Associate Social Media Manager, eCommerce (Contract)
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About the Team
The Crunchyroll Store team is dedicated to super serving anime fans by offering the best selection of merchandise, seamless user experience, and outstanding customer service. Collectively, we are responsible for all facets of operating a small business from the ground up including sales, marketing, product development, logistics, and more.
Our team is built around effective communication, teamwork, and continually pushing the expectations of excellence. We embody the values of Hard Work, Integrity, Humility, Generosity, and Fun!
Crunchyroll COVID-19 Hiring Status
Crunchyroll employees are currently working from home, and we are still conducting remote interviews and hiring during this time. This role is expected to start remotely, and we’ll work closely with you as we understand every person has unique circumstances.
Location: San Francisco
Our headquarters is located in downtown San Francisco, where our group of cross-functional experts assemble to create experiences for our passionate communities.
A day in the life of our Social Media Manager, eCommerce:
The Social Media Manager, eCommerce will own the Crunchyroll Store's social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter); to include strategy, planning, posting, moderation, and reporting. This role will provide direction on promotional messaging/creatives and craft social exclusive assets with the objectives of continuous growth of our channels, acquiring performance insights, and supporting revenue goals.
- Foster a deep relationship with audiences over social media, utilizing organic marketing efforts to reach users in a meaningful and engaging way.
- Own and maintain the store's social media calendar, executing across all of our store channels and leading a strategy that supports revenue and growth goals.
- Supervise community responses and commentary, serving as the voice of the store, and work with our eCommerce and Customer Service team to assist fans.
- Report on performance and utilize data to inform and improve social media strategy and planning.
- Stay up-to-date with new platforms, content types, and practices to innovate our store social efforts.
- Collaborate across the eCommerce and Marketing teams on the effective use of the social channels with creative assets, timeliness of posting new inventory, and what product trends we are seeing with social audiences.
- Lead integrated efforts with our Crunchyroll (main) and various anime title pages, coordinating and continuously optimizing a cross-posting strategy to maximize social promotions.
About You:
- 5+ years of experience in social media or community marketing, with a preference toward work in eCommerce and/or direct-to-consumer business.
- Experience marketing strategically across the major social media platforms; to include how to tailor content by platform and what kind of content works best to meet specific marketing or business goals.
- Shown success selling products directly through social media and tracking against revenue goals.
- Strengths with social media publishing platforms for scheduling, moderation, and reporting.
- Interested in the broader marketplace and competition. Aware of changing trends and customer behaviors that impact the way we market.
- Excited by fast-paced environment and passionate about apparel/or the anime space.
- Respect for anime and its lifestyle and culture, familiarity with fandom communities.
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About Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll connects anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories through the content they love. Best known as a top streaming service delivering AVOD and SVOD content, Crunchyroll also provides experiences to deepen fan engagement and community through social, events, games, consumer products, content distribution, content creation, and manga publishing.
Fans have access to the largest collection of licensed anime through Crunchyroll, Anime Digital Network (in partnership with Citel, a subsidiary of Média-Participations), and Anime on Demand video streaming services, translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast. Crunchyroll's services also extend to licensing of theatrical, TV, home video, and consumer product rights.
Fans engage further with events (including owned events Crunchyroll Expo, Anime Awards, Crunchyroll Movie Nights, KAZÉ Movie Nights), consumer products through eCommerce and retail partners (Crunchyroll, KAZÉ, AV Visionen), Crunchyroll Games, KAZÉ Games, and manga (KAZÉ Manga, Crunchyroll Manga app, Crunchyroll Manga Store).
Crunchyroll was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Chisinau, Lausanne, and Berlin (AV Visionen). VRV (U.S.) and Eye See Movies (Germany) are also Crunchyroll brands.
Our Company Values
You’ll see these in action if we’re lucky enough to have you:
- Embrace Originality - We’ve taken different paths to get here -- but we’re in it together to win in anime
- Fuel Passion - Understanding fandom makes us better at what we do
- Champion Change - We’re agile and see change as an opportunity to lead by example
- Hustle Intentionally - As fans of our fans, we always want to do more -- but we’re deliberate in our path
- Elevate Anime - We’re showing the world how special anime is
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