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Hi, I’m Michael R. Kirkpatrick. I’m a senior marketing and community leader with over six years of experience building connections between creators, players, and brands across indie and AAA teams. I excel at creating scalable, high-engagement systems that support launches and sustained growth while protecting brand trust. I specialize in building community infrastructures from scratch and operating them through periods of rapid growth and high visibility, delivering clear messaging and cross-functional coordination to drive results.…Hi, I’m Michael R. Kirkpatrick. I’m a senior marketing and community leader with over six years of experience building connections between creators, players, and brands across indie and AAA teams. I excel at creating scalable, high-engagement systems that support launches and sustained growth while protecting brand trust. I specialize in building community infrastructures from scratch and operating them through periods of rapid growth and high visibility, delivering clear messaging and cross-functional coordination to drive results.

Michael R. Kirkpatrick

Community Manager, Content Creator, Content Producer, +2

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Hi, I’m Michael R. Kirkpatrick. I’m a senior marketing and community leader with over six years of experience building connections between creators, players, and brands across indie and AAA teams. I excel at creating scalable, high-engagement systems that support launches and sustained growth while protecting brand trust. I specialize in building community infrastructures from scratch and operating them through periods of rapid growth and high visibility, delivering clear messaging and cross-functional coordination to drive results.…Hi, I’m Michael R. Kirkpatrick. I’m a senior marketing and community leader with over six years of experience building connections between creators, players, and brands across indie and AAA teams. I excel at creating scalable, high-engagement systems that support launches and sustained growth while protecting brand trust. I specialize in building community infrastructures from scratch and operating them through periods of rapid growth and high visibility, delivering clear messaging and cross-functional coordination to drive results.

Available to hire

Hi, I’m Michael R. Kirkpatrick. I’m a senior marketing and community leader with over six years of experience building connections between creators, players, and brands across indie and AAA teams. I excel at creating scalable, high-engagement systems that support launches and sustained growth while protecting brand trust.
I specialize in building community infrastructures from scratch and operating them through periods of rapid growth and high visibility, delivering clear messaging and cross-functional coordination to drive results.

Skills

SEO Copywriting

SQL

Python

Experience Level

SEO Copywriting

Intermediate

SQL

Intermediate

Python

Intermediate

Work Experience

Social Media Manager at Confidential Fortune 50 Tech Company

March 1, 2026 - Present

Own weekend social coverage as sole operator across channels with 1M+ followers; manage high-volume inbound activity, triaging 200+ daily messages and 100+ tagged stories with response times within minutes; lead real-time crisis communication during high-visibility incidents; identify and act on trends and UGC, including owning a top-performing campaign that reached 400K+ organic views; monitor global sentiment and deliver actionable insights to cross-functional partners to guide response and positioning.

Community Producer at Netflix (via Magnit Global)

May 1, 2025 - December 1, 2025

Owned Discord strategy and served as the primary conduit between the development team and players during active development; planned and delivered milestone-based updates aligned with feature lock-ins; synthesized recurring questions and sentiment into guidance that shaped messaging and production priorities; redesigned and updated in-game FAQ system from the ground up as a core player resource; managed expectations during high-visibility updates while protecting long-term brand credibility.

Lead Community Manager at Windwalk Games

May 1, 2022 - March 1, 2025

Led community and community-led marketing strategy for 20+ separate communities; Built community infrastructure from zero and scaled Discord audiences to over 100K members; Owned community launch execution end to end, translating developer inputs into player-facing schedules and campaigns; established repeatable live programming models that sustained attention and drove growth; built and ran creator programs working with creators from roughly 50 to 5,000 average viewers; supported launches and live updates that contributed to 300K+ Steam wish lists and 250K+ Early Access sales.

Lead Community Specialist at Cointelegraph Studio

February 1, 2022 - May 1, 2022

Supported high-visibility campaigns across global audiences during fast-moving news cycles; translated complex subject matter into clear messaging under tight timelines; helped maintain credibility and community sentiment as sentiment shifted.

Head of Community at Tilt Games

March 1, 2020 - February 1, 2022

Established early community and marketing foundations for an indie publisher; designed recurring engagement initiatives that increased participation and viewership fivefold; created feedback loops between players and developers to inform release planning.

Stream Events Coordinator at The Cookie Brigade

June 1, 2024 - Present

Coordinated large-scale charity live stream events in involvement with 75+ volunteers and creators; supported multi-day virtual and in-person events through scheduling and live coordination; worked with organizers and creators to maintain pacing, engagement, and professionalism.