing to make our website a more effective customer education and lead generation platform. Work with our web development agency to make back-end improvements and enhancements.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in digital marketing within an agency, brand, or B2B marketing setting.
  • Proven track record as a digital marketing generalist with deep expertise in digital media, social media, and content development.
  • Strong proficiency with digital marketing tools (like GA4, GTM, Sprout Social, Semrush) and ad platforms (like LinkedIn, Google).
  • Expertise in social media-specific content creation and management across platforms including LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, as well as website CMS.
  • Experience overseeing paid media campaigns and using data analytics for optimization.
  • Able to build trust and drive clear consensus with diverse teams and stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to work well under pressure and effectively manage change, ambiguity and shifting priorities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Flexibility to travel and work across time zones as needed.

Nice to have

  • Passion to learn, or familiarity with, the autonomous technology, logistics, or freight industry.
  • Basic knowledge of design tools and/or the ability to visually communicate new concepts and basic mockups through AI tools.

What the JD emphasized

  • Leverage and/or build AI tools that scale our digital marketing efforts in areas like social listening, community engagement, and copy/content development.
  • Proven ability to work well under pressure and effectively manage change, ambiguity and shifting priorities.