Manticore Games Inc.

Senior Manager / Senior Director, Marketing

Manticore Games Inc.

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $120,000 - $205,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Manticore Games is looking for an entrepreneurial, innovative, hard working and experienced Marketing leader to help launch our new game Out of Time
  • Broad spectrum and hands-on role with significant business impact, including managing go-to-market strategy, corporate and product positioning, branding, market research, user research, community management, PR, marketing channels’ growth, and user acquisition
  • Collaborate with teams across the organization to make Manticore an outstanding success
  • This is a six-month contract role with the possibility of extension or conversion to a full-time position
  • Design and lead creative marketing strategy and direct the execution of all go to market activities for Out of Time
  • Develop product marketing, key positioning statements, branding, value proposition, and messaging strategy
  • Execute viral marketing campaigns leveraging audience and network aggregation with key target audiences
  • Collaborate with marketing team to build and deploy grassroots marketing and community management programs to drive players to Core and increase engagement
  • Drive player and creator awareness, traffic, installs, retention, and revenues
  • Partner with Product Management and Finance to drive adoption, engagement and revenues with an efficient and effective marketing budget
  • Manage PR and Communications with the media and the Manticore community to develop and solidify corporate and product positioning
  • Create and direct market, competitive and user research
  • Analyze the performance of marketing programs across all channels (including ad spend) to identify the best opportunities for optimization, and regularly iterate to maximize performance

Requirements

  • 8+ years of full-stack marketing and senior leadership experience with B2C marketing, ideally in gaming, social media or technology products, and strong consumer brand sensibilities
  • A deep understanding of and passion for MMOs
  • Substantial wins in bringing products and services to market and growing them to large scale
  • Experience at a successful startup with 0 to 1 launch of new product a plus
  • Experience launching and growing new Free To Play games, MMOs, or marketplaces to the public on PC and console platforms
  • Expertise launching on Steam, EGS and other PC and console distribution and publishing platforms
  • Passion for and deep knowledge of games
  • Best-in-class brand builder and storyteller; proven success crafting brands from the ground up and a track record of building brand engagement and generating business growth
  • History of launching successful campaigns using grassroots, guerrilla, and viral marketing as well as community management
  • Experience building reporting dashboards and synthesizing complex data points and KPIs to generate easy to understand executive reports
  • Excellent spoken and written communication skills, allowing you to deliver complex information clearly to your colleagues and through marketing material
  • Demonstrated effective leadership including ability to build and foster successful teams that scale
  • Demonstrated success managing paid acquisition budget across multiple channels to drive efficient and sustained user and revenue growth
  • BA/BS degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering or a related field