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Director, Social Engagement
Pfizer INC · 🇺🇸 4 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 40 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 9 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Pfizer INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Associate Director, Statistics Lead” (Statisticians) in VA: $135k–$135k, median $135k. Most were filed at wage level III (100%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 40 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 9 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Role Summary Reporting to the Sr. Director, Team Lead, Product Communications & Social Engagement within the Chief Marketing Office, this Director is the team leader for Social Engagement and is accountable for the strategy, governance, execution, and performance of Pfizer’s organic social engagement capability across the business. The role leads a team of social media engagement experts and provides oversight of strategy and execution for Pfizer-branded social media handles and the unbranded Pfizer for All platform handles. The Director ensures social engagement programs amplify product and health narratives, foster meaningful connections, protect brand reputation, and align with business objectives and enterprise standards. The Director will lead and develop a team of social media engagement experts, setting priorities, clarifying roles, coaching performance, and ensuring high-quality delivery across strategy, content, community management, issues response, governance, and measurement. The ideal candidate will combine enterprise-level strategic leadership with strong operational judgment and will collaborate closely with Communications, Marketing, Digital, Medical, Legal, Regulatory, Safety, analytics, and agency partners to create integrated social engagement programs that resonate with diverse audiences. Key Responsibilities Strategy & Planning • Set the vision and lead the organic social engagement strategy, with oversight of strategy and execution across Pfizer-branded social media handles and the unbranded Pfizer for All platform handles; translate business, brand, and audience priorities into platform-native content and programs. • Build and maintain a channel-by-channel editorial calendar (quarterly and monthly views) aligned to campaigns, corporate moments, and product needs; integrate tagging/UTMs and paid-media alignment. • Establish and continuously improve the operating model, governance, resourcing, and agency model required for channel management, content creation, community engagement, issues response, and measurement; align teams on priorities for always-on and campaign-based social. Community Management & Safety Reporting • Stand up and govern response guidelines and escalation paths; partner with moderation vendors to manage open commenting and issue/AE- response. • Set SLA-based listening, triage, and response standards; oversee sentiment tracking and topic tagging to inform content and stakeholder updates. • Ensure review/approval compliance (Medical/Legal/Regulatory); monitor content expiration/renewal cycles and archive requirements. Content Operations • Oversee the team’s end-to-end editorial and content operations process across branded and unbranded handles, from briefing and development through review, publishing, optimization, expiration, and archiving; ensure consistent tone of voice, quality, and compliance. • Coordinate influencer/partner content when relevant to organic social, ensuring taxonomy, job-code tracking, and preview/QA workflows with agencies. • Drive test-and-learns across formats (short video, carousels, polls) and platform features; capture learnings and roll into playbooks. Measurement & Optimization • Define the measurement framework and KPIs (reach, engagement rate, saves/shares, negative feedback, response SLAs, follower quality, site traffic/HVA); publish monthly readouts and quarterly deep dives. • Partner with Paid Media to integrate organic/paid flighting and ensure cross-channel attribution; maintain dashboards and performance hygiene. Cross-functional Leadership • Serve as the senior social engagement leader across Product Communications, convening CMO, Public Affairs, Legal, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, Safety, brand teams, and agency partners to maintain