Senior Staff Brand Manager

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Senior Staff Brand Manager | Exclusive Games Marketing
Los Angeles, CA (hybrid)

Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking to hire a Senior Staff Brand Manager to support our exclusive games developed by PlayStation Studios. Reporting directly into the Senior Director, Global Brand Marketing, this role will work closely with a team of global marketers and partner with development studios to craft the brand and global go-to-market marketing strategy for several high-profile game titles.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Marketing and Brand Strategy

• Define global brand and product strategy, including positioning, unique selling points, and go-to-market approach based on strategic target audiences, market, and player insights.
• Lead global cross-functional teams, responsible for pulling together holistic global business results for their portfolio.
• Accountable for the success of the global marketing campaign.
• Ensure consistent representation of brands global activations while overseeing tactical execution on global campaigns for multiple titles.
• Manage internal creative teams and external agencies to deliver key marketing and creative assets and programs while ensuring alignment across multiple stakeholders.

Studio Partnership

• Partner with development studios to develop product marketing strategy for game titles, including determining appropriate target audiences, business models (financial models and/or monetization strategies), launch timing, and product/service feature sets.
• Ensure consumer insights are provided during the development of games through world-class qualitative and quantitative research.

Budget Management

• Financial responsibility for marketing strategies, initiatives and advertising related efforts for franchises.
• Manage global marketing budget for portfolio of titles.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Deep understanding of and experience working on and shipping AAA Game is a must, platform experience a plus.
• Demonstrated record of success in developing high impact global consumer strategies, mass market marketing campaigns, brand marketing, and direct to consumer performance-based marketing, for a portfolio of games/services.
• Must have broad experience and understanding of all facets of the marketing discipline including consumer insights, product positioning, consumer promotions, online innovation and creative development.
• Ability of influencing and engaging external and internal stakeholders in a franchise brand vision.
• Extensive knowledge of and a passion for video games is a huge plus.

RELATED EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION:

• 10+ years of brand and product marketing.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent (MBA a plus)

At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$192,100—$288,100 USD

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Deep understanding of and experience working on and shipping AAA Games. Demonstrated record of success in developing high impact global consumer strategies, mass market marketing campaigns, and brand marketing. Broad experience and understanding of all facets of the marketing discipline including consumer insights, product positioning, consumer promotions, online innovation, and creative development. Ability to influence and engage external and internal stakeholders in a franchise brand vision. 10+ years of brand and product marketing experience. Bachelors degree or equivalent.