Social Media Manager - Agency Contract

UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelContract

Posted 20 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the social and community initiatives across channels, coordinating influencer activity and creator relationships, while leveraging listening data for insights and partnering with external teams to support activations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the day-to-day management of our social and community channels, delivering proactive and reactive engagement.
  • Manage internal asset requests to support our content and community activity.
  • Help manage our influencer programme, including onboarding new members, sharing assets and maintaining day-to-day relationships and communications with creators.
  • Support and engage our player communities across many social channels, working with our external partners on moderation, community support and activations including competitions, polls and user-generated content initiatives.
  • Use social listening and performance data to support ongoing reporting and community insights, alongside helping with website updates and maintenance.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in community management, social media or digital communications within the video games industry, with a strong understanding of platforms such as Discord and Steam.
  • Excellent written communication and organisational skills, with experience engaging communities, managing multiple activities and building positive relationships with players and creators.
  • Experience with social listening, reporting, influencer programmes and community activations, with the ability to use insights to support effective community engagement.
  • A genuine passion for video games.

Preferred

  • Experience supporting the launch of a major game title, DLC or other significant content release is a plus.
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Playground Games

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Playground Games was established in 2010, bringing together some of the most experienced and talented developers from the UK industry, with the vision to create genre-defining titles for a global audience. Since then, we’ve created five critically-acclaimed, award-winning hits; our Horizon games have garnered more than one hundred awards and have been played by many millions of fans. Today, Playground has three world-class studios in Leamington Spa. In our original HQ, we continue to support and grow the huge, vibrant Horizon community. In our new studios on the other side of town, we are excited to be developing Fable, a new beginning for the legendary franchise.

Founded in 2010
Old Milverton, Cubbington, Royal Leamington Spa, England, GBR
545 employees (284 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

Social Media Manager median pay in the United Kingdom

£40K/yr

Most pay falls between £35K and £47K. Based on 78 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
95.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.2%
Direct
52.2%
Referral
7.9%
Social
0.2%
Paid
2.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~548
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Social Media Manager - Agency Contract

Playground Games · UK · Hybrid