Director, Social and Content Marketing - Overwatch | Irvine, CA

Irvine, CA (On-site)

$137K/yr – $253K/yrDirector/Executive12+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own the global social, content, and community strategy and drive franchise growth by leading cross-functional teams, shaping executive decisions, and coordinating live campaigns across channels.

  • Set long term S&C vision and measurement frameworks
  • Lead social, editorial, influencer, and community functions
  • Influence senior leadership and shape marketing priorities

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define global S&C vision by establishing and continuously evolving a long term strategy for social, content, and community that drives sustainable franchise growth, engagement, and player connection worldwide.
  • Lead multi-functional teams across social, editorial, influencer, and community functions, ensuring alignment, high performance, and clear accountability for outcomes.
  • Influence executive stakeholders by presenting strategies, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership to drive decisions that shape franchise marketing priorities and long term growth.
  • Drive integrated marketing strategy by partnering with Brand, Product Marketing, Comms, and regional teams to shape and execute cohesive go to market strategies across all social and content channels.
  • Own performance and KPIs by establishing measurement frameworks, tracking performance across platforms and campaigns, and applying insights to optimize engagement, audience growth, and overall marketing impact.
  • Lead agency and partner ecosystem by overseeing agency and external partner relationships to ensure high quality execution, strategic alignment, and efficient delivery across all marketing initiatives.
  • Manage budgets and resources by owning and allocating marketing budgets while prioritizing investments across campaigns, creators, and platforms to maximize return and align with strategic business objectives.
  • Lead tentpole campaign strategy by defining and overseeing the development and execution of major franchise marketing moments across social and content channels to drive global engagement and impact.
  • Drive live ops excellence by ensuring social, content, and community strategies are fully integrated into live service rhythms to support ongoing player engagement and content performance.
  • Strengthen cross franchise collaboration by partnering with social and content leaders across franchises to share insights, scale best practices, and improve operational efficiency and strategic alignment.

Requirements

  • 12 years experience in social or influencer marketing at an agency or in-house within Gaming, Entertainment or Consumer Tech industries and a minimum or 7 years of direct supervisory experience.
  • Demonstrated success building brand-defining social and influencer strategies that cut through culture and create broad fandom.
  • Proven success leading high-impact, innovative social and digital campaigns.
  • Experience operating within or collaborating with large-scale organizations, driving success across multiple stakeholders and creative or strategic marketing functions.
  • Familiarity with the gaming industry and a genuine passion for gaming.
  • Experience managing multi-layered reporting structures across multiple disciplines.
  • Comfort and capability representing their work and function with senior management and executive leadership.
  • Appetite for all things digital, social and influencer -- up to date on the latest platforms and technologies and desire to identify opportunities for strategic brand involvement.
  • Deep knowledge of social media platforms, tools, and best practices for content creation, engagement, and community building.
  • Ability to think creatively and outside the box, leveraging cultural trends and social moments to make a brand stand out.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
  • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
  • Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
  • Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
  • If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
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Blizzard Entertainment is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software. After establishing the Blizzard Entertainment label in 1994, the company quickly became one of the most popular and well-respected makers of computer games. By focusing on creating well-designed, highly enjoyable entertainment experiences, Blizzard Entertainment has maintained an unparalleled reputation for quality since its inception.At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: Crafting Genre-Defining Games and Legendary Worlds for All to Share. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.Blizzard Entertainment is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Director, Social and Content Marketing - Overwatch | Irvine, CA

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