Head of Marketing | Houston Outlaws, Esports Franchise

The esports organization, Houston Outlaws, a franchise in the Overwatch League by Activision-Blizzard, is looking for a full-time Head of Marketing. In this role, you will be primarily focused on the future strategy, identity and vision for the brand. Additionally, you will drive the growth of our fanbase, while also building and curating our brand strategy with local businesses and audiences within Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.

We might be aiming for you, if you:

• Have a background in marketing in the sports and entertainment industry.
• Have built brand strategies resulting in new fans and business opportunities.
• Understand digital audiences and want to be a mad, viral scientist on social platforms.
• Can envision filling a sports venue with fans week after week.
• Believe a young, dynamic and ever-developing digital industry is appealing to you.
• Rally teams to run with brand-focused ideas from start to finish.
• Are organized, detailed, and a great communicator.
• Know deep in your heart that Houston will always be better than Dallas.

You’re essentially tailor-made for this if you:

• Have 3-5+ years brand development experience in a sports franchise or similar context.
• Developed and executed campaigns that were measurable, with key results.
• Have a proven history of directing people and bringing the best out of your team to accomplish big goals.
• Are fluent on social and video platform strategies that drive new fans and partners.
• Have been successful in teaming with sales departments to drive revenue and are ready to do it again.
• Live, or want to be, in Houston and know how to build great relationships.
• Believe new strategies are better than, “this is how it’s always been done.”
• Understand that the sun has set on traditional marketing jargon and activations.
• Think your corporate nickname would be [insert name]-of-all-Trades.

If you’ve come this far, and firmly believe in the future of competitive entertainment, then please submit your updated LinkedIn, along with contact information, to the email address linked below.

Twitter ranked the Houston Outlaws, based on actual data (we like data), as the number one most discussed team in the Overwatch League and the sixth most discussed esports team in the world.

We are a young and vibrant company at the forefront of esports. Your potential colleagues are around-the-clock passionate about the team, the brand, our results, and the industry at large. They will ride into the sunset with a strong leader, ideator, and visionaire; Your team awaits.