Senior Community Manager, GaaS

Irvine, CA (Hybrid)

$131K/yr – $164K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own brand voice, social strategy, and community leadership for multi title GaaS IPs, coordinating with SEGA teams and external partners to drive engagement and revenue signals.

  • Brand and content strategy: shape player-facing messaging across social and communities and manage the content roadmap with cross-functional partners.
  • Community leadership: run channels, influencer relationships, and platform partnerships to grow audience, live-cast reach, and engagement metrics.
  • Insights to action: monitor sentiment and KPI trends from official channels and social data to steer campaigns, creators, and live events.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and develop the brand voice and personality for GaaS titles, including Persona5: The Phantom X, HATSUNE MIKU: COLORFUL STAGE!, and upcoming unannounced projects.
  • Collaborate with SEGA of America, SEGA of Japan, IP holders and development teams and international teams to develop globally integrated and innovate community campaigns that are aligned with strategic and financial objectives.
  • Develop, maintain, and oversee the social content roadmap calendar, ensuring promotional efforts are strategically aligned.
  • Serve as the primary community contact maintaining direct interface with development and studio groups to deliver key insights, trends and best practices
  • Define content strategy and player-facing communications across social media and community channels, including proactive engagement and reactive messaging.
  • Provide engaging written and visual content, working with internal social and creative design teams and creative agencies as necessary.
  • Manage all community and social channels for assigned products, including social media platforms (Meta, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube), forums (Reddit, Discord, owned forums) and 1st party community hub.
  • Build, manage, and sustain strategic relationships with content creators and influencers to support long-term engagement, audience amplification, and portfolio growth.
  • Act as the subject-matter expert for social platforms and tools, managing partnerships with each of the platform account managers.
  • Identify needs, problems, common opinions, and end-user sentiment through official community channels and social media, providing meaningful reporting to management
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SEGA of America, Inc. a rapidly expanding video games publisher and developer within the western market, and is the US arm of SEGA Sammy, a world leader in the provision of interactive entertainment both inside and outside the home. SEGA develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms such as Xbox, PlayStation platforms, Nintendo platforms, PC and wireless devices.

Founded in 1960
Irvine, California, USA
475 employees (191 in marketing)
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81% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$20.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.9%
Direct
36.2%
Referral
12%
Social
5%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~476

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
116 (24% of company)
Median Career Experience
12.5 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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