Ubisoft

Marketability Director

Ubisoft$90K — $120K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • University degree in a relevant field or equivalent education
  • 7-10 years of experience in video game marketing or product positioning
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects effectively
  • Results-oriented with a focus on stakeholder service
  • Functional bilingualism in French and English
  • In-depth knowledge of the video game market

Responsibilities

  • Define the product's marketability fundamentals and unique selling propositions
  • Develop and evolve the product's marketing vision
  • Define marketability guidelines for new content and features
  • Collaborate with the Go-To-Market Director to align product foundations and business needs
  • Provide player insights and market trends to guide product development
  • Act as a player advocate for product evolution discussions
  • Initiate strategies to enhance product desirability across dimensions
  • Translate product changes into actionable value propositions and documentation
  • Develop marketability deliverables like product bibles and guidelines
  • Define asset requirements and guide production for marketing consistency
  • Track metrics for marketability and product desirability
  • Evaluate performance metrics and benchmark market trends
  • Manage a team of Marketability experts and foster a collaborative culture

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional growth and coaching
  • Involvement in innovative product development
  • Collaboration with a diverse team of experts
  • Influence on product evolution based on player feedback
  • Access to employee development opportunities
Full Job Description
Define and manage a product's marketability to ensure its desirability, consistency, and clarity of value proposition to players. Develop a strategic framework to guide development teams and inform go-to-market strategies through clear, consistent, and actionable marketing foundations. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Define the fundamentals of the product's marketability, including its core elements, positioning, USPs, visual and verbal identity, as well as the principles that ensure consistency, differentiation, and continuity across products. • Develop and evolve the product's marketing vision to ensure its relevance to players, consistency across experiences, and alignment with business goals. • Define marketability guidelines for content themes, products, and new features to ensure they align with the product's positioning, player expectations, and development objectives. • Collaborate closely with the Go-To-Market Director to ensure that the product's foundations meet marketing and business needs as well as market realities. • Provide development teams with player insights (motivations, perceptions, feedback, reception of new features), market trends, and business needs to ensure a player-centric approach to product development. • Act as a spokesperson for players in discussions regarding product evolution and evaluate content decisions through the lens of marketability. • Initiate marketability strategies to enhance the product's desirability and ensure consistency across all its dimensions. • Collaborate with insights teams and marketing experts to identify growth opportunities, emerging expectations, and market trends. • Translate product changes (features, content, monetization, new releases) into value propositions, documentation, and content that can be leveraged by Go-To-Market, Business, and marketing partner teams. • Develop the marketability deliverables necessary for understanding and promoting the product, including product bibles, naming frameworks, build & capture guidelines, and product understanding content. • Define marketability asset requirements and guide their production in collaboration with the Go-To-Market and Creative Services teams to support business needs, promote USPs, and ensure product consistency across marketing touchpoints. • Ensure that business priorities and Go-To-Market needs are factored into marketability outputs to maximize their relevance and impact. • Define and track marketability and product desirability metrics to assess the resonance of the positioning, player perception, and the product's marketing health. • Develop measurement approaches to evaluate marketability performance (brand equity, intent-to-play, excitement metrics, reception of new features, etc.) and identify opportunities and risks. • Conduct regular reviews to identify lessons learned, benchmark market trends, and inform future product direction. • Manage and develop a team of Marketability experts covering Product Marketing and Product Management. • Foster a culture of product expertise, collaboration with development teams, and marketing consistency. • Support employee development through coaching, clear prioritization, and growth opportunities. • Perform all other related tasks. QUALIFICATIONS WHAT YOU'LL BRING • A university degree in a relevant field or equivalent education. • At least 7 to 10 years of experience in video game marketing or other relevant experience in product positioning and strategy. • Leadership and excellent interpersonal communication skills • Ability to manage and adapt to change • Ability to work effectively on multiple projects simultaneously • Results-oriented and committed to serving stakeholders • Ability to defend one's point of view, even when it is unpopular • Ability to delegate and empower others • Functional bilingualism (French and English) • In-depth knowledge of the video game market and industry • Human resources management skills • Ability to incorporate a creative vision into the development of marketing products, taking into account market trends and player expectations

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment SA is a French video game company headquartered in Montreuil with several development studios across the world. It publishes games for several video game franchises, including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Just Dance, Prince of Persia, Rayman, Raving Rabbids, and Tom Clancy's. The company's largest development studio is Ubisoft Montreal in Canada, which is responsible for the development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Watch Dogs, among others. Ubisoft is the fourth largest publicly traded game company in the Americas and Europe in terms of revenue and market capitalization, after Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive. The company has over 18,000 employees and has development studios in 35 countries. Ubisoft's revenue for the fiscal year 2020-2021 was ?2.2 billion.
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