Associate Manager, Product Development, Marvel Games

Job Description

Have you dreamed of joining an expert team that will bring the full might and rich mythology of legendary Marvel characters to help creators make exceptional games? Do you have an acute sense of what makes a video game a truly remarkable player experience? Do your gaming habits often interfere with your sleep? Is there an unrelenting drive inside you to play your part in original, memorable Super Hero stories playable via a controller? We are Marvel Games, home of the team that collaborates with the mightiest companies on Earth to bring groundbreaking games to market. We are looking for a Associate Manager, Product Development to join our team and oversee multiple exciting new projects with the most-talented game companies in the world.

Responsibilities:

You Will (responsibilities):
• Be an independent manager, advocate, and champion for numerous concurrent games in development and in the marketplace, ensuring Marvel authenticity and gaming excellence across your projects.
• Be a key point of contact and chief problem solver, and principal collaborator for your external partners' game development, marketing, and promotional efforts.
• Work closely and rapidly with internal and external cross-functional groups to effectively guide projects from development to launch and thru live operations
• Ensure that your game projects stay authentically on brand and make best use of the incredibly rich IP within the Marvel Universe
• Smartly anticipate all product risks, and provide mitigation solutions to your manager that ensure game projects meet or exceed all franchise, financial, and strategic goals
• Provide regular support for other game projects as needed.

You Will (responsibilities):
• Be an independent manager, advocate, and champion for numerous concurrent games in development and in the marketplace, ensuring Marvel authenticity and gaming excellence across your projects.
• Be a key point of contact and chief problem solver, and principal collaborator for your external partners' game development, marketing, and promotional efforts.
• Work closely and rapidly with internal and external cross-functional groups to effectively guide projects from development to launch and thru live operations
• Ensure that your game projects stay authentically on brand and make best use of the incredibly rich IP within the Marvel Universe
• Smartly anticipate all product risks, and provide mitigation solutions to your manager that ensure game projects meet or exceed all franchise, financial, and strategic goals
• Provide regular support for other game projects as needed

Basic Qualifications:

You Are (Qualifications):
• A seasoned pro – You have at least three years of experience in development or publishing roles at industry-leading game companies
• A Swiss Army Knife – You are versatile and familiar with numerous aspects of game making and publishing: production, design, tech, sales, marketing, PR, social media, analytics, monetization, and live services
• A game connoisseur – You are well versed and passionate about current trends in gaming, including console, mobile, PC and competitive gaming
• A people person – You always seek to foster deeper and more productive relationships with the people around you, and you treat them the way you wish to be treated - within the team, within the company, and with all of our external partners. You understand that these relationships are built through effective, frequent, and timely communication with those you work. You communicate eloquently to your managers, peers and reports
• Humble – We collaborate with the top game companies in the world, so ego has no place on this team. You understand that we succeed only through the success of others
• Fire-and-forget – You take ownership over your game projects and are always figuring out newer and better ways to do your job smarter, faster and more effectively
• Team First – You should be ready and willing to support other projects and team members. Our success comes as a team
• An optimizer – Marvel has a bottom-line focused, lean, fast, startup-like culture. You need to be nimble, and willing to wear many hats, but in exchange, you get the freedom to accomplish amazing things
• Passionate about Marvel – We are crazy about our Super Heroes across all mediums: games, comics, toys, film, TV, and many others. You are too

You Have:
• At least three years of experience in production, development, or partnership management positions at industry-leading game companies
• Experience working on at least two shipped mass-market titles, ideally with successful live operations components

Additional Information:

You Will Need To Send
• Your 1-page resume
• A cover letter which must include your answers to the following questions:
• Why you are interested in working at Marvel Entertainment?
• Which game development or publishing discipline are you a master of and why?
• In your opinion, what is the greatest Super Hero game of all time? Why?
• If you could be any Marvel Super Hero or Villain, who would you choose and why?
• What games are you currently playing?

This position is with Marvel Brands LLC, which is part of a business segment we call Marvel Entertainment.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1pnq0-52-14-14-164-42 in your application.