Product Manager-Production Team

Job Description

You will be responsible for:

Product marketing

• Identify the game’s target audience, positioning, values, and selling points;
• Create the game’s brand identity: title, packaging and “story telling” around the game’s scenario and characters;
• Manage marketing deliverables: keep a reliable planning up-to-date, build the marketing deliverables with the marketing artists, and make sure the marketing assets are top notch quality;
• Conduct market researches, competition benchmarks, polls and consumer studies; deliver relevant analysis according to different variables;
• Follow the game development stages and make recommendations to improve user experience, engagement, socialization and retention;
• Coordinate game’s approval with all the copyrights owners (Universal, Sony Pictures, Marvel).

Global launch plan

• Define the marketing strategy in order to reach brand awareness and generate traffic and game installations. Example of communication actions: press relations, promotion and partnership programs, social marketing actions, traffic acquisition recommendations;
• Coordinate the strategy implementation with local marketing & PR teams, Key Account Managers, Game Monetization & User Acquisition Manager and Partners;
• Constantly support our sales teams with pitch docs for app stores merchandising and develop specific sales tools;
• Create game’s promotional tools, including videos, web assets, screenshots, store descriptions and visuals, PR tools and all other needed assets for special marketing initiatives;
• Analyze the marketing campaign’s results and report it to the game’s team, top management and licensor.

Game Evolution

• Coordinate the Community Management and Customer Care activities and set a specific Game Customer Care policy when needed;
• Measure and analyze game users’ feedback, behavior and market’s acceptance;
• Share the results & your personal recommendations with the game’s production team and top management;
• Prioritize bug fixing and user experience improvements, following up on the game updates schedule with production team and monetization manager;
• Manage a marketing calendar based on the game’s updates and promotions and at the same time oversee related announcements, merchandising, and community management aspects.

We offer you:

• Motivating salary and a merit based pay system & bonuses;
• Lunch tickets;
• Medical insurance package, in partnership with Regina Maria Clinic;
• The opportunity to work, learn and develop in a professional environment, on top quality games including worldwide known licenses;
• A supportive working climate and a free communication style allowing you to increase your knowledge by sharing ideas and solutions;
• A modern office complex including:
• Cafeteria with hot food open during working hours
• Gym facilities
• Relaxation area with pool tables, ping pong tables, darts, fussball
• Kickboxing classes in the gym facility free for employees
• Dance classes (beginner and advanced groups) In the gym facility free for employees
• Free access to football court and basketball court – 2 hours, once a week, both courts are close to the office.

Qualifications

A new Product Manager is about to complete our Game Dream Team.

The Product Manager is an essential part of the Marketing team and works in constant collaboration with the production, monetization and user acquisition teams.

As a Product Manager, you will manage, launch, promote and sustain a portfolio of social free-to-play games throughout their entire life cycle.

This position is located in our production studio in Bucharest, but you will work closely with Gameloft international teams (for example: Marketing & PR Managers, Web development studios, Video production studios, Artists, Community Managers and Customer Care Managers).

Requirements:

• 3+ years in Consumer Marketing, ideally in Gaming, online entertainment or social products;
• School of management or BBS / MBA in Marketing;
• Knowledge and passion for video games (from hardcore gamers titles to casual social games and entertainment as a whole);
• Strong analytical skills with a meticulous mind;
• Creative spirit, capable of creating innovative marketing programs that are results oriented;
• Strong leadership skills;
• Talented communicator with an excellent grasp of the English language;
• Ability to work with a wide range of profiles (business, game design, analysts).

Additional Information

• Motivating salary and a merit based pay system;
  
• Lunch tickets;
• Medical insurance package;
• Supportive working climate, a young and dynamic team with a free communication style and also the possibility to make outstanding performances fairly rewarded;
• Get the chance to work in a multinational team;
• Expand your professional knowledge and career very fast;

• Cafeteria with hot food open during working hours
• Gym facilities, Dance classes free for employees;
• Relaxation area with pool tables, ping pong tables, darts, foosball
• Kickboxing classes in the gym facility free for employees
• Free access to football court and basketball court
• Please send your resume at ancaemilia.mihaila [at]gameloft.com

Company Description

Gameloft Romania, through it’s over 1200 employees active in the Bucharest and Cluj studios has created and developed successful titles such as NOVA, NOVA 2, NOVA 3, Backstab, The Dark Knight Rises, Modern Combat 5, Starfront: Collision, Ferrari GT, Asphalt 5, Asphalt 6, Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front, Terminator: Salvation, Shrek Kart, Captain America 2, Blitz Brigade, Brothers in Arms 3 available for Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android and tablets. Aiming to generate innovative and creative games for fast growing technologies, we are constantly looking for the best talents in our field.

www.gameloft.ro