Director, Social Media - Minecraft

Redmond, WA (On-site)

$131K/yr – $272K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

This role leads Minecraft's global social strategy across platforms, setting creative standards and aligning social with business goals. It requires strong leadership, data-driven optimization, and close collaboration with analytics, product, and marketing teams. Preferred candidates have knowledge of Minecraft and experience managing global brand programs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the global social media vision, strategy, and operating model for @Minecraft, ensuring social media is a core driver of business impact, not just a publishing function.
  • Lead end-to-end Minecraft social strategy across all major platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, and Pinterest, with a platform-native approach to content, cadence, and creative formats.
  • Set and evolve creative quality bars, ensuring Minecraft’s social presence remains culturally relevant, innovative, and distinctive while scaling across a high-volume, global content ecosystem.
  • Translate business priorities into social strategies across the full franchise, including the base game (Vanilla Minecraft), Marketplace, IP expansion, entertainment and experiences, consumer products, partnerships, and Minecraft Education.
  • Establish clear success metrics that connect social performance to business outcomes, including acquisition, engagement, monetization, and franchise health, in close partnership with analytics and business teams.
  • Lead a high-performing social media organization, defining roles, responsibilities, workflows, and decision-making frameworks that enable speed, accountability, and creative excellence.
  • Drive a social-first mindset across marketing, product, and partner teams, influencing upstream planning so social considerations are embedded early in go-to-market strategies.
  • Contribute to editorial planning and prioritization, balancing always-on franchise storytelling with tentpole moments, product launches, and cultural opportunities.
  • Partner closely with creative, influencer, affiliate, brand, product, media, and regional marketing teams to ensure alignment, integration, and clear ownership across channels.
  • Use data and insights to continuously optimize strategy, content mix, and resource allocation, scaling what works and sunsetting efforts that do not deliver impact.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 5+ years integrated marketing (e.g., digital, relationship, social media, campaign), event management, marketing strategy, business planning, marketing operations, or related work experience OR equivalent experience.
  • Master's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 3+ years social media marketing OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 7+ years social media marketing OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years people management experience.
  • Knowledge of Minecraft; and understanding of the Minecraft community and franchise.
  • Experience working with global brands and practical experience creating both global and regional strategies.
  • Self-starter that has experience working with executive leadership.

Preferred

  • Master's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 3+ years social media marketing OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 7+ years social media marketing OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years people management experience.
  • Knowledge of Minecraft; and understanding of the Minecraft community and franchise.
  • Experience working with global brands and practical experience creating both global and regional strategies.
  • Self-starter that has experience working with executive leadership.
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Mojang Studios

Mojang Studios is a Microsoft-owned game studio based in Stockholm (Sweden) and Redmond (WA) with additional locations in London, Shanghai, and Tokyo as well as a partially remote workforce. We created Minecraft, the sandbox video game turned franchise that now includes two more games, novels, board games, apparel, and much more.We believe in the power of play and our mission is to build a better world through our work. At our studios, you’ll meet passionate and welcoming people with the same goal: to create games and products with a positive impact. Four core values guide everything we do:Fuel Passion.Minecraft encourages players to stay sharp and constantly evolve. We mirror that by bringing together enthusiastic people who are eager to innovate in their fields and giving them the resources to reach their goals. We’re passionate about our industry and strive to empower our employees and future generations of gaming professionals.Create Fun.We aim to create fun, enriching experiences for our players, whether they’re playing our games, learning in Minecraft Education, or discovering a new product. Thanks to our incredibly talented creator community and Minecraft Marketplace, the fun is virtually endless and there’s something for everyone in our blocky universe.Celebrate Creativity. Creativity is at the core of Minecraft, whether you’re making art in Creative mode or finding clever ways to get through the night in Survival mode. Fresh ideas, out-of-the-box thinking, and new perspectives are what allows us to evolve the franchise and keep surprising our players after more than a decade of Minecraft. Craft together. Minecraft welcomes everyone because we believe that we’re better together. Our players’ feedback and the work of our community creators have made Minecraft what it is today. To support collaboration in our studios, we’ve built comfy, connected spaces that allow our local and remote teams to work closely together.

Founded in 2009
Stockholm, Stockholm County, SWE
1.5K employees (353 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
25.8M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$463.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
60.7%
Direct
35.1%
Referral
3.2%
Social
1%
Paid
0.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
101 (7% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

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