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We are a full-service esports company that creates, manages and monetizes competitive video game leagues. We build a title’s competitive community from the ground up, growing it into a unique, professional and world-class esports operation. We manage all league operations and produce expert live entertainment, whether that’s in-studio or at stadium-sized venues. We seek out ambitious partners and act as the leading esports company for new gaming titles.

We are anticipating breakneck growth and are looking for an individual that’s driven to deeply understand and speak to the ambitions of the next generation of competitive games, partners, and communities; for someone who gets fired-up about dreaming up, selling and promoting esports initiatives alongside a small, high-energy team. We want someone who pushes back on the status quo and does things faster and better - because that’s what gets them out of bed in the morning.

As a wise old man once said, “It’s dangerous to go alone, take this!”

WE NEED YOU TO

  • Proactively conduct research and development on new games and products.
  • Use product judgement to navigate complex and ambiguous product requests to deliver defined outcomes as tightly honed proposals that align with our clients’ care points.
  • Act as an internal consultant for esports consulting projects, running client meetings and producing deliverables as needed.
  • Perform client, industry, market and consumer research and intelligence.
  • Orchestrate the development of client proposals during sales pitch process when assigned, including the following:
  • Coordinate with sales staff to interpret client product requests
  • Conduct or provide questions for prospect Q&A call
  • Collaborate with internal teams by creating a Design Brief for the project
  • Accompany Account Executive during sales calls
  • Synthesize data about client buying habits into refined and new products.
  • Commision sales materials such as Set Renders or Format Designs from Subject Matter Experts.
  • Conduct product blue-sky brainstorming sessions with Business Development, Creative Production, Project Management, and Subject Matter Experts to iterate upon client’s initial product vision - codifying it in our internal Design Brief.
  • Use strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate on the creation of high quality Presentation Materials.
  • Use product management tools and frameworks (such as Asana) to steward product deliverables to completion on schedule.
  • Review final product budgets and SOWs with Subject Matter Experts to ensure budget alignment with execution goals.
  • Navigate conflicting interests of each product feature, subject matter discipline, client preference, NGE capabilities, and executive direction to craft the optimal product offering for both NGE and our clientele.
  • Develop internal budgets for esports consulting projects.
  • Act as ongoing product and game authenticity consultant for assigned client projects.
  • Work with leadership to update and maintain internal documents with support from Subject Matter Experts.
  • Iterate product development based on synthesis of both individual Subject Matter Experts’ domain research and market feedback (project post-mortems, client and prospect feedback, overage and underage analysis).
  • Organize and record notes from Creative Production focused Product Design postmortems.
  • Other sales and product duties as assigned.

YOU MUST HAVE

  • Passion for video games and interactive media
  • Experience in Esports, Product Strategy, Live Production, or Product Management
  • A track record of excelling with little supervision
  • Experience managing multiple priorities in high-stress, time sensitive environments
  • The desire for a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment with high ambiguity

Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

YOUR BONA FIDES

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
  • Experience: 2 or more years product development or esports project management experience

Other

  • Work Schedule: Be prepared to help build something great and work long hours, including occasional evenings and weekends
  • Amount of Travel Required: Occasional
  • Work Environment: Typical office, travel (trains, planes and autos), studios and on-location environments

The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.