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# Social Media Specialist at Loft Orbital Solutions

- **Company:** Loft Orbital Solutions
- **Location:** Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/loftorbital/6217c1e4-19c3-45f0-a565-d3d27ac60391

## Job description

Wanna join the adventure?

Orbitworks is looking for a creative and hands-on Social Media Specialist to own and grow our social media presence across key platforms.

This role combines content creation, community engagement, paid social and performance analytics. You’ll help tell the Orbitworks story, showcase the people and technology behind our missions, and build an engaged audience around one of the UAE’s most exciting space companies.

We’re looking for someone who is equally comfortable writing a compelling caption, developing a content calendar, launching a paid campaign and digging into the data to understand what’s working.

## What You’ll Do

Content Creation & Management

- Own and manage the monthly social media content calendar across LinkedIn, Instagram and other relevant platforms.
- Create engaging, on-brand content including copy, carousels, graphics briefs and short-form video concepts.
- Turn company milestones, technical achievements, events and employee stories into engaging social content.
- Partner with Marketing, Communications, Design and internal teams to align content with business priorities and campaigns.
- Maintain a consistent brand voice and visual identity across our social channels.
- Plan, launch and manage paid campaigns and boosted content across platforms including LinkedIn and Meta.
- Build and optimize audience targeting strategies using demographic, interest-based, behavioural, lookalike and retargeting audiences.
- Monitor campaign budgets and performance and continuously optimize for stronger results.
- Track key metrics including reach, impressions, engagement, follower growth, CTR and paid campaign performance.
- Prepare regular performance reports with clear insights and recommendations.
- Use data to test and improve content, creative formats, targeting and campaign performance.
- Stay current with platform trends, algorithm changes and evolving social media best practices.

## What We’re Looking For

- 1–3 years of experience managing social media accounts in a professional environment.
- Hands-on experience with LinkedIn Campaign Manager and Meta Ads Manager.
- Experience with audience targeting, segmentation and retargeting.
- Strong copywriting and visual storytelling skills.
- Experience creating and maintaining structured content calendars.
- Familiarity with social media scheduling and management platforms such as Hootsuite, Metricool, Buffer or similar.
- Good understanding of social analytics and the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.

## Nice to Have

- Experience working in technology, aerospace, space, engineering or another technical industry.
- Familiarity with CRM-based custom audiences and retargeting workflows.
- Basic graphic design capabilities using Canva, Adobe Creative Suite or similar tools.
- Experience with A/B testing content and paid creative.
- Understanding of SEO principles and how they apply to social content.
- Experience creating or coordinating short-form video content.

Orbitworks' mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbital's heritage, Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.

## About Loft Orbital Solutions

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Loft Orbital is a space infrastructure company that provides simple, fast, and reliable ways for customers to deploy and operate physical payloads and software missions in low Earth orbit.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C – $170M round announced, total funding $326.9M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with additional offices in Golden, Colorado and Toulouse, France)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not listed in provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Defense and Space Manufacturing
- **Target Customers**: B2B – commercial space startups, established aerospace and defense primes, cloud and AI companies, and government agencies worldwide (including U..S, France, Canada)
- **Mission/Purpose**: “Space Made Simple” – enabling customers to focus on their mission while Loft handles end-to-end space infrastructure

## Products & Services
- **Physical Payload Missions**: Loft integrates, tests, launches, and operates customer hardware payloads on its standardized satellite platforms (e.g.., optical, hyperspectral, RF sensors).
- **Virtual / Software-Only Missions**: Customers can deploy software directly to Loft’s on-orbit satellites to process and analyze data in near-real time (e..g., AI edge processing via partners like SkyServe, SSCI).
- **YAM (Yet Another Mission)** satellites: A fleet of multi-mission satellite buses available for rapid deployment; Loft maintains an inventory of pre-assembled platforms.
- **Hub & Cockpit**: Proprietary hardware and software abstraction layers that simplify payload integration and satellite operations.
- **Loft Federal**: A FOCI-mitigated division focused on US national security space missions (only US citizens).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (total funding $326..9M – LinkedIn)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding $326..9M (8 rounds incl. $170M Series C); Annual Revenue estimated $27..8M (LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead seed investor Uncork Capital; partners include Honeywell (Canadian Space Agency mission), Wyvern (Dragonette constellation), Esper, Helsing, SmartSat CRC, EarthDaily ($150M constellation), SkyServe, SSCI, Airbus OneWeb Satellites (15 bus order).
- **Growth Signals**: 270 employees (+14.9% YoY), 41k+ LinkedIn followers (+41.4% YoY), 14 satellites launched, 60+ customers, 15+ AI missions on-orbit, selected as prime contractor for France’s first space-based radar imaging program.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Standardized Satellite Platform**: Uses a commodity satellite bus with custom hardware/software layers, eliminating non-recurring engineering and enabling “turnkey” plug-and-play.
- **Speed to Orbit**: Maintains an inventory of pre-assembled buses and pre-booked launches, drastically reducing lead times compared to traditional aerospace.
- **Flight Heritage**: Over 600 copies of the bus in orbit today, providing proven reliability
- **Misson Agnosticism**: Can fly any payload that fits within standard platform constraints; supports both physical and virtual missions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand AI Edge Computing**: Deploying onboard AI processing (e..g., STORM from SkyServe, POET experiment for SDA) to enable near-real-time decision making.
- **National Security Growth**: Loft Federal continues to win US government contracts.
- **Constellation Scale-Up**: Partnering with EarthDaily for $150M satellite constellation; ordering 15 additional buses from Airbus OneWeb.
- **International Partnerships**: Strengthening ties with France (prime contractor for radar imaging) and Canada (SmartSat CRC, Honeywell).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, respectful, professional environment described as “non-negotiable.” Rated 4..5/5 on LinkedIn (35 reviews) with Culture 4.5, Compensation 4.1, Work-Life 3.6, Career 4.2.
- **Wor Environment**: Distributed team with core hubs in San Francisco, Golden (CO), and Toulouse. Supports remote collaboration but roles may require on-site presence (per job listings). Recruiting process involves intro call, technical screening, challenge, and hiring panel.
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge space infrastructure with a fast-growing company; involvement in both commercial and government missions; international team.

## Sources
1. [loftorbital..com](https://loftorbital.com/)
2. [loftorbital.com/about/](https://loftorbital.com/about/)
3. [loftorbital.com/careers/](https://loftorbital.com/careers/)
4. [jobs.lever.co/loftorbital](https://jobs.lever.co/loftorbital/)
5. [linkedin.com/company/loft-orbital](https://www.linkedin.com/company/loft-orbital)

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