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Social Media Specialist

Position Summary

Cold Iron is seeking an experienced and creative Social Media Specialist to join us in creating our next game for consoles and PC! As a Social Media Specialist, you will be a key part of our marketing team, helping to monitor and connect with our audience, increase brand perception, and improve brand awareness about our company and games through social media. This position is fully remote and open to applicants across the country.

Are you excited about crafting social media posts and strategies to get our community pumped about upcoming releases? Are you a copywriting expert who can write compelling and informative content? Do you love digging through data to figure out what’s working and what’s not?

Here’s the most important one: Do you do it all for the game, because you know that your talents are needed to make sure that even the best development teams get an awesome experience out the door?

Awesome. Come join our creative, collaborative studio where you will be part of a tight, integrated team of game developers.

Your Day to Day

You can expect to be responsible and accountable for the following:

• Develop, implement and manage our social media strategy
• Define most important social media KPIs
• Write long- and short-form social media messages that are informative and appealing
• Manage and oversee social media content
• Measure the success of every social media campaign
• Use data to analyze what’s working, what’s not, and reinforce or refocus key messages accordingly
• Create high level reports outlining strategic development, success and failures, and suggestions for improvement
• Stay up to date with the latest social media best practices and technologies
• Use social media marketing tools such as Buffer, Hootsuite, etc.
• Collaborate across numerous departments to produce the best content that is the most consistent with our brand
• Monitor SEO and user engagement and suggest content optimization
• Communicate with industry professionals and influencers via social media to create a strong network

Your Career Progression

Do the best work of your career! No, really, that’s what we expect of you. Come aboard and work with industry veterans all working to improve their craft and become better game developers. The small team atmosphere allows you to contribute more and have greater ownership over what you do day to day.

Requirements

• 3 years of experience as a Social Media Specialist or similar role
• Social Media Strategist using social media for brand awareness and impressions
• Excellent knowledge of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, and other social media best practices
• Understanding of SEO and web traffic metrics
• Experience with doing audience and buyer persona research
• Good understanding of social media KPIs
• Familiarity with web design and publishing
• Excellent multitasking skills
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Would Love to See

• Prior experience in the gaming industry

Education

• BA degree in Marketing or relevant field preferred

Location

• This position is fully remote and open to applicants across the country.

About our Location

Cold Iron is a team of passionate game developers located in San Jose, California. We’re a diverse group of veterans with decades of experience developing and launching award-winning shooter, MMO, and action titles on PC and console. We launched Aliens: Fireteam Elite in August 2021 to critical acclaim and to a very devoted fan base.

Exceptional employee benefits, Remote work; 18 days PTO first year in addition to 11 paid holidays plus company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s Day; Robust Medical, Dental, Vision insurance coverage for entire family; Company matched 401k vested immediately; Flex Spending Accounts, annual stipend to help cover work from home expenses, ultra-creative environment.