Senior Product Marketing Manager

Posted 18 Days Ago
Be an Early Applicant
Vancouver, BC
In-Office
103K-129K Annually
Senior level
Gaming
The Role
The Senior Product Marketing Manager develops marketing strategies for new and existing games, leads cross-functional teams, manages brand identity, and builds relationships with partners while executing budget management and tracking market trends.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…

Reporting to the Senior Director, Head of Product Marketing, the Senior Product Marketing Manager builds marketing strategy to achieve new and live games' business goals. With a clear understanding of the business goal, this role involves shaping the brand identity, planning consumer-focused marketing strategies and programs to achieve targets, defining marketing priorities, leading the discussion with cross-functional teams for detailed planning, and ensuring execution with project leadership. During the process, the Senior Product Marketing Manager must also be closely aligned with game studios to ensure the marketing goal and programs are aligned with their development & live-ops plan. This role also requires building good relationships with external partners and lead agencies and staying updated on market trends.

This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our Downtown Vancouver studio.

In this role, you can expect to:

  • Key Accountabilities

  • Strategic Planning:
  • Identify marketing opportunities & tasks to achieve business goals for new and live titles. 
  • Devise brand strategy, including brand identity, positioning, and key messaging.
  • Build marketing initiatives for new and live titles and lead discussions with cross-functional teams, including game studios. 
  • Develop marketing campaign strategies based on game content plans and consumer insights to support the success of new and live titles.  
  • Lead cross-functional discussions to develop detailed strategies and plans. 
  • Work with Consumer Insights and Product Development to understand product appeal for various audience segments.

  • Marketing Strategy Execution:
  • Execute marketing programs to drive organic traffic that falls into branding activity area - i.e., PR, and partnerships.  
  • Build a campaign calendar encompassing all activities and ensure consistent execution across all channels with cross-functional teams and external vendors.  
  • Build product-focused presentations to evangelize key features and marketing roadmaps. 
  • Build brand guidelines and lead communications with cross-functional team, especially for new games. 
  • Build key branding asset plan and lead brainstorming process to ensure alignment with branding strategy and act as a center of branding-related communications .
  • Work with ASO manager to build a platform asset strategy that is highly integrated into game content roadmap and brand guideline .
  • Work with the Growth team to ensure growth marketing strategy is aligned with business goal along with creative strategy discussion to make sure alignment with target audience and key marketing initiatives.
  • Stay updated on competition and market trends to inform marketing strategies.

  • Relationship Management:
  • Build relationships with Game Development, and Licensing partners.
  • Oversee partner and vendor relationships for marketing initiatives.
  • Partner with Business Development to represent brands with 1st party partners.

  • Budget Management:
  • Assist in managing annual marketing budgets.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or related field (Master's degree preferred).
  • 7+ years of experience in brand marketing, preferably in the gaming industry.
  • Strategic thinker with a track record of achieving results.
  • Proactive performer to find business opportunities.
  • Project leadership to lead marketing initiatives and communications.
  • Understanding of consumer insights and their application in marketing.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Budget management and financial analysis proficiency.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Passion for gaming and gaming culture knowledge.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

  • Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
  • DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
  • RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
  • PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
  • Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
  • Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
  • Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
  • Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion. 
  • Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
  • Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!

Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!

About Kabam

Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.

Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.

Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Top Skills

Analytics
Branding
Consumer Insights
Marketing Strategy
Project Management
Am I A Good Fit?
beta
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.

The Company
Austin, , Texas
911 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Kabam is a world leader of developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games. We merge consumer behavior with the art of game design to create experiences that are enjoyed by millions of players across the globe. Each game has raised the benchmark in mobile gaming, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology and revolutionary gameplay to the palm of player’s hands.

We have partnered with leading entertainment brands like Disney, Hasbro, and Universal to create mobile games based on some of the world’s most iconic franchises.

Our games have generated hundreds of millions of downloads including Marvel Contest of Champions, Disney Mirrorverse, Shop Titans, Transformers: Forged to Fight, Mini Guns, Fast & Furious 6: The Game, Fast & Furious: Legacy, and Blastron. Many of these games have also received multiple awards such as Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.

Founded in 2006, we have studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, and Seoul. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

Similar Jobs

Autodesk Logo Autodesk

Marketing Manager

Big Data • Cloud • Digital Media • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Industrial
In-Office or Remote
4 Locations
13285 Employees
109K-150K Annually

CrowdStrike Logo CrowdStrike

Senior Consultant

Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Remote or Hybrid
8 Locations
10000 Employees
100K-165K Annually

CrowdStrike Logo CrowdStrike

Technical Account Manager

Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Remote or Hybrid
6 Locations
10000 Employees
115K-160K Annually

MongoDB Logo MongoDB

Escalation Engineer

Big Data • Cloud • Software • Database
Easy Apply
Hybrid
7 Locations
5550 Employees

Similar Companies Hiring

Sandbox VR Thumbnail
Virtual Reality • Retail • News + Entertainment • Gaming • Events
Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon
650 Employees
DraftKings Thumbnail
Sports • Software • Information Technology • Gaming • Esports • Digital Media • Big Data Analytics
Boston, MA
6400 Employees
bet365 Thumbnail
Software • Gaming • Esports • Digital Media • Automation
Denver, Colorado
9000 Employees

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account