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Marketing Communications Director

We are Fatshark

We are a critically acclaimed Swedish game development studio with about 150 experienced and skilled employees out of Stockholm. We are most well-known for developing the Warhammer: Vermintide franchise, but have also helped develop a number of AAA titles and will soon be launching the highly anticipated game Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.

We have grown quite a bit over the last few years but we still embrace the same values that we started with and still think of ourselves like one big family with fun at the center. We are known for our crazy internally designed socks, hackweeks, use Friday afternoons for studio-wide “social play” time and our CEO is not beneath fixing the coffee machine himself. It all adds up to an approachable, fun, passion-driven yet communal environment for us to work in.

The role

As our Marketing Communications Director, you will lead the team charged with developing, establishing, and strengthening authentic connections with our players across the world. You are most responsible for our voice and how we will connect our brand(s) with the players that engage in our games. You will drive a communications strategy across multiple channels and work with everything from announcement plans to gearing up to blockbuster launch activities. You will work closely with the immediate marketing team as well as development teams to ensure optimal content rollout plans, influencer activations, news pitches, trade-show presence and other campaigns. You are a storyteller. You have also shown the ability to cultivate lasting relationships with media, influencers and ultimately our players.

The ideal candidate will have a diverse strategic communications experience, including brand management, messaging, internal communications, writing, strategic partnerships, and executive communications.

This role will also need to manage a more significant marketing budget and report directly to the CMO.

What we offer

Here at Fatshark, we do what we love most: design high-profile games for PCs and consoles. We offer you:

• A playful, friendly and inclusive work place
• Hands-on production environment with an emphasis on cooperative/multiplayer games
• Opportunities for personal growth with varied projects, experienced co-workers and recurring hack weeks
• Developing games with our own engine - Stingray
• Regulated flex time and paid overtime
• Occupational pension
• Yearly health benefits (for gym membership & more)
• Health checkups once every 2nd year
• Yearly bonus program
• Office located in central Stockholm

What you'll do

• Oversee marketing communications strategy, including community, social, influencer and public relations.
• Partner with development teams and develop messaging around current as well as new and unannounced IPs.
• Work with all disciplines in marketing to ensure consistency in messaging independent of platforms, media, or format.
• Steward identity and reputation of the studio and its IPs: forming relationships with media, influencers, partners.
• Own company and product presence at digital and physical events/conferences
• Oversee /Collaborate with key technical partnerships and manage and direct agency partners
• Lead, develop and grow an amazing marketing communications team
• Liaison with key non-western international markets (e.g. China) and partners, such as Tencent

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in Marketing Communications or communications related role
• Experience running, building and developing a team
• Preferred international as well as games industry experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to establish relationships with media
• Well versed in Strategy, both crafting and executing
• Willing and able to travel to industry events and conventions
• Passionate for games, and the player community

Bonus qualifications

• Experience working with influencer marketing or community management
• Experience in journalism, or within a field of writing
• Experience working with and/or managing agencies
• Additional language(s) on a native level

Application details

Most of us are currently working temporarily from home, but our office is not completely closed and parts of the onboarding can be done there. This position will eventually require you to work from our office.

We look forward to review applications and will be interviewing candidates continuously until the position has been filled.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Start: ASAP
Form of Employment: Full-time