Social Media Manager & Strategist - Instagram, TikTok, Facebook (US Real Estate Brand)

$10/hour | 15 hours a week | flat $650/month retainer, no time tracking | long-term

THE ROLE

I'm a real estate team lead in Pittsburgh, PA. Top 1% nationally, $115M+ sold, 119 families helped last year.

My YouTube channel has over a million views. My Instagram has 597 posts and 752 followers.

That gap is the job. My video content works when someone puts real effort into it, and social has never gotten that effort. There's no plan behind any of it. No formats, no strategy, nobody thinking about what's worth making. I post so the account isn't empty.

I'm changing that. One person owns Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok completely. You build the plan, you tell me what to film, I film it, you turn it into something worth watching. I'm the talent. You're the director.

WHAT YOU'D BE WORKING WITH

I'm not short on material. 425 homes sold across Western PA, 119 families last year, listings at every price point all around Pittsburgh, and a team with their own closings.

You also won't be dragging content out of me. I've been on camera for years and I'll shoot what you ask for. Tell me the schedule that fits the formats you pick, whether that's batch days, on-site during listings, or something else, and I'll build my calendar around it.

What's missing is someone who knows which parts are worth telling and how to tell them.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

- The plan. Recurring formats my audience recognizes, not random posts.
- The shot list and the filming rhythm. Tell me what to film, what to say, and when. You design the schedule, I'll hold it.
- Editing. My raw footage into short-form that holds attention.
- Posting and platform management. Cadence, captions, keyword and SEO, cover frames, stories, comment replies.
- Platform-specific treatment. I don't want the same file posted three times. Each platform gets what it rewards, and keeping current on that is your job.
- Team requests. My agents have a steady stream of Just Listed and Sold properties. Build a template early so these are a photo swap, not a design project. Important, but never ahead of the strategic work.
- A profile overhaul in your first month: bio, highlights, pinned posts.

THE STANDARD

Five feed posts a week, three of them video, two cut from footage we shoot for the purpose. Stories running consistently. Comments answered inside 24 hours.

That's the floor, not the goal. Those 597 posts prove volume alone does nothing. If a post isn't good enough for your own portfolio, don't publish it.

Fifteen hours is tight for that list and I know it. If something has to give, it's volume, never quality.

To be clear about how the money works: this is a flat monthly retainer, not hourly billing, so a heavy week doesn't become a bigger invoice. But if we get a few months in and we both agree the work has outgrown 15 hours, we'll talk about moving to 20 and the pay moves with it. I'm not looking to squeeze 20 hours of work out of a 15 hour contract.

First 30 days are different. Build the templates, dial in the formats, and get it right. If your full 15 hours goes into two excellent videos and a system we can repeat, that's a win.

WHO I'M LOOKING FOR

You do not need real estate experience. I mean that. I'll teach you my industry in a week and give you everything you need to understand my business. What I can't teach is how to make a stranger stop scrolling. If you've grown a US personal brand in any niche, fitness, food, finance, travel, I want to hear from you.

This is a social media manager job first. You'll edit and design as part of it, and you need to be genuinely good at both, but I'm hiring you for judgment about what to make and why. If your pitch is turnaround time and effects, this isn't the role.

- You've grown a US-based personal brand or business account and can show me the numbers.
- You think in formats and hooks, not posts. You'll tell me what to make, not ask me what I want.
- You have opinions and you share them. I expect options and a recommendation, not a question back to me. If my idea is boring, say so.
- Strong design eye. Premium, modern, current. No cheap-looking templates.
- You edit your own short-form and it's good. Tight cuts, clean captions, no dead air.
- No AI slop. I can tell when a caption was written by ChatGPT, and so can everyone else. The writing has to sound like me.
- Reliable internet, backup power, and a machine that edits video without stuttering.
- One 30-minute call per week at 8:00 AM Eastern, which is your evening.

THE DETAILS

$650 per month, paid as a flat retainer twice monthly via Wise, transfer fees covered. Prorated 13th month bonus every December. No time tracking, no screenshots. Other clients are fine by me. You bring your own editing software. I provide Canva Pro, a company email, Google Drive with room for heavy video, Meta Business Suite access, and a commercial music license.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply through OnlineJobs.ph only. Contact outside the platform will be ignored.

1) Start your message with SCROLLSTOP
2) Show me an account you've run. Yours or a client's, current or past, with real numbers. Then link your portfolio.
3) Go look at my Instagram: ---------- /tarasah. In 3 or 4 sentences, what do you think an agent like me should be known for, and why?

Shortlisted applicants get a paid test project, $50, before any offer. I don't ask for free work.