Manager, Social & Content Marketing | Cork, IRL

Team Name:

Marketing

Job Title:

Manager, Social & Content Marketing | Cork, IRL

Requisition :

R027588

Job Description:

The Manager, Social & Content Marketing, is responsible for shaping how Blizzard shows up daily across global social and community platforms. This role drives meaningful player engagement through platform strategy, real-time interaction, and community amplification. Acting as a connective layer between development, marketing, regional teams, and ambassadors, the role ensures the player's voice and sentiment are represented clearly and consistently. Success is measured by sustained engagement, cultural relevance, and trust with Blizzard's global player communities.

This role owns Blizzard-wide social engagement strategy across priority platforms, with a focus on conversation, responsiveness, and community vitality. The position partners closely with franchise teams, regional marketing, community management, and external agencies. Success requires independent judgment, expert platform knowledge, and influence without authority. The role balances proactive planning with reactive engagement in a live-ops environment. Outcomes are measured through engagement health, platform growth, and quality of player interactions.

This role is a remote position:
Cork, Ireland

Responsibilities:

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

* Lead social engagement strategy across priority platforms:
Define how Blizzard engages players on platforms such as X, Instagram, Tik Tok, Discord, Reddit, and emerging channels, ensuring consistency and relevance at scale.

* Own day-to-day platform management and execution:
Oversee publishing, moderation alignment, and real-time interaction to ensure Blizzard maintains an active, credible, and player-first presence.

* Drive Discord and Reddit expansion:
Build and nurture active communities, establishing best practices, engagement rhythms, and clear success metrics.

* Serve as voice-of-player signal owner:
Monitor sentiment, surface trends, and synthesize community feedback into actionable insights for marketing, development, and leadership partners.

* Enable dynamic and reactive engagement:
Lead rapid-response posting and conversation during live moments, announcements, and issues, balancing brand voice with player empathy.

* Partner with franchise and regional teams:
Act as a bridge between global strategy and local execution, ensuring alignment while allowing regional nuance and cultural relevance.

* Integrate ambassador programs into social ecosystems:
Elevate ambassador activity into social channels, showcasing vibrant inner-community layers that drive retention and advocacy.

* Collaborate on content strategy and production:
Partner with internal teams and external agencies to brief, produce, and publish engagement-led content that supports broader campaigns.

* Support multi-game and multi-campaign demands:
Provide engagement leadership across concurrent launches, live-ops beats, and evergreen content.

* Establish engagement KPIs and reporting:
Define success metrics, analyze performance, and continuously optimize platform and engagement approaches based on data and insight.

Minimum Requirements

* 12+ years of experience in social media, digital engagement, or community-adjacent marketing roles.

* Demonstrated expertise managing global social platforms and high-following player or consumer communities.

* Proven ability to operate independently as a subject-matter expert influencing cross-functional partners.

* Strong experience translating audience sentiment and data into strategic recommendations.

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Bonus:

* Experience in gaming, entertainment, or live-service consumer products.

* Hands-on expertise with Social Media content, Discord, Reddit, and creator- or ambassador-driven ecosystems.

* Familiarity with social listening, analytics, and community intelligence tools.

* Experience working with global or regional marketing teams.

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Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and Star Craft, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry's most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards.

Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via , Xbox, Play Station, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

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Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of…