Content And Community Specialist

We are looking for a Content and Community Specialist to join our small but growing team. You will collaborate with our development team to produce exciting social media marketing content and campaigns for our open world town building game. Your role will involve planning out a content calendar, coordinating and developing marketing content, monitoring campaigns, and interacting with our audience through our social media content.

This role is available as an in-person (San Francisco, CA), remote or hybrid position. It will be structured initially as a 6-month contract with the potential to convert into a full-time role.

What We're Building

Imagine building a game that you would gladly play with your friends or family. We are creating a game that enables communities of players to build and nurture cozy virtual worlds together.

Games are a powerful way to build communities because they easily supply the core building blocks: strong identity and shared purpose. We use intentional game design decisions to foster community with a goal of bringing joy to players through meaningful cooperative experiences.

Come join Uncommon Games and help us achieve this goal!

About Uncommon Games

Uncommon Games is a venture-backed studio founded by passionate industry veterans. We have extensive experience developing games that have been played by millions of players around the world.

We strive to cultivate an inspiring and supportive work environment. We’re proud to offer:

• Meaningful creative input into the game.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Healthy work-life balance.
• Commitment to growth and learning: we play games together every Friday!
• Professional autonomy and radical ownership.

Responsibilities

The main responsibility for this role is to produce awe-inspiring content that clicks with our audience. We want to reach hundreds of thousands of people on TikTok and other social media platforms.

Other important responsibilities include…

• Ideate, plan, and execute social media marketing campaigns across various platforms (particularly TikTok) with art, technical, and creative support from the development team.
• Collaborate with creative leadership to align marketing and game direction, while providing product feedback and requests to optimize marketing performance.
• Develop and execute social media and digital marketing strategies aligned with overall studio objectives.
• Establish social media presence guidelines, manage player communications across social media channels, and incubate our early player community.
• Create engaging and relevant content for social media platforms including posts, videos, images, and infographics, ensuring consistency with brand guidelines and tone of voice.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, social media tools, and emerging platforms. Monitor and report on social media performance using analytics tools, providing insights and recommendations for improvement.

Requirements / Qualifications

The main qualification for this role is deep experience growing at least one social media presence to significant scale.

Other important qualifications include…

• Strong copywriting and content creation skills with a keen eye for detail. As a remote first team, we have the additional challenge of trying to keep coordinated across time zones and geographies so this is particularly important to us.
• In-depth knowledge of various social media platforms, their features, and best practices for organic and paid marketing.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions to optimize campaigns.
• Proven professional experience in a social media or digital marketing role with tangible results.
• Familiarity with applications and tools used for digital asset creation (e.g., Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc.).

Additional Consideration

You’ll be an exceptional fit for this role if you are excited about the role, meet the above qualifications, and also really enjoy games.

Other factors that are valued for this role but are not required include…

• Experience developing games with creative, sandbox, open world, or cross platform aspects.
• Enjoy playing cooperative, multiplayer games.
• Experience in various stages of the game development lifecycle including prototyping, to pre-production, to production, to live operations.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field.
• Basic familiarity with game engines (i.e. Unity), capturing gameplay footage, and using game assets for marketing.

Application Process

Please email [email protected] with the subject line “Content and Community Specialist” with your resume / LinkedIn profile and a link to social media content or other representative work. While a portfolio is not required for this position, it will help with our evaluation.