# Social Media Manager - Agency Contract

**Company**: Playground Games
**Location**: Leamington Spa
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Gaming
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130744

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## Description

Playground Games is looking for a Social Media Manager to work alongside their talented Fable team in Leamington Spa on an agency contract.

As a Social Media Manager, you will help shape how we engage with the Fable community across social and community channels. You will create engaging content, foster meaningful conversations with players, and help understand community sentiment, while partnering with teams across the studio to deliver an outstanding player experience.

This position is offered on an agency contract, with the successful candidate employed by their trusted agency partner and assigned to work with Playground Games. The role is based at their state-of-the-art studio in Royal Leamington Spa, operating under a hybrid working model with a minimum of three days per week in the studio.

**Responsibilities:**

- Support the day-to-day management of social and community channels, delivering proactive and reactive engagement.

- Manage internal asset requests to support content and community activity.

- Help manage the influencer programme, including onboarding new members, sharing assets, and maintaining day-to-day relationships and communications with creators.

- Support and engage player communities across many social channels, working with 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.

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

**Benefits:** No benefits mentioned.

## Skills

### Required
- community management
- social media
- digital communications
- Discord
- Steam
- social listening
- reporting
- influencer programmes
- community activations

### Nice to have
- experience supporting the launch of a major game title, DLC, or other significant content release

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