Senior Marketing Manager (Hybrid)

We are nDreams, the world’s leading developer/publisher focused on VR games.  As our team and portfolio of titles expands, we are on the search for an effective Senior Marketing Manager. Reporting into the Brand Director, the successful applicant will lead the go-to-market plans for assigned titles alongside live service campaigns.  If you are a natural collaborator, with an enthusiasm for marketing, gaming and nurturing effective teams, we would love to hear from you.

The rundown:

• Permanent role
• Full time
• Hybrid

• Manage the development and implementation of marketing activities and campaign beats, ensuring these are effective, delivered on time, and to budget.
• Bring together the wider publishing team to ensure the holistic campaign is effective and fully supported across all areas of the marketing mix.
• Collaborate closely with the development team on build and asset requests, messaging etc.
• Ownership and management of title marketing budget.
• Manage the paid advertising strategy across nDreams titles, working directly with platforms or with agencies as required.
• Collate and analyse campaign data to help shape and optimise future plans.
• Lead new marketing opportunities and innovations within the publishing team, e.g. IP Collaborations, In-Game Advertising etc.
• Management and support of the Associate Brand Manager, ensuring they are motivated, and deadlines and priorities are being met.
• Help foster a positive, collaborative, solutions-orientated team culture that encourages exploration and continual improvement, balanced with quality and timely delivery.

The skills you need:

• 5+ years’ experience within a marketing management role at a video game developer or publisher.
• Experience managing campaigns for GaaS titles would be advantageous.
• Excellent go-to-market campaign planning and execution experience – in particular 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.
• Experience leading, managing and developing effective and motivated marketing professionals, 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 hands-on execution.
• Inquisitive, analytical and thrive on feedback. Willing to find and utilise learning, 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.

We are nDreams – we develop and publish the world’s most immersive VR games. You may know us as the developer behind Synapse, Phantom: Covert Ops, Fracked, and Frenzies. As a publisher, we have also supported the release of other studio’s titles including Little Cities, PowerWash Simulator VR, and Vendetta Forever. With humble beginnings as an independent studio, we combine amazing projects with a personal, caring touch. We’ve got more incredible titles to be announced soon!

We believe the best workplaces and games are created by diverse, happy and safe teams. We're committed to building a culture centred on respect, wellbeing and balance. It's crucial we make our games and industry more accessible to underrepresented communities. We strive to live this through the people we hire, the experiences we create and the causes we support.

We want everyone to have the opportunity to bring their best, authentic self to work. Please let us know if you require reasonable adjustments during the interview process by emailing interviewing@ndreams.com or speaking to your nDreams recruiter. For more information about reasonable adjustments, check out this guidance from Scope.

We offer great perks, including flexible hours, duvets days, your birthday off, dedicated personal development time and support, as well as regular socials. Beyond this, there’s an excellent holiday offering, pension scheme, health insurance, life cover and much more.