Title: Business Development Assistant
Job Location: Remote USA, or Remote LATAM
Employment Type: Full Time
Announcement No. PK-21
About Us
Pittsburgh Knights LLC is a professional esports organization headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was officially launched on December 1st, 2017. We are widely recognized as the top esports team in the region.
Under the Knights brand, our handpicked teams compete globally for prize money across multiple video game titles. In addition to a percentage of tournament winnings, our company works on brand sponsorships, merchandise sales, ad revenue, league revenues, virtual goods, and esports camps.
Why choose Pittsburgh Knights
We're dedicated to our work, our company, our clients, and the most fun of all, Gaming! If you are searching for a position with an up-and-coming company that will expose you to more opportunities than you can imagine while working in a fast-paced gaming environment then you have successfully found the right place!
Make an impact through your work on real projects and involvement in the gaming community.
Job Summary/ General Description:
Under the direction of the Business Development Director, this position will be responsible for monitoring, measuring, and analyzing the effectiveness of partnerships as they relate to the overall company's goals.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in Business Development and Marketing Activities
- Provide day-to-day support to the BD Managers and Directors on various BD and marketing initiatives.
- Assist with activities related to client relations or company promotion, including media relations and other BD tasks.
- Assist in tracking new requests and submission deadlines for various projects.
- Daily, weekly, and monthly KPI tracking
- Manage calendars for Head of Department and the department calendar
- Coordinate daily schedule for a Business development director
Meetings-Notes and Agendas
- Ensure that department meetings have a clear agenda and that this is circulated in advance of meeting start
- Attend client meetings and take notes and distribute accordingly in a timely fashion, clearly outlining key points and action items in Asana.
- Minute taking for daily internal meetings, listing action points, and tracking day today.
- Determine cross-departmental responsibilities based on internal and external communication
Project Support
- Help all departments coordinate and track partnership deliverables.
- Assist as needed with creating or editing Partnership pitch presentations
- Assist with tracking and following up on NDA sent to the Legal Department and any other legal documentation.
- Client Mapping as needed
- Create and publish Daily Industry Update news email for circulation
- Elicits requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.
- Communicates and collaborates with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements including flowcharts, data flow diagrams, pseudo code, entity-relationship diagrams, explanatory narrative, Screen and Interface designs.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or relevant experience
- 3+ years of administrative assistant experience
- PMP Certification preferred
- Has experience or understanding of scrum methodologies ie sprint planning, review, and retrospective.
- High-level organization skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize goals
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Ability to work evenings, weekends, based on business needs
- Must be able to take initiative (emphasize), and independently complete tasks and projects
- Must maintain a positive, professional attitude always and be receptive to input and constructive criticism
- Proficient within Asana project management tools
- Well-versed in the usage of Microsoft Office / Google products
- Experience with communication / social platforms such as Discord and Linkedin
What you will bring to Pittsburgh Knights
You are a quick-thinking self-starter with a passion for games. You will support project work that will drive value, improve processes and enhance collaboration within the organization. You are comfortable working in a startup environment. You like to create new initiatives and develop them independently.
Pittsburgh Knights provide an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (EEO): Pittsburgh Knights provides equal opportunity and fair and equitable treatment in employment to all people without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, political affiliation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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