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To enhance the credibility of Red Bull within the world of gaming and esports To create the Gaming Sphere as the home of gaming and esports in the UK, building a core community of gamers, fans, publishers, partners, and influencers within it. To inspire, enable, challenge and encourage consumers within esports and gaming by delivering consistent activations, community engagement, and unique activities. To identify new opportunities within esports which we are not currently active in.

AREAS THAT PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTHS
(all the responsibilities we'll trust you with)

Day-to-Day Tasks

  • Management of the Sphere on a daily basis, setup based on the daily and weekly schedule.
  • Operation of small-scale broadcasts.

Building Networks and Relationships

  • Develop extensive networks and relationships across multiple gaming communities, relevant partners, and publishers.
  • Understand the best ways to engage with the community, ranging from players, to publishers, content creators, fans, etc.

People Management

  • Embody and drive the company values, increasing awareness of the brand in the public space.
  • Champion the company's strength based people development philosophy.
  • Supervise, direct, support all freelance teams necessary for events.
  • Work with Athlete Managers to create and deliver athlete projects.

Planning and Strategy

  • Create and execute a wide-ranging gaming strategy, creating community initiatives, adding player value, and following the trends of players and the scene.
  • Plan and manage community programs that connect players, empower the community, and bring the company closer to players, then analyse and evaluate the results to see which ones were most effective.

Events

  • Ensure effective integration of Red Bull branding across all events according to international benchmarks and guidelines.
  • Ensure relevant and functional product usage pre, during and post events across all events.
  • Ensure correct, credible integration of event partners across all events.
  • Responsible for overall events budget working with the wider events team and procurement to make event spend as efficient as possible.
  • To project manage both national and international Red Bull titled events as well as non-branded events within the Gaming Sphere from initial concept to realisation.
  • To champion innovation and creativity through delivering new athlete project and esports event ideas which feed into the business plan.
  • Management of internal project teams including communications, moving image, sales, advertising.
  • Management of external partners including production agencies, stakeholders and consultants
  • Project review and analysis.
  • Budget management.

Creativity

  • Creation of new event concepts and athlete projects.
  • Feasibility and development of future event projects.
  • Business planning input.

YOUR EXPERIENCE INCLUDES:
(proven performance in)

  1. 3 years experience working in the esports industry.
  2. Experience of professional broadcasting.
  3. Strong community links in the UK gaming and esport industry.
  4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  5. Effective budget management.
  6. General knowledge of common esports titles.
  7. Desirable
  8. Basic Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects knowledge
  9. General knowledge about livestream:
  10. setting and operating of live software mixing (Vmix, Xsplit)
  11. Setting and operating Camera (PTZ, HD-SDI, NDI)
  12. Setting and operating lights (DMX)
  13. Setting and operating audio mixer (Dante)
  14. School leaver certificate
  15. Fluent written and spoken English, additional language skills an advantage

EXTRAS

  • Travel up to 25%

INSTRUCTIONS

In your cover letter, please include an explanation of why your experience is specifically relevant to this role at Red Bull. We want to see your personal style – what makes you tick and why you think your next opportunity is here with us.