Marketing Project Manager (Consultant)

1 Month ago • All levels • Marketing

Job Summary

Job Description

Rovio is seeking a Marketing Project Manager (consultant) for a 6-month fixed-term contract, with potential for extension, to support the launch of a new SEGA game. This role involves managing the game's go-to-market (GTM) and LiveOps marketing plans, overseeing project execution with cross-functional teams (Rovio, Sega Japan, external stakeholders), and ensuring smooth workflow and decision-making. Responsibilities include team management framework planning and maintenance, communication and collaboration across teams and cultures, timeline and documentation management, and process improvement to streamline workflows between Rovio and Sega. The ideal candidate will be a strong organizer, communicator, and problem-solver with experience in marketing and project management, comfortable working in a hybrid environment and collaborating across geographical locations.
Must have:
  • Strong organization & planning
  • Excellent communication
  • Teamwork & resilience
  • Basic marketing knowledge
  • Problem-solving skills

Job Details

We're looking for a driven and versatile Marketing Project Manager to facilitate the launch of an exciting new SEGA game. This is a fixed-term, 6-month opportunity for a consultant/freelancer with the possibility to continue. Working closely together with the Marketing Lead of Beacon Growth, you manage fruitful and high-impact teamwork and the long term development of modern growth team working methods. This team is exceptional in Rovio as it works closely together with a large game development team in Sega Japan. 

You will contribute to the development and constant maintenance of the games’ GTM (go-to-market) plan as well as its LiveOps marketing plans. You oversee and facilitate the successful execution of these together with the team’s Craft Leads and key bridge personnel from Sega of Japan. Your work helps maintain smooth teamwork and paves way for more agile ways of working in a cross-company and cross-continental environment in the long term. You’ll be part of a multi-talented growth marketing team driving marketing for SEGA titles in the Western hemisphere.

You will have impact and fun at work by doing:

    • Together with Marketing Lead, and using software like Excel, Asana, Google Slides, Google Sheets and Powerpoint, plan, execute and maintain the team management framework that facilitates us delivering marketing projects on time and within budget
    • Closely communicate and collaborate with Rovio, Sega and external stakeholders to ensure smooth workflow and decision making, facilitating alignment between crafts. Communication happens both on-site and remotely using Teams and Google, as well as Teams and Slack project channels and groups.
    • Timeline and documentation management: Manage project schedules and deliverables, maintain good order of documentation across Rovio’s and Rovio/Sega shared ecosystems, identify optimal ways of using resources.
    • Process Improvement: In the medium to long term, streamline inter-team workflows for better efficiency and work distribution between Rovio and Sega teams and within the Rovio team.
    • Manage various development and marketing projects independently

Experience and skills we are looking for:

    • Project Management: Strong organizing and planning ability, natural curiosity to improve team synergies
    • Patient and respectful communicator: You will be working in a team with both European and Japanese working cultures
    • People skills and resilience: ability to get individuals to work well together as a team, across crafts and groups
    • Marketing knowledge: Basic understanding of marketing documentation, strategy and goal setting
    • Problem solving: Adaptiveness to changes, cultural challenges, differing best practices and issues arising from lack of clarity or from impartial situational awareness
Our preference is that the person would work closely with us at our Rovio HQ in Espoo, Finland for a few days a week. We appreciate the possibility to take business trips to Sega in Japan as well if required.

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About The Company

Rovio Entertainment Corporation is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has eight game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), one in Stockholm (Sweden), one in Copenhagen (Denmark), one in Barcelona (Spain), two in Montreal and one in Toronto (Canada). The studios also include a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games, which was acquired in 2021. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. The company’s shares are listed on the main list of NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange with the trading code ROVIO. Sega Europe Limited has acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares and will delist the company from NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange as soon as permitted under applicable laws.

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