Sony
Social Media Manager (Contract)
United States, San Mateo, CA
Sponsorship not specified$74k-$112kDetected 12 days ago
Project ManagementContent MarketingSocial Media MarketingWritingCommunicationPublic SpeakingOrganizational Skills
About the role
- The ideal candidate is equally comfortable thinking strategically and executing tactically.
- It requires strong social instincts, excellent judgment, a highly organized approach to process, and comfort operating in a collaborative environment with a range of stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Help lead channel strategy and day-to-day execution across multiple consumer-facing entertainment brands and social handles.
- Co-own editorial planning, publishing calendars, content creation and execution across channels including X, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, and others as needed.
- Partner across teams to manage approvals, timelines, and workflows for campaigns, content drops, brand moments, and partnership-related initiatives.
- Support end-to-end social execution, from strategy, planning, proposal development to publishing, optimization, and reporting.
- Coordinate across departments and stakeholders to keep projects moving, maintain alignment, and ensure content is accurate, on-brand, and delivered on time.
- Help establish and maintain new processes, clear approval streams, workflows, SLAs, and responsibilities across internal and external partners via documentation and socializing
- Contribute to content creation and be comfortable with light hands-on asset editing and creative support where needed.
- Support occasional real-time, off-site, off-hours needs around key moments, launches, announcements, or special projects. This could include but is not limited to content capture, in-person interviews, hands-on events, conferences, and beyond.
- Create executive level presentations and reports to showcase work, learnings, and business impact.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of experience in social media management, content strategy, channel strategy, or related digital communications work.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Proven experience managing large, consumer-facing entertainment, media, or lifestyle brands.
- Experience working across multiple brands, accounts, or social identities simultaneously with strong attention to detail and process.
- Strong understanding of native social platforms, publishing tools, channel best practices, and current social trends.
- Experience writing copy, managing publishing workflows, and executing content plans across multiple channels.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with strong hands-on execution.
- Experience navigating approval flows and coordinating with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Strong understanding of gaming audiences and culture is highly valued
- direct gaming experience is strongly preferred.
- Portfolio or work samples that demonstrate strong social thinking, platform fluency, and executional range are a plus.
- Experience with partnership, licensor/licensee, or multi-stakeholder social workflows is a plus.
Compensation
- At SIE, working with our partners, we consider several factors when setting each role's base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Company info
- Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
- Sony Interactive Entertainment isn't just the Best Place to Play - it's also the Best Place to Work.
- Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand.
- As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we're part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence.
- SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual (IP) in the world.
- Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
- Social Media Manager (Contract)
- San Mateo, CA (Hybrid/1 day a week)
- What We're Looking For
Equal opportunity
- Statement:
- Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
- We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
- Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
This listing is sourced directly from Sony's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.