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Marketing Producer

Jackbox Games is looking for a Marketing Producer to join our marketing team!

Who are We?

Jackbox is a small but growing game studio best known for our Jackbox Party Pack franchise: a set of five social party games released every fall. Since 2014, our games--like Quiplash, Drawful, and Trivia Murder Party-- have been featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, by Polygon, and in living rooms and finished basements across the world.

In 2020, we had over 200 million users. And we have hard evidence that one of those users was Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron.

You can learn everything you ever wanted to know about how our games work (spoiler: your phone is the controller!) and who we are and what we make at jackboxgames.com.

What’s the Job?

The Jackbox Games Marketing Team is bursting with opportunities and challenges as more people than ever are discovering our games! We have doubled in size in the past year and have big ambitions to improve awareness of our games globally.

We are looking for an experienced project manager who can work hand in hand with all members of our marketing team to ensure that our projects progress and meet milestones and other deadlines. We release a title (sometimes more than one!) annually and this person will work closely with the VP of Marketing to ensure that the team is staying on track, feeling supported, and isn’t blocked by external needs.

The Marketing Producer will regularly join team meetings and external partner or vendor calls to help identify takeaways and action items. They will also regularly meet with other producers to act as a liaison between the game development teams and the marketing team when projects overlap.

Responsibilities

• Observe meetings and identify action items. The Marketing Producer will join all team meetings and some meetings with external partners to act as an additional set of eyes. They will act as our scribe and translate action items and takeaways into tasks that get added into team sprints.
• Increase transparency into the team’s work. The Marketing Producer will ensure that team members know where to look for information without having to ask and that said information is kept up-to-date. Documentation should be consistent and predictable. They set an agenda, keep conversations on track, defer side conversations to breakout meetings, and schedule those meetings to make sure they happen.
• Manage project planning. Marketing Producers work with the team to keep the project backlog organized and make sure it accurately reflects the goals of the team. Similarly, the Marketing Producer will meet with each marketing team member on a bi-weekly basis to help prep tasks for the upcoming sprint and flag concerns about team-wide scope and prioritization to the VP of Marketing. The Marketing Producer moderates marketing team planning meetings, postmortems, and team health checks
• Facilitate communication with game teams. The Marketing Producer will act as the primary liaison between the marketing team and game development teams during the development cycle. The Marketing Producer will meet regularly with the game producers to initiate game-specific marketing projects and coordinate work that is shared between the game teams and marketing teams.
• Turn campaigns into tasks. The marketing team is responsible for campaigns that can span days or months. Annual campaigns include game announcements, first looks, launch, and holidays to name a few. The Marketing Producer will work with the VP of Marketing to ensure a year-long roadmap is kept up to date and campaigns are broken down into digestible amounts of work for the team.
• Eliminate inefficiencies and improve processes. Probably the most useful skill a Marketing Producer can have is the ability to identify and solve problems. Producers know the needs of their team best and adjust as necessary. They are constantly on the lookout for inefficiencies or ways to improve our processes. Process improvement is more than just saying, “we should…” It’s everything that follows as well: documentation, consensus, communication, buy-in, and action.
• Be the final gatekeeper. The marketing team regularly has to meet very specific requirements for projects, whether they be internal or external for a platform or partner. The Marketing Producer will regularly review completed tasks to ensure all requirements have been met, all stakeholders have reviewed the work, and quality checks have been completed before deliverables are shipped. The Marketing Producer will identify where tasks are commonly missed and work with the VP of Marketing to refine processes and communication to improve overall accuracy.

Ideal Candidates

• Have at least 2-3 years of professional experience working as a project manager.
• Are highly organized and process-oriented. The Marketing Producer should inspire and sometimes require others on the team to be organized.
• Have an eye for detail. The Marketing Producer will often act as a final set of eyes on a task or project to ensure that all requirements are met.
• Are a mindful and effective communicator with empathy skills. Being a “good communicator” is vital. You should also be mindful of how your tone or comments can affect team dynamics. You should be skilled at facilitating communication.
• Have experience with a task management tracking tool. The marketing team currently uses JIRA but experience with any tool is fine.

And it would be nice if you also had…

• Experience as a team leader or manager
• Experience in the entertainment industry (creating marketing assets like trailers, commercials, or other visual assets is a big part of our work!)
• And/or, experience being the producer or project manager of a marketing team in an agile environment

We only hire clever, kind and creative people who are willing to work hard. Jackbox Games is a group effort and you must work collaboratively. Everyone here shares a commitment to excellence and a desire to work in a comfortable, friendly atmosphere.

Jackbox Games is committed to providing employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, ancestry, age, veteran status, or disability.

F.A.Q.

• I'm not sure if I'm qualified. Should I apply?
  We would much rather read your application than miss out on a great candidate, so please err on the side of applying. If you are passionate about games and are a good programmer, give it a shot! Worse thing that happens is you don't get the job, but we promise you're not wasting our time.
• What if I’m too qualified and have extensive work experience?
  You should still apply. We are looking for the best candidates and we will adjust responsibilities (and compensation) to match your experience.
• Do I need to live in or relocate to the Chicago area for this position? Short answer: yes. Long answer: We are all working remotely due to COVID-19 at the moment, so there’s not a rush, but the expectation is that eventually, you will work out of our Chicago office.

Are there any perks?

• Competitive pay and benefits. 401(k) with matching. And we pay 100% of the cost of premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for our employees. We also cover a really nice chunk of the cost of premiums for partner/dependent medical, dental and vision insurance. Paid parental leave.
• Casual dress and a flexible schedule. Come in a sweatshirt, jeans, whatever, like everyone else here.
• Creative work environment. We are lucky to work in a place that is full of talented and innovative folks. Although most hours the place is pretty quiet (we’re a focused bunch), this is punctuated with hilarious outbursts and general merriment, which makes a nice way to spend the day.
• Easy transportation. We’re very close to the “L” and the Halsted (#8) bus (right by the Apple Store and Mega Whole Foods if that’s your kind of thing), and we have a transit and parking FSA that allows you to dedicate pre-tax dollars to public transportation and parking expenses.
• Free food. Every week, we stock our kitchen with free snacks.

Interested?

Great, we look forward to reading your application. Make sure you include:

• Your resume.
• A cover letter. You don't need to be a professional writer for this job (we have those) but communication is important so we weigh cover letters heavily. You can (and should) write more, but we won’t evaluate applicants that don’t at least answer these two questions:
  • Why are you interested in working at Jackbox Games?
  • What is your favorite ad campaign and why? There's no right answer, we’re just curious how you process marketing content and we mostly just want to know if you've read this far.

We know it is a time commitment to prepare an application and we respect that effort by thoughtfully reviewing every complete application and responding one way or the other. But that kind of thoughtful review means that it sometimes takes us a while to get back to applicants, so please be patient with us and no phone calls.

Thanks for your interest in Jackbox Games!