Mayamada is a creative manga brand featured in NEO Magazine, Mashable, Bleeding Cool and the BBC among others. We have exhibited at comic conventions across the UK and internationally.
We create manga-style comics set within our own universe: a television network with an all-animal cast of characters. Each manga title tells the story of a different show on the network.
As a Junior Event and Content producer, you will be supporting virtual and in-person events and developing content that can be used across a variety of media including digital, social media and online broadcast.
A large (but not exclusive) area of focus will be on managing our GamePad Online events. This will include utilising platforms such as Discord, YouTube and Twitch to support the organisation of tournaments, interviews and panel livestreams.
Your written and verbal communication skills will allow you to work well with a range of collaborators, you will assist mayamada co-founder and writer Nigel Twumasi, GamePad Host Tazziii to bring our events to life and be part of growing the community around the brand.
We are looking for individuals with a positive and proactive approach to their work. Ideally, you will have an interest in anime, manga, comics, video games or Japanese culture.
We have a strong brand culture that values using your talent and imagination to create new solutions that help our team and community. As a small company, being able to contribute to a team is vital as well as pursuing learning to gain skills that help the brand in addition to you as an individual.
Other requirements include the ability to:
- Research ideas and concepts to meet event and content briefs.
- Work both unsupervised and collaboratively within a team to effectively deliver a shared creative vision.
- Explain and pitch your ideas clearly to the events and content team, responding positively to feedback.
- Demonstrate integrity, dependability, responsibility and accountability.
- Enthusiasm and a thorough and flexible approach to work and to personal development and life-long learning.
- Respond to audience feedback in a timely and appropriate manner
- A comprehensive understanding of the mayamada brand and GamePad event.
- mayamada website.
- GamePad website.
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