Leading advertising media agency seeks talented Senior Project Manager for our award winning gaming and esports specialty team. Our group develops and implements creative marketing strategies to help our Fortune 100 clients navigate the gaming space and make an impact with its audience. We take advertising to the next level by developing custom solutions and activating creative ideas to reach consumers in revolutionary ways. The ideal candidate loves games and has deep knowledge of videogame genres, platforms and esports but also a genuine curiosity for new technologies such as VR/AR and others. Candidates must have the ability to translate the creative “language” of gaming into marketing programs.

Requirements:

• Required understanding of esports environment from leagues to teams, influencers, genres and titles
• Understanding of Twitch and other key gaming platforms as media and content distribution channels
• Overall understanding of the gaming audiences from core to casual
• Must be a self-starter with a strong ability to embrace an entrepreneurial spirit in the context of a corporate environment
• Should be able to demonstrate experience with project management – we don’t want someone who is just about making the trains run on time but the trains do have to run on time. The right candidate will need to have a mix of creative energy and the discipline to see highly customized projects to completion while managing several campaigns and multiple clients
• Must have strong presentation skills – Exhibit the ability to clearly communicate the benefits of a program/idea - a primary function of the group is building from scratch never done before ideas in the space but also reinventing and enhancing existing experiences
• Considered candidates will have 3+ years in esports and game influencer driven campaigns. Advertising background is a plus