Associate Social Media Manager (Contractor) | Diablo IV | Irvine, CA

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an Associate Social Media Manager to temporarily support the Diablo IV Digital Marketing team in Irvine, CA. This contractor role will drive operational excellence across social marketing initiatives, blending project management, creative operations, and social production support.

About the role

Reporting to the Digital Marketing Manager, this contractor will manage content calendars, coordinate social asset production, track deliverables, and support project execution across multiple stakeholders. The role ensures social campaigns are delivered efficiently, risks are identified early, and publishing plans remain on track. A passion for social media and an interest in gaming communities, particularly Diablo and Blizzard audiences, is key.

This is a temporary assignment through June 30, 2027, ideally based in Irvine, CA. The position is a contingent worker role staffed through Volt.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the planning, scheduling, publishing, and execution of Diablo social content across internal teams, agency partners, first-party partners, and regional stakeholders.
• Maintain social content calendars, project documentation, and asset libraries while tracking milestones, dependencies, approvals, and potential risks to keep initiatives on schedule.
• Manage the organization, versioning, delivery, and publishing of social and marketing assets, ensuring compliance with platform requirements, publishing standards, and best practices.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for social content scheduling and stakeholder alignment, facilitating communication, creative feedback, reviews, approvals, and cross-functional coordination.
• Partner with marketing, creative, production, publishing, and regional teams to support asset development, production workflows, and timely content delivery.
• Publish content natively to social platforms as needed and support operational processes that enable effective execution of Diablo's social media strategy and campaigns.
• Provide coverage during planned and unplanned absences within the Digital Marketing and Community teams to ensure continuity across social publishing, stakeholder communications, and community-facing initiatives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in social media and/or production within the gaming or entertainment industry.
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment, coordinating across departments and stakeholders to ensure project alignment.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with experience managing schedules, documentation, and multiple concurrent projects.
• Proven ability to work proactively and independently.
• Strong understanding of social media platforms, publishing workflows, and content operations.
• Comfortable using native social publishing tools and adapting to platform-specific posting workflows when agency support is limited.
• Experience partnering with external agencies and cross-functional teams.

Bonus Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of the Diablo franchise, community, and audience.
• Familiarity with Blizzard titles and gaming audiences.
• Experience using Opal, SharePoint, Sprinklr, Airtable, Asana, Monday.com, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with social platform specifications, asset requirements, and aspect ratios.
• Project management experience.
• Experience supporting social campaigns, live-service games, or entertainment brands.
• Experience working within creative, video, broadcast, or content production environments.

Benefits

Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
• Relocation assistance if required to move geographic locations for the job.

Pay

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $63,360.00 - $117,200.00 Annual. The specific range and offer will be based on relevant experience, performance, and work location. Employees in this role may also be eligible for incentive compensation, which is not guaranteed.