Talent Marketing Lead

Job Description

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

As a Talent Marketing Lead you will be responsible for developing a measurable employer brand that attracts and excites world-class talent to and within the Call of Duty (CoD) Franchise, working in coordination with experts in central marketing, communication, and talent

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

Develop and maintain the value proposition:
• Based on CoD's most critical skill/talent pools, develop and maintain an archetype or persona-based set of value propositions and attraction/employee experience themes that build on benchmarks and inform what talent wants and what is CoD's unique voice

Radiate the brand to become a destination for top talent:
• Working with Activision marketing and communications teams, maintain an external and internally facing brand that speaks to the key elements of the value proposition above and positions CoD as a talent magnet
• Work with recruiting and sourcing team to manage and drive lead/applicant pull-through
• Own and keep up-to-date Activision/CoD career site
• Collaborate with corporate and franchise HR COEs to ensure all efforts are part of an integrated architecture around brand, communications, and process

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• 7+ years experience in employer branding – preferably in high-growth tech or adjacent organization
• Experience driving persona-based marketing and brand strategy
• Proven understanding of candidate landscape and engagement channels
• Track record of creative work and creative problem-solving, finding unique and out-of-the-box solutions
• Proven ability to work with numbers and data
• Track record of good project management experiences
• Understanding of candidate landscape and channels
• Project management skills
• MBA and/or advanced management or marketing degree (preferred)

Extra Points:
• Is a creative and design/human-centered thinker
• Is a strong conceptual problem-solver and organized executor
• Collaborates cross-functionally (e.g. with different experts throughout the organization) to get the best answer
Our World
Our mission, to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment has never been more important. Through communities rooted in our video game franchises we enable hundreds of millions of people in 190 countries to experience joy, thrill and achievement. We enable social connections through the lens of fun and we foster purpose and a sense of accomplishment through healthy competition. Like sport, but with greater accessibility, our players can find purpose and meaning through competitive gaming. Video games, unlike any other social or entertainment media, have the ability to break down the barriers that can inhibit tolerance and understanding. As a business we have an extraordinary track record of delivering stakeholder value for over 30 years. We are a member of the Fortune 500 and the S&P 500. Our enduring franchises are some of the world's most popular, including Activision's Call of Duty® and Crash Bandicoot™, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Hearthstone®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, and King's Candy Crush™, Bubble Witch™, and Farm Heroes™. Our sustained success has enabled the company – through its support of the Call of Duty Endowment – to help find employment for over 80,000 veterans. Learn more information about Activision Blizzard and its world of epic entertainment on the company's website, www.activisionblizzard.com.

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