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Indie Publishing Marketing Manager

Job Summary:

The candidate is required to influence and support the game assets in a fast pacing and ever-changing development and release cycle across all titles in the Square Enix Collective portfolio, such as PowerWash Simulator and the upcoming Little Goody Two Shoes.

Requirements

Key Deliverables:

• Build effective relationships with our external indie development studios and international Square Enix teams.
• Develop short and long-term strategic marketing plans; and deliver successful execution against those plans to ensure successful releases and post-launch support.
• Collaborate with the Square Enix Collective Team. Support production and submission teams, social/community and influencer activities across multiple titles and priorities.
• Understand the complexities of developing assets and encouraging the success of those assets through marketing their unique features within a defined budget.
• Comfortable using their creative thinking to resolve practical and project related challenges as they are enriching marketing campaigns.
• Motivated by deadlines and achievement and energised by moving projects forward towards conclusion

Key Stakeholders:

Square Enix Collective Indie Publishing Team, Square Enix International Teams, Indie Development Studios. Agencies

Reports to:

Director of Indie Publishing

Knowledge & Experience:

Essential:

• Direct brand and/or marketing experience within the video games industry specifically with creating and marketing of assets.
• Understanding of the complexities of marketing videogames to different global markets.
  
• Experience in delivering innovative above-the-line promotional activities, with an active and evolving knowledge of promotional opportunities, technologies, and trends.
• Project management experience able to devise and communicate plans and execute against them, delivering on time and to budget.
• Budget projection and management able to manage projects to budget

Desirable:

• Experience with indie video game development.

Competencies, Skills & Attributes:

Essential:

• Confident Communicator, able to develop relationships and work well with internal and external stakeholders at different organisational levels.
• Able to offer constructive feedback on assets as well as swiftly understand, interpret, and action feedback received and able to motivate others to deliver.
• Creative Mind-set, able to think differently, visualise concepts, catalyse ideas and offer creative insights and direction to those responsible for the development of the creative assets.
• Ability to assess the unique needs and devise comprehensive, bespoke, and dynamic marketing solutions.
• Able to work with changing deadlines, demanding schedules and multiple stakeholders.
• Organised and diligent – with good time management and proactive communication.
• Able to accurately and clearly, create and manage briefs, plans, reports, budgets, and schedules.

Other:

• Holistic outlook – able to think and operate both creatively and commercially.
• Willing to travel and stay away from home and has a valid passport.
• Passionate Gamer

Our goal at Square Enix is to hire, retain, develop and promote the best talent, regardless of age, gender, race, religious, belief, sexual orientation or physical ability.

Our pledge to D&I

At Square Enix we believe in the importance of being a diverse and global company, and we stand firmly together against any forms of injustice, intolerance, harassment or discrimination. In our effort to create a truly diverse workforce, we pledge to continue to raise awareness in every step of the employee experience, from recruitment to promotions to ensure equal opportunities for all. One of our goals is to champion diversity in games and at work and work together to inspire real change.

Learning and education around D&I will be a key element for us to continue to grow as an organization. With unconscious bias training, D&I workshops and a variety of initiatives to give our employees the opportunity to be heard and be part of that change to achieve real equality. We need all our efforts to continue to build our culture of inclusion and equality.

We are also proud to partner with UKIE's Raise the Game pledge, BAME in Games and Women in Games, to name a few.

Hybrid Working Policy

Square Enix is pleased to be an employer that offers flexibility within the workplace.

We have a hybrid working policy which allows employees to work from the comfort of their home, three days per week, and in our amazing Blackfriars office for the other two.

Or, if being in the Office is your preference, you can choose three days working from our office and two days working from home. The choice is yours!