Community & Events Manager (Short-term)

Niantic’s Monster Hunter Now team seeks a Community and Events Manager to plan, coordinate, and host player meet-ups around the United States. Join us in crafting real world social experiences to encourage outdoor adventure!

Niantic Marketing drives community-focused initiatives for our global audience of tens-of-millions of users, using key partnerships and creative campaigns that reflect the spirit of our company's mission.

As the Monster Hunter Now Community & Events Manager for the United States, you will help develop community strategies for Niantic's real world augmented reality mobile games. You will coordinate community events and player meetups to attract and retain players.

Work with product managers and marketers to plan and implement engaging events and meetups.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, coordinate, and host engaging community player meetups and in-person events based on the Monster Hunter Now mobile game across the United States.
• Work with other international Community & Events Managers and Niantic marketing partners to develop a template for events that can be replicated.
• Keep a pulse on the local player landscape by tracking players' behaviors, comments, trends, talkability, and content.
• Identify relevant insights from online community performance and offline community conversations to help report to the team on players’ opinions and requests about the game.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant events and/or community experience, with a specific track record in hosting player or customer events.
• Comfortable traveling and working solo in different cities around the United States hosting player events.
• Thinks creatively, and loves innovating while following established processes.
• Undeterred by quick turnaround times, multi-step approval processes, and trying new things.
• Good at paying attention to details, communicative, self-motivated, and works well with others.
• Keeps up to date with social media, community, and gamer trends.
• Experience in community building and knows how to complete online & offline activations.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately, with adaptability to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with the ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others.

Plus if…

• You are an avid fan of Niantic’s games, specifically Monster Hunter Now.
• You are a passionate gamer with familiarity and knowledge of Niantic games.
• You have experience working within strict brand and legal guidelines.
• You have experience using different editing tools for quick video/photo editing on social channels.

The hourly rate for this role is between $58.00/hr - $65.00/hr. 

This is a contractor position and the work should be performed based on service agreement and SOW. Niantic will not offer Contractor direct employment contract, salary, benefits, equities, or any compensation associated with employment.

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Monster Hunter Now. 

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, London, Tokyo, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID

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