Social Media & Community Manager - Filmmaking & Imaging Products

• Do you have a passion for filmmaking, and live and breathe the film or photography culture?
• Can you harness social media platforms expertly to drive our camera product categories?
• Are you ready to utilise your entrepreneurial approach and elevate your profile in the company and industry?

If so, we want to hear from you. Please read on and apply!

We’re seeking a Social Media & Community Manager to be responsible for the EU wide Imaging business social media accounts, ensuring consistent, relevant posting, and driving growth in both follower numbers and engagement of the community.

You will create and prepare compelling content that resonates with the target audience. Additionally, you should be engaging with targeted online communities/influencers and attending key events to capture unique content, while fostering collaborations that enhance the presence and impact of our social media channels.

Our ideal candidate will be someone who wants to fully immerse themselves into the exciting worlds of filmmaking and photography, and be adaptable across a variety of industry applications with our products. This role will require you to be on site three days, with two days from home each week, and you should be ready to travel, as you will attend a number of major film and photography events across Europe each year, as well as ad-hoc travel for other needs.

You Will

Social Account management

• Oversee B2B and B2C social media channels ensuring a consistent and engaging presence across platforms.
• Collaborate with the marketing and content management teams, refining strategies based on the latest social media trends, and maintain communication across all internal teams in Consumer, Cine, B2B Imaging, and Alpha Universe teams to ensure alignment and strategic consistency.
• Leverage industry knowledge in photography and filmmaking to drive impactful content, market research and curiosity will be key drivers of success.

Content creation

• Foster/create relationships with creators, filmmakers, and photographers to drive content for our channels.
• Attend key events and capture on-site video and photo content to showcase on our social media channels.
• Monitor and collaborate local branch activities, and oversee and ensure high-quality, neutral content writing and approval processes.

Account reporting / statistics

• Set yearly growth targets for followers, views, and engagement to drive continuous improvement and success.
• Produce regular account performance reports, along with detailed monthly updates on activities and results.
• Take data-driven actions based on performance results, following the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle for continuous optimization.

You Will Bring

• Demonstrable experience in social media and community management for business-to-consumer, driving social media growth across platforms.
• Industry knowledge of cinematography and movies, and basic understanding of photography industry.
• Skills in video production and photography basics, as well as video/photo editing skills (reels, stories, and regular posts).
• Strong sense of ownership & accountability on content quality and brand perception with customer.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a multicultural environment.

Your new office

Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our own Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack (useful if you’ve made the most of the Cycle-to-Work scheme), or if you will use public transport we have a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between train station and the office at peak times.

Life at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.

We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.

You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contribute to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com or by mail to: Sony Europe B.V, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.