Product Marketing Manager

Description

Big Viking Games is a leading social and mobile game development studio. With the headquarters in London, Ontario and a secondary studio in Toronto, Ontario our team of developers, artists and game designers are industry specialists who embrace the challenges of HTML5 mobile game development.
 
The primary responsibility of a full-time Product Marketing Manager is to set direction and create marketing plans for the various titles and features developed and produced by Big Viking Games. 
 
This position is availalable at either of the London, ON & Toronto, ON studios.
 
Responsibilities include:

• Contributing to the overall marketing, communication and public relations strategy
• Acting as a driver of marketing for all products and lead for related initiatives (internal and external)
• Providing market insights to inform product development and live games, including market demand, historical trends and new features
• Assisting with product strategy efforts across the company
• Leveraging data and analytics to drive product strategy
• Procuring RFPs for various marketing initiatives
• Managing the marketing budget along along with the development of marketing processes
• Gathering and analyzing data, information, and research through quantitative and qualitative mechanisms to make decisions on critical strategic issues
• Reconciling player and business needs to create a comprehensive product portfolio
• Identifying key-success factors for products, managing communication positioning and benchmarking performance
• Assisting with the development of a communication strategy for company products
• Managing the development of game assets (ex. trailers, demos, etc.)
• Managing relationships with external design and PR agencies

 
Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in marketing, specifically in the gaming industry required
• Undergraduate degree in a related field
• Passionate about video games
• Experience in fast paced, high growth startups a strong plus
• Extraordinary verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytic skills and experience with metrics driven decision making
• Ability to multitask and take on diverse projects involving multiple factors with a strong track record of delivering against aggressive timelines
• Data-driven approach to decision making along with a passion for trackling ambitious problems
• Ability to work cross-functionally across the organization
• Experience with forecasting, mobile metrics, game mechanics, finance and valuation methodologies, strategy framework, statistics and consumer insight methodologies
• Exceptional skills in Excel, PowerPoint and working knowledge of SQL

Big Viking offers a unique opportunity to work for a leading game development company along with:

• Competitive salaries with full health, dental & vision benefits
• Employee stock option plan
• Stocked kitchen & hot catered lunches daily
• Team building activities such as paintball, movies, Canada's Wonderland, and in-studio events
• Gaming lounge (competition grade foosball, Street Fighter 2 Classic Arcade Machine, XBox 360 & PS4)
• Free in-studio Registered Massage Therapist