Director / Senior Director of Marketing

3 Months ago • 10 Years + • Marketing • $130,000 PA - $205,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Director / Senior Director of Marketing role involves leading the marketing strategy for a new MMO title, including go-to-market strategy, product positioning, branding, market research, and user acquisition. Responsibilities include designing marketing strategies, developing product marketing, managing PR and communications, and analyzing the performance of marketing programs. The role requires collaboration with various teams to drive player engagement and revenue. The position offers a unique opportunity to bring a new action-packed combat-focused MMO experience to market.
Must have:
  • 10+ years of marketing and senior leadership experience.
  • Deep understanding of and passion for MMOs.
  • Experience launching and growing new Free To Play games or marketplaces.
  • Expertise launching on PC and console platforms.
  • Best-in-class brand builder and storyteller.
Good to have:
  • Experience at a successful startup.
  • History of launching successful campaigns using grassroots and viral marketing.
  • Experience building reporting dashboards.
Perks:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision & Life/AD&D Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Maternity & Parental Leave
  • Fully Remote
  • Flexible PTO
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Benefits
  • ADP Employee Discount Program
  • Daily Lunch (in office only)
  • Free Snacks & Beverages (in office only)

Job Details

Director / Senior Director of Marketing

Manticore Games® is building a new immersive, open world combat-focused Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game leveraging the power of its UGC platform, Core. Manticore launched the Core platform in 2021, featuring live events, interactive entertainment, and more than 50,000 games and worlds to play and explore. Core is a radically accessible game construction kit and social game-playing platform, all-in-one. Now, Manticore is expanding on the Core universe and is looking for qualified pioneers to join the journey.

Manticore Games is looking for an entrepreneurial, innovative, hard working and experienced Marketing leader to help us launch our new MMO. 

This is a broad spectrum and hands-on role with significant business impact, which includes managing go-to-market strategy, corporate and product positioning, branding, market research, user research, community management, PR, marketing channels’ growth, and user acquisition. The Head of Marketing will collaborate with teams across the organization to make Manticore an outstanding success. This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an ambitious marketing leader to bring a new action-packed combat focused MMO experience to market.

Our headquarters are located in San Mateo, CA but this role can be fully remote.

Responsibilities

  • Design and lead creative marketing strategy and direct the execution of all go to market activities for new MMO title
  • Develop product marketing, key positioning statements, branding, value proposition, and messaging strategy
  • Execute viral marketing campaigns leveraging audience and network aggregation with key target audiences
  • Collaborate with marketing team to build and deploy grassroots marketing and community management programs to drive players to our new MMO and increase engagement
  • Drive player and creator awareness, traffic, installs, retention, and revenues
  • Partner with Product Management and Finance to drive adoption, engagement and revenues with an efficient and effective marketing budget
  • Manage PR and Communications with the media and the Manticore community to develop and solidify corporate and product positioning
  • Create and direct market, competitive and user research
  • Analyze the performance of marketing programs across all channels (including ad spend) to identify the best opportunities for optimization, and regularly iterate to maximize performance

Requirements

  • 10+ years of full-stack marketing and senior leadership experience with B2C marketing, ideally in gaming, social media or technology products, and strong consumer brand sensibilities
  • A deep understanding of and passion for MMOs
  • Substantial wins in bringing products and services to market and growing them to large scale
  • Experience at a successful startup with 0 to 1 launch of new product a plus
  • Experience launching and growing new Free To Play games, MMOs, or marketplaces to the public on PC and console platforms
  • Expertise launching on Steam, EGS and other PC and console distribution and publishing platforms
  • Passion for and deep knowledge of games
  • Best-in-class brand builder and storyteller; proven success crafting brands from the ground up and a track record of building brand engagement and generating business growth
  • History of launching successful campaigns using grassroots, guerrilla, and viral marketing as well as community management
  • Experience building reporting dashboards and synthesizing complex data points and KPIs to generate easy to understand executive reports
  • Excellent spoken and written communication skills, allowing you to deliver complex information clearly to your colleagues and through marketing material
  • Demonstrated effective leadership including ability to build and foster successful teams that scale
  • Demonstrated success managing paid acquisition budget across multiple channels to drive efficient and sustained user and revenue growth
  • BA/BS degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering or a related field

Perks

  • Medical, Dental, Vision & Life/AD&D Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Maternity & Parental Leave
  • Fully Remote
  • Flexible PTO
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Benefits
  • ADP Employee Discount Program
  • Daily Lunch (in office only)
  • Free Snacks & Beverages (in office only)

 $130,000/year to $205,000/year

A reasonable estimate of the current US base salary range for this position is salary (the range listed above) + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within that range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including but not limited to job-related skill sets, experience and training, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include discretionary bonus (if any, based on individual and organizational performance), equity, or benefits. 

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Manticore Games provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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About The Company

Manticore Games is the developer and operator of Core. Core is an endless universe of games to play and worlds to explore designed by a global community of creators. It’s a radically accessible game construction kit and social game-playing platform, all-in-one. Whether you’re interested in playing unexpected takes on shooters, RPGs, and party games, exploring massive and spectacular worlds with friends, or unleashing your own insane game designs on the world, Core is your portal to the Multiverse.

Manticore Games has received backing from Benchmark Capital, XN, Epic Games, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Correlation Ventures, BITKRAFT Esports Ventures & BITKRAFT Opportunity Fund, LVP, M Ventures, Tuesday Capital, SV Angel, Arrive (a Roc Nation company), Sapphire Sport.

To apply, please visit our careers page: https://www.manticoregames.com/careers/

Core is available to download now for free on the Epic Games Store at www.epicgames.com/store/p/core. To learn more about Core, visit www.coregames.com,

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