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Operating at the intersection of video games, publishing, and fintech, we scale awesome content in frontier markets by solving hard problems. We are partnered with top global game companies like Riot Games, Activision, and Tencent and we are backed by top investors like a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Riot Games, Sony, and Nas.\nAs Associate Social Media Manager, you'll help build a large, engaged audience of young gamers who trust Carry1st and feel part of a community. On social we're a gaming and community brand first: global gaming culture, made locally relevant. You'll come up with the campaigns and moments that get gamers talking, and make them happen. You'll be our ear on the ground with gamers, the person who knows what's trending, what's funny and what will land before anyone else does. 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