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Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Job Area: Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group, Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group > Marketing Communications General Summary: We are looking for a social-native marketer to join our team in a community-focused, trend-led social role. The ideal candidate will be deeply plugged into social platforms, fan communities, creator culture, and emerging formats, with the ability to identify what is gaining momentum and translate those insights into timely, brand-appropriate content opportunities. This role will support community management across owned and non-owned channels, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X, with an additional focus on creative participation: spotting trends, developing social-first ideas, drafting culturally relevant responses, and helping the team move faster against real-time moments. Reporting to the Manager of Social Content, the right candidate must be curious, proactive, creative, and able to turn community conversation into actionable content ideas. Responsibilities include: • Actively monitoring owned and non-owned social communities to identify emerging platform trends, fan behaviors, conversation themes, creator formats, and real-time engagement opportunities. • Developing quick-turn social content ideas based on trends, community conversations, product moments, cultural moments, and platform-native formats. • Writing social-first copy, replies, comments, captions, and lightweight content concepts that align with brand voice while feeling native to each platform. • Strategically following and engaging with customer, partner, influencer, creator, and media accounts to identify opportunities for amplification, collaboration, participation, and real-time response. • Surfacing trends and audience insights to the broader social team, including clear brand approach recommendations. • Partnering with social strategy, content, creative, and product teams to turn community insights into content briefs, reactive posts, engagement prompts, and recurring social formats. • Maintaining community management fundamentals, including social listening and reporting, escalating issues, and routing technical inquiries. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience. OR Associate's degree and 4+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience. OR High School Diploma or equivalent and 6+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience. *Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience. Preferred Qualifications & Skills • 3-5 years of social media, community management, content creation, or platform-native social experience. • Strong understanding of social platforms, internet culture, creator trends, community behavior, and what makes content feel native to each channel. • Experience engaging communities on platforms such as Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X. • Strong copywriting, social ideation, and creative judgment. • Experience creating short-form social content, reactive posts, community prompts, memes, creator-style concepts, or other lightweight social executions. • Experience with social listening, trend tracking, community reporting, or turning audience insights into actionable content recommendations. • Interest in technology, mobile, PC, gaming, AI, sports, entertainment, creator culture, or other passion areas relevant to the brand’s social communities. • Experience working with a social media management or listening system like Sprout Social. • Experience collaborating with creative, content, strategy, product, and community teams to move quickly from trend identification to social execution. • Ability to travel and work non-traditional hours as needed for live moments, events, launches, and real-time social opportunities. • Responsive, curious, culturally aware, and able to use both instinct and data to make smart social decisions. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where social trends, community conversations, and brand priorities move quickly. This is an office-based position located in San Diego, CA and is expected to comply with the company's onsite work policy. This is a U.S. based position and is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here . Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries). To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies : Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications. EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification. Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law. Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits : $44.35 - $66.55 The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link . If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers .

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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group, Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group > Marketing Communications
Actively monitoring owned and non-owned social communities to identify emerging platform trends, fan behaviors, conversation themes, creator formats, and real-time engagement opportunities.
Developing quick-turn social content ideas based on trends, community conversations, product moments, cultural moments, and platform-native formats.
Writing social-first copy, replies, comments, captions, and lightweight content concepts that align with brand voice while feeling native to each platform.
Strategically following and engaging with customer, partner, influencer, creator, and media accounts to identify opportunities for amplification, collaboration, participation, and real-time response.
Surfacing trends and audience insights to the broader social team, including clear brand approach recommendations.
Partnering with social strategy, content, creative, and product teams to turn community insights into content briefs, reactive posts, engagement prompts, and recurring social formats.
Maintaining community management fundamentals, including social listening and reporting, escalating issues, and routing technical inquiries.
Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience.
Associate's degree and 4+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience.
High School Diploma or equivalent and 6+ years of Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related work experience.
Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.
3-5 years of social media, community management, content creation, or platform-native social experience.
Strong understanding of social platforms, internet culture, creator trends, community behavior, and what makes content feel native to each channel.
Experience engaging communities on platforms such as Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X.
Strong copywriting, social ideation, and creative judgment.
Experience creating short-form social content, reactive posts, community prompts, memes, creator-style concepts, or other lightweight social executions.
Experience with social listening, trend tracking, community reporting, or turning audience insights into actionable content recommendations.
Interest in technology, mobile, PC, gaming, AI, sports, entertainment, creator culture, or other passion areas relevant to the brand’s social communities.
Experience working with a social media management or listening system like Sprout Social.
Experience collaborating with creative, content, strategy, product, and community teams to move quickly from trend identification to social execution.
Ability to travel and work non-traditional hours as needed for live moments, events, launches, and real-time social opportunities.

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Preferred Qualifications & Skills

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