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Account Director

Improbable believes in a future where new, virtual worlds will augment human experience and become as meaningful, lasting and rich as the physical world. We call this the Multiversal Self and believe games are the basis of the future virtual worlds.

Developers face a variety of risks in game development – from game design to production speed to launch scale. With SpatialOS, we aim to offer the next generation game development technology that helps reduce those risks and enables innovation that is vital to the future of games.

We believe China is leading the world in gaming, and that the next generation of game worlds will be developed by the prosperous Chinese Game Development Community. We are looking for talented individuals to join our Shanghai Office, our core hub and headquarters for APAC Operations.

will be to own the management and growth our largest accounts within the games industry. Your role will involve working with our strategic accounts, focussing on driving further adoption of SpatialOS across studios within the account, and working with them to bring games to market. You will be truly embedded within the accounts you support, and will be responsible for building and nurturing deep relationships across the organisation.

One of the most important aspects of the role will be your ability to align key decision makers and senior stakeholders within large studios and game publishers. This will include working with production partners, creative and art teams, through to business development and marketing, to ensure a cadence of understanding and delivery. This role is integral in our ability to enhance and develop relationships within large accounts, which will provide further commercial opportunities.

Competencies

• Able to nurture nascent relationships, understand the vision of other companies and accurately convey feedback to both product and business teams
• Full professional proficiency in both Mandarin and English
• Experience working with multiple accounts for a complex technical product
• Experienced in building business relationships, ideally to have experience working in both international and domestic (China) market
• Self driven, is able to push yourself to complete complicated and difficult task without much oversight or goal setting.
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts to a broad audience
• Highly empathetic and able to build lasting relationships
• Creative, entrepreneurial streak

The following competencies would be advantageous

• Experience working with Western and Chinese Games studios
• Preferably to have experience working in/with Tencent
• Strong strategic thinking traits with a clear view of the bigger picture
• Strong self-awareness, understand your own weak points and has a clear strategy to improve them

The best ideas are often the least expected and require new ways of thinking; that’s why our teams at Improbable are made up of an incredible range of talented people. Improbable is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.