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Introduction

IBM seeks a passionate and experienced Social Media Manager to join the IBM Quantum team. IBM Quantum works to bring useful quantum computing to the world, and maintains a diverse team of marketing, product, and content professionals working to introduce quantum to the largest audience as it begins to enter the compute ecosystem. The perfect candidate should be a natural storyteller excited about emerging technology, deep tech, and quantum’s potential to revolutionize computing as it matures. They should be familiar how different stories, or stories told differently, can attract specific audience segments. And they should understand how a variety of content types work together to tell a cohesive story about emerging technology.

 

Your role and responsibilities

This is a social media manager role, but candidate should be eager to get their hands dirty and align content across the marketing funnel. The candidate will be primarily focused on developing and managing a comprehensive social media and content strategy across multiple channels and executive stakeholders, aligning content and CTAs with overarching business goals. This includes building and scaling brand presence, while leading the strategy, content development, and cross-channel execution of major brand announcements with measurable business impact and data. The candidate will work alongside writing, production, graphic design, and video teams to support storytelling, and they will further work cross-functionally with researchers, product teams, senior executives, and cross-company communications teams to translate complex topics into accessible, engaging narratives for social channels. They will use analytics to optimize performance, identify opportunities, and inform social media content direction.

 

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Demonstrated success growing and managing technical communities on platforms like Reddit, GitHub, and YouTube, with a focus on engagement, education, and reputation management
  • Deep understanding of the social media landscape, including new technology, communicating with appropriate voice and tone, and trends such as the use of AIDemonstrated success growing audiences on LinkedIn and other social platforms and driving high engagement through organic content strategies
  • Experience using data and analytics to influence content strategy to increase business impact.
  • Familiarity with the HPC landscape including hardware, cloud compute, AI, quantum, and how they play together
  • Understanding of content strategy and how we use content to promote a brand, attract clients, and retain users
  • Strong, fast writer with the proven ability to turn deeply technical concepts into compelling stories for a variety of audiences.
  • Familiarity with CMS Platforms (content management system), like Sprinklr, Hootsuite, Sprout, etc.
  • Familiarity with SEO and incorporating SEO best practices into content strategy
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • 5+ years of experience in social media management and/or content strategy.
  • 3+ years experience creating social media content about deep tech
  • Strategic and critical thinker.
  • Effective collaborator.
  • Self-motivated and eager to get things done
  • Innovator who thrives in fast-paced environments.
  • Natural problem solver
  • Curious researcher.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

  • Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
  • Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
  • Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
  • Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
  • Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences


We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.


This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.