Social Media Manager (Contract)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; hybrid work with attendance one day per week

Salary: $74.36–$111.58 USD per hour

Company

hirify.global creates PlayStation hardware, network services, and entertainment experiences for more than 100 million people worldwide.

What you will do

• Help lead social channel strategy and daily execution for multiple consumer-facing entertainment brands and social handles.
• Own editorial planning, publishing calendars, content creation, and execution across X, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Facebook, and other platforms.
• Develop platform-native content ideas, social copy, video treatments, and light hands-on asset edits tailored to each brand’s voice and audience.
• Coordinate approvals, timelines, workflows, campaigns, content drops, brand moments, and partnership initiatives with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support end-to-end execution, including proposals, publishing, optimization, reporting, and refinement of channel strategy based on performance learnings.
• Prepare executive-level presentations and reports and provide occasional off-site or off-hours support for launches, announcements, interviews, conferences, and events.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in social media management, content strategy, channel strategy, or related digital communications.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience managing large consumer-facing entertainment, media, or lifestyle brands and multiple social identities simultaneously.
• Strong knowledge of native social platforms, publishing tools, channel best practices, current trends, copywriting, and publishing workflows.
• Strong project management, communication, organizational, and stakeholder coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams.
• Strong understanding of gaming audiences and culture; direct gaming experience is strongly preferred.

Nice to have

• Portfolio or work samples demonstrating social strategy, platform fluency, and executional range.
• Experience with partnership, licensor/licensee, or multi-stakeholder social workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• One-year contract role within the PlayStation organization.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits are available.
• Work involves collaboration across internal and external partners in a fast-moving environment.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage.

Hiring process

• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.