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Senior Marketing Manager - Hybrid

We are nDreams, one of the world’s leading developers/publishers focused on VR games. As our team and portfolio of titles expands, we are on the search for an effective, people-orientated Senior Marketing Manager – a new role at the heart of our growing publishing team. Reporting to the Brand Director, the successful applicant will lead the go-to-market campaigns for all our upcoming VR games, along with managing and mentoring a talented group of brand managers. If you are a natural collaborator, with enthusiasm for marketing, gaming and nurturing an effective team, we would love to hear from you.

The Role

Marketing Management

• Lead the Go-To-Market campaigns for all nDreams titles from announcement, through to launch and beyond.
• Oversee and support the brand managers in the development of marketing campaigns for all titles. Take the lead on assigned titles as required.
• Bring together the wider publishing team to ensure the holistic marketing campaign are effective and fully supported across all areas of the marketing mix.
• Responsibility for the development and implementation of marketing activities and campaign beats, ensuring these are effective, delivered on time, and to budget.

Title-Wide Marketing

• Lead and manage marketing initiatives that bring value across all projects – e.g. paid media, first-party marketing, events etc.
• Create and execute the paid media strategy for all nDreams titles, working with agencies as required.
• Become a primary point of contact for first-party and partner marketing teams.
• Plan and deliver industry and consumer events – E3, Gamescom, EGX etc.
• Analysis of campaign data to shape future plans.
• Manage overall marketing budget.

Team Leadership

• Day-to-day management and support of the marketing team, ensuring they are motivated, and deadlines and priorities are being met.
• Foster a positive, collaborative, solutions-orientated team culture that encourages exploration and continual improvement, balanced with quality and timely delivery.
• Develop and mentor direct reports, supporting their future growth and success.
• Collaborate with the Brand Director on long-term resource and development planning.

Requirements

Who are we looking for?

• 5+ years experience within a marketing management role at a video game developer or publisher. Experience managing campaigns for GaaS titles would be highly desirable.
• Wide-ranging experience leading, managing and developing an effective and motivated marketing team, in a positive and sensitive manner.
• Experience collaborating with individuals and teams of different backgrounds, seniorities, and viewpoints. Ability to lead diverse teams towards challenging, shared goals.
• Comfortable going between team management and leadership and hands-on execution.
• Excellent go-to-market campaign planning and execution experience – particularly around developing, running, and optimising paid media campaigns.
• Evidence of applied and theoretical understanding of marketing.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully plan and execute complex projects on time and to budget.
• Inquisitive, analytical and thrive on feedback. Willing to find and utilise learnings, other perspectives and creative problem-solving to shape and iterate on plans and challenge their own thinking.
• Commercial awareness, knowledge and passion for video games and the video game industry.

Benefits

Who we are -

We are nDreams, an award-winning virtual reality publisher and developer with a portfolio of award-winning games, including Phantom: Covert Ops, Fracked,and Far Cry VR: Dive into Insanity.

Our industry-leading publishing team has over 25 years combined experience within the VR space, plus decades more across major games companies. We create innovative and impactful marketing and commercial campaigns, whilst constantly monitoring the market to ensure our games stay ahead of the competition.

In addition to supporting the release of our internally developed titles, we announced our Third-Party Publishing Initiative last year, to co-fund and support games from other studios. Our first title is cosy city creator, Little Cities. Following a recent $35 million investment, we’ve got even more incredible titles across both existing and future VR platforms to be announced soon.

Why nDreams?

Our expanding company shares a passion for innovation, collaboration and leading the future of VR. We encourage an open and diverse culture and empower people to explore ideas and put their own stamp on their work. With humble beginnings of our own, we combine amazing projects and opportunities with a personal, caring touch.

The publishing team is a growing part of nDreams. We are a friendly, sociable bunch who work highly collaboratively, both between ourselves and the talented studios we work alongside.

We offer some great perks, including flexible hours, duvets days, your birthday off, dedicated personal development time, and regular socials and parties, alongside holiday, pensions, health insurance, life cover and more. Our newly refurbished office has some fantastic facilities and is built around collaborative work (and play!).