Social Media and Content Manager

About Astrocade

Astrocade is pioneering AI technology by creating advanced super-intelligence for interactive experiences delivered via a leading consumer platform. Unlike current models that generate text or video, Astrocade builds immersive interactive worlds where users can actively engage and influence outcomes. This blend of world modeling and interactive play is poised to transform entertainment, education, and social connection on a massive scale. With a rapidly expanding platform that has attracted over 30 million users shortly after launch, creators are empowered to develop games, personalized companions, adaptive learning tools, and social universes with friends. Data collected from user interactions fuels continuous AI improvements and research deployed in near real-time.

The team is composed of seasoned researchers and engineers from renowned organizations like Google Research, Meta, Stanford, and top AI startups, led by Chief Scientist Fei-Fei Li. Backed by prominent investors such as Sequoia Capital and tech luminaries, Astrocade uniquely combines cutting-edge research with consumer product impact.

Role Overview

The Social Media and Content Manager will establish and scale Astrocade's organic growth engine through engaging short-form video content. This essential role will create the content style, posting schedule, and creator collaborations that shape the viral reach of AI-generated games on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Success will come from iterative testing and data-driven refinement rather than paid advertising, making "Astrocade" synonymous with interactive AI gaming.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the entire organic short-form video presence on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, including strategy, content pillars, series development, and publishing cadence.
• Create, film, and edit videos independently using mobile-native tools, integrating human creativity and AI-generated elements.
• Experiment rigorously with various video styles such as gameplay highlights, memes, topical content, AI-centric narratives, and creator reward stories to discover viral formats and scale them.
• Curate, promote, and incentivize top user-generated content through shoutouts, leaderboards, features, and rewards that encourage community creativity.
• Identify and recruit content creators aligned with the brand, managing ongoing seeding campaigns, partnerships, briefings, deliverables, gifting, payment coordination, and tracking performance.
• Engage with audience feedback through comments and direct messages to gather sentiment insights and inform content and product strategies.

Candidate Profile

• Early-career professionals or recent graduates eager to take full ownership of a social channel.
• Demonstrated success in growing a short-form video account, personal or brand-associated, preferably leveraging short-form video (SFV) tactics.
• Strong understanding of social media algorithms and the elements that contribute to video virality, including hooks, retention, sound, and timing.
• Proficient in shooting and editing mobile-friendly videos swiftly.
• Comfortable utilizing emerging AI video creation tools.
• Highly productive, resourceful, and capable of maintaining consistent output despite initial failures and setbacks.
• Willing to appear in videos occasionally without seeking to be the primary brand face.

Additional Advantages

• Experience managing creator or influencer engagement and user-generated content campaigns.
• Passion for games and play, with an ability to appeal to broad audiences beyond traditional gamer demographics.
• Familiarity with social media analytics plus skills in design or motion graphics.
• Background in scaling social channels for youthful mobile games, entertainment apps, or creator platform startups.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary range between $100,000 and $150,000 annually, with significant equity and performance bonuses.
• Full employer coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
• Flexible paid time off and unlimited sick leave policy.
• Monthly $650 stipend for AI tools to support optimal work output.
• $500 monthly lifestyle allowance for wellness, fitness, meals, home services, and similar activities.
• $200 monthly fun allowance for hobbies, travel, games, or entertainment.
• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents; 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500 monthly childcare support.
• $2,000 allowance to set up a home workspace and $200 per month commuter benefit.
• Daily provided meals on office days along with frequent team events and offsite gatherings.
• 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.

Join Us

Become part of a groundbreaking company shaping the future of interactive entertainment at the intersection of AI and large-scale consumer engagement.