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Working within the Square Enix West Marketing organisation, the Gameplay Capture Specialist will support the Strategic team in providing exciting, engaging and on-brand gameplay capture for use in building marketing assets.

A keen FINAL FANTASY XIV player, the right candidate will understand all aspects of the game, bringing an artistic eye and passion for visual storytelling, and cinematography.

Requirements

Key Deliverables:

  • Capture both cinematic and gameplay content from within FINAL FANTASY XIV, creating captivating videos and imagery which demonstrate the game’s key features and impressive visuals.

  • Build an in-depth understanding of in-game systems debug commands.

  • Edit and cut captured content for review and approvals.

  • Collaborate with the requirements of marketing and social campaigns with gameplay capture of FINAL FANTASY XIV – both static and video.

  • Work to long term schedules against evergreen acquisition campaigns, patch cycles, seasonal events, Optional Item Store content, Free Login Campaigns, Callback Campaigns and more.

  • Work with the Community management team to support in the creation of assets through key social platforms including IG Stories, Facebook, TikTok etc.

  • Determine requirements to support email marketing campaigns.

  • Demonstrate a clear understanding of the premium, high-quality assets required by the business and adhere to the relevant creative toolkits and capture guides provided.

  • Work with varying levels of supervision and direction, ranging from complete autonomy to working with a director to capture specific requests.

Stakeholder Management

  • FFXIV Strategic Marketing Team

  • Square Enix West Creative

  • External Agencies

  • Square Enix Japan

  • Localisation QA

  • Community & Social

Key Stakeholders:

Marketing Directors, Territory marketing teams, Community & Service and Production teams, Social, PR & Influencer relations teams.

Knowledge & Experience:

Essential:

  • A core FFXIV player with a strong understanding of players’ expectations to deliver the best campaigns to them.

  • Strong grasp on concepts of composition, framing, lighting, and colour in visual media

  • A strong understanding of applying cinematic filming techniques to game capture, such as, camera movement, depth of field, etc.

  • A passion for games and creating video content.

  • Experienced with video capture software.

  • Technically proficient with both PCs and consoles, and able to troubleshoot technical problems with hardware and software.

  • Good project management capabilities and planning, with good knowledge in online tools to save time and work efficiently.

  • Good knowledge of digital marketing landscape

  • A strong team player, able to work well under pressure.

  • A good knowledge of the general gaming market, especially in the MMORPG genre, and able to identify trends to ensure FFXIV can stand out.

Desirable:

  • Some understanding of the Japanese games market and any differences in market preferences and publishing strategies and tactics, to Western markets.

  • Experience creating captivating visual assets and content for use media/marketing campaigns.

  • Portfolio demonstrating cinematography experience.

  • Experience with video editing software.

Competencies, Skills & Attributes:

Essential:

  • Strong interpersonal skills with a can-do attitude.

  • Able to work in multi-cultural environment.

  • Able to work under pressure and be proactive to find solutions.

  • Rigorous and organized while being flexible as needed.

  • Proactive and curious.

  • Relishes working in a fast-paced chancing environment.

Desirable:

  • Additional languages (European &/or Japanese) a plus but not compulsory.

Other:

Essential:

  • Willing to travel and stay away from home. Valid Passport to enable international travel, where necessary.

  • General interest in current trends in entertainment content and promotion.

Desirable:

  • Shows passion and excitement about video games, keeps up to date with developments within industry.

Our goal at Square Enix is to hire, retain, develop and promote the best talent, regardless of age, gender, race, religious, belief, sexual orientation or physical ability.

Our pledge to D&I

At Square Enix we believe in the importance of being a diverse and global company, and we stand firmly together against any forms of injustice, intolerance, harassment or discrimination. In our effort to create a truly diverse workforce, we pledge to continue to raise awareness in every step of the employee experience, from recruitment to promotions to ensure equal opportunities for all. One of our goals is to champion diversity in games and at work and work together to inspire real change.

Learning and education around D&I will be a key element for us to continue to grow as an organization. With unconscious bias training, D&I workshops and a variety of initiatives to give our employees the opportunity to be heard and be part of that change to achieve real equality. We need all our efforts to continue to build our culture of inclusion and equality.

We are also proud to partner with UKIE's Raise the Game pledge, BAME in Games and Women in Games, to name a few.

Hybrid Working Policy

Square Enix is pleased to be an employer that offers flexibility within the workplace.

We have a hybrid working policy which allows employees to work from the comfort of their home, three days per week, and in our amazing Blackfriars office for the other two.

Or, if being in the Office is your preference, you can choose three days working from our office and two days working from home. The choice is yours!