Craft:
Marketing
Job Description:
Activision Blizzard Media brings innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. This division builds powerful advertising solutions that are embraced by the world's largest marketers. Activision Blizzard Media connects brands and players with fan-first integrated advertising experiences across gaming and esports. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush, esports like the Call of Duty League, the Overwatch League and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and StarCraft. We are looking for a hands-on, meticulous, and highly motivated business marketing strategist to join our growing Ads team. In this role, you will coordinate the development of differentiated ad strategies focused on growing brand and vertical partnerships. You will be responsible for imbuing deep brand and category expertise into our product roadmaps and go-to-market plans. You will develop go-to-market strategies focused on driving revenue within crucial industry verticals. Working collaboratively with sales, product marketing, and operations, you will create scalable partnership programs, vertical sales narratives, and collateral that drive demand for our ad solutions among top advertising partners.
Job Description
Identify business opportunities among key brands and categories
Gather competitive intelligence
Develop and implement global go-to-market vertical ads strategies
Develop and implement global partnership pitches and proposals
Partner cross-functionally to develop scalable sales narratives and collateral
Drive sales enablement in partnership with Sales and Operations leadership
Source customer feedback; Communicate customer needs to Product leadership during planning cycles.
Develop case studies
Skills to Create Thrills
6+ years experience in a strategy role within a top-tier brand or agency; CPG, Tech or Entertainment experience preferred.
Experience building relationships with marketing decision-makers at brands and agencies.
Comfortable building and managing relationships across business stakeholders, internal and external.
Excellent communication, content building and storytelling skills
Strong analytical and organizational skills with experience working through cross functional teams.
Goal-oriented, highly motivated, takes full ownership of projects
Seasoned public speaker who can represent Activision Blizzard Media externally as needed at industry events, panels, etc
Openness and flexibility to travel as needed
Previous managerial experience a plus
About Activision Blizzard Media
Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty and Overwatch Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and StarCraft.
The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.
We need all sorts of heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.
Ready to play?
Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.
All applications should be made in English.
Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/
