Wattpad

[WEBTOON] Global Brand Marketing Manager

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

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of brand marketing experience in entertainment or fandom industries.
  • Experience developing brand strategies and executing integrated multi-channel campaigns.
  • Strong grasp of the U.S. entertainment landscape and consumer trends.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority in global settings.
  • Experience collaborating with internal creative teams and external agencies for impactful campaigns.
  • Analytical skills to leverage research and data for strategic decisions.
  • Exceptional project management skills to handle multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Help build WEBTOON's brand foundation and strategies for U.S. and global growth.
  • Shape the brand's marketing vision, positioning, and messaging.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure consistent brand execution across channels.
  • Lead execution of brand campaigns and multi-channel activations from planning to execution.
  • Manage campaign budgets, timelines, and vendor relationships with the Creative team.
  • Partner with Creative teams to develop compelling campaign concepts and assets.
  • Develop frameworks to measure campaign effectiveness and optimize future initiatives.

Benefits

  • Career development support and mentorship opportunities.
  • Health benefits, including vision and dental coverage.
  • Generous PTO and parental leave top-up.
  • 401K contributions offered.
  • Commuter benefits to ease travel costs.
  • Employee discount programs for WEBTOON and LINE FRIENDS.
  • Winter break shutdown to promote work-life balance.
Full Job Description
As the Brand Marketing Manager, you will join WEBTOON's Global Brand Task Force, working cross-functionally with teams around the world to build the brand foundation for WEBTOON in the U.S. and, ultimately, globally. Reporting to the Director of Brand & Partnerships within the EN Brand & Audience Development team, you'll play a high visibility role at the center of how WEBTOON shows up in the world. It's an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys building brands, thrives in highly collaborative environments, and is passionate about entertainment, fandom, and culture. **Essential Duties** - As a member of the Global Brand Task Force, help build WEBTOON's brand foundation in the U.S. and globally, and develop short, mid, and long-term strategies to drive brand growth. - Shape WEBTOON's brand marketing vision, positioning, and core messaging. - Partner cross-functionally with teams across the company worldwide to ensure the brand is executed consistently across all channels, and keep brand initiatives aligned with measurable user growth goals. - Own execution of always-on and major brand campaigns and 360-degree, multi-channel activations end to end-from planning through execution - including digital advertising, OOH, experiential, strategic partnerships, and influencer/celebrity partnerships. - Manage campaign budgets, timelines, and agency/vendor relationships, working in close partnership with the Creative team. - Partner with Creative teams to develop compelling campaign concepts, messaging, and creative assets that consistently reinforce the WEBTOON brand. - Develop measurement frameworks to evaluate campaign effectiveness and to optimize future initiatives based on the results. - Track and report campaign and brand performance on an ongoing basis-including the impact on platform metrics as well as brand health indicators such as awareness, consideration, preference, and perception. - Develop scalable marketing frameworks and campaign playbooks that improve execution efficiency and collaboration across the Task Force and broader team. **Required Qualifications** - 5+ years of brand marketing experience, ideally within entertainment or fandom-driven industries. - Proven experience developing brand strategies and executing integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns. - Strong understanding of the U.S. entertainment landscape, media ecosystem, and consumer trends. - Experience working within a global organization, with a demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and influence teams without direct authority. - Experience collaborating with internal creative teams and external agencies to develop impactful creative campaigns. - Strong analytical mindset with the ability to leverage consumer research, brand tracking, and campaign performance data to inform strategy. - Exceptional project management and organizational skills, with the ability to independently manage multiple initiatives, budgets, timelines, and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment. - Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills. - Highly adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and a dynamic work environment. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience marketing to fandom-driven audiences with a strong understanding of community building and audience engagement. - Familiarity with WEBTOON, anime, manga, web novels, gaming, or adjacent fandom communities is strongly preferred. - Bilingual proficiency in English and Korean is strongly preferred. **Salary Range & Description** $90,000 - $130,000 / annually Please note, the above range is listed in USD. **What we offer (For Full-Time Only):** * Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals * Health benefits, including vision and dental! * Generous PTO and Parental Leave Top-up * 401K Contributions * Commuter Benefits * Global WEBTOON and LINE FRIENDS discount program * Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more! With approximately 155 million monthly active users, WEBTOON Entertainment's IP & Creator Ecosystem of aligned brands and platforms include WEBTOON, Wattpad--the world's leading webnovel platform--WEBTOON Productions, Studio N, Studio LICO, WEBTOON Unscrolled, LINE MANGA, and eBookJapan, among others. Join us and work with some of the biggest artists, IP, and fandoms in comics! #WEBTOON

About Wattpad

Wattpad is a social storytelling platform that allows users to share and discover stories across a range of genres, including romance, science fiction, and mystery. The platform has over 80 million monthly users and over 500 million stories. Wattpad's users are primarily young adults and teenagers. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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