Marketing Director

Fire Hose Games

$90K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in a Marketing Leadership role, specifically in gaming
  • Proven track record marketing video games from development to post-launch
  • Deep passion and knowledge of indie games and the gaming industry
  • Experience managing multi-channel marketing budgets effectively
  • Strong brand-building skills with a history of engaging storytelling
  • Expertise in grassroots, guerrilla, and viral marketing strategies
  • Strong social media marketing background, including influencer relations

Responsibilities

  • Design and lead comprehensive marketing strategies for game launches
  • Develop compelling product marketing materials, including positioning and messaging
  • Execute multi-channel marketing campaigns targeting key player demographics
  • Oversee community management initiatives to boost player engagement
  • Optimize marketing budgets to enhance user acquisition and revenue growth
  • Manage public relations and communication efforts with media and the gaming community
  • Conduct market and user research to inform strategic decisions

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with team synchronization in the U.S. Eastern time zone
  • Opportunity to make a significant impact in an indie game studio
  • Engage with a passionate gaming community
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Focus on professional growth and experiential learning opportunities
Full Job Description
Job Description

Want to make an impact at a fantastic indie studio? This is your chance.

Fire Hose Games is looking to bring on an entrepreneurial, innovative, hard-working, and experienced Marketing leader. This is a hands-on, broad-scope role with significant business impact. It includes managing go-to-market strategy, marketing channels' growth, product positioning, branding, market research, user research, community management, PR, user acquisition, and team management.

As the Marketing Director, you'll also serve as the bridge between our players and our internal teams, ensuring that our games resonate deeply with our audience.

Our studio is fully remote, so candidates who are able to sync with a project team based in the U.S. Eastern time zone may work from anywhere. This is a full-time, salaried position.

If you're excited about helping us continue to grow our most ambitious game yet, then we're eager to hear from you!

Responsibilities
  • Design and lead marketing strategy and direct the execution of all go to market activities to drive player and creator awareness, traffic, installs, retention, and revenues.
  • Develop product marketing, key positioning statements, branding, value proposition, and messaging strategy.
  • Execute marketing campaigns across all channels, leveraging audience and network aggregation with key target audiences.
  • Oversee the creation and deployment of grassroots marketing and community management programs aimed at increased engagement
  • Drive adoption, engagement, and revenues with an efficient and effective marketing budget.
  • Manage PR and Communications with the media and the Fire Hose Games community to develop and solidify corporate and product positioning
  • Create and direct market, competitive, and user research.
  • Analyze the performance of marketing programs across all channels (including ad spend) to identify the best opportunities for optimization and regularly iterate to maximize performance
  • Advocate for the player community in high level design discussions and planning meetings


Qualifications
  • 5+ years in a hands-on, Marketing Leadership role
  • A proven track record marketing video games, from development, through launch and beyond.
  • A passion for and deep knowledge of video games (specifically Indie) and the industry as a whole
  • Demonstrated success managing a marketing budget across multiple channels to drive efficient and sustained user and revenue growth
  • An excellent brand builder and storyteller; proven success crafting brands from the ground up and a track record of building brand engagement and generating business growth.
  • Successfully managed campaigns using grassroots, guerrilla, and viral marketing as well as community management
  • A strong background in social media marketing across all relevant platforms
  • Experience working with influencers. Engaging, negotiating and managing.
  • Experience serving as a liaison. Bridging Marketing efforts with internal efforts, utilizing feedback and analysis towards meaningful development insights.
  • Excellent spoken and written communication skills, allowing you to deliver complex information clearly to your colleagues and through marketing material
  • Demonstrated effective leadership including ability to build and foster successful teams that scale


Additional Information

Videos To Watch
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