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Marketing & Communications Manager
Sumo Digitalb Full-Time

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Established in 2007, Sumo Video Games is one of India’s leading video game developers. We work hand in hand with Sumo Digital’s UK studios to build ground-breaking games and content for some of the world’s biggest publishers including Microsoft, Sony, Apple and Sega.

It’s an exciting time to be part of Sumo, winners of the Develop: Star Awards 2019 Best Studio; big things are on the horizon and we want you to be part of our continued journey. Join us!

Sumo India Studios are on the lookout for a proactive and experienced Marketing and Communications Manager with experience across all aspects of the marketing mix. This is an exciting opportunity for the right individual to join Sumo India Studios and Sumo Group.

You’ll be responsible for creating compelling marketing communications content and programs published via various channels, internally and externally, that help drive awareness, spark meaningful partnerships within the industry, raise the profile of our people and ensure all activity achieves a high level of professional delivery and consistency of brand and messaging. The successful candidate will be a digitally minded, creative marcomm professional who can produce high quality well-written and accurate content and online media marketing programs.

You will have a background in design, content, communications or marketing within the video gaming industry, B2B Tech either in-house or agency side, or a mixture of both. You will be a team player, with creative flair. You will bring an enthusiastic and energetic attitude to teams around you.

Sumo Group is a dynamic organization and the environment is fluid. Roles and responsibilities can often be expanded to accommodate changing business conditions and objectives as well as to tap into the skills and talents of its employees. This job description therefore contains representative duties and minimum requirements for the role, however they are not designed to be exhaustive. Sumo Group reserves the right to amend a Job Description at any time, with or without notice.

You’ll be the main driver for marketing for Sumo India Studios with close links with a small, high performing and collaborative team, working on both regional and global projects. If this sounds like the right opportunity to further your career, please apply now.

Roles and Responsibilities
1. Ensuring consistency of brand and messaging across different media and audiences for Sumo India studios using first rate English oral and writing skills.
2. Developing studio messaging and standardized content.
3. Identifying and writing compelling stories and sharable content and leveraging them to raise the profile of our work and our people.
4. Develop strategic campaigns and maintain a continuous stream of always-on sector/studio focused content to raise awareness and drive demand into the recruitment teams.
5. Identify industry opportunities, including events, awards, conferences, and media/PR opportunities.
6. Work with a domestic PR agency to further drive PR opportunities and Studio exposure.
7. Deliver an annual programme of tactical activity to profile our India studios, projects, and people, including social media campaigns, events, videos, podcasts, articles and media/PR opportunities.
8. Collaborate with the wider Global Marketing team and key stakeholders to identify, develop and deliver integrated campaigns to communicate.
9. Managing our studio websites and digital profiles.
Key Requirements
2. To be successful in this role you will have:
3. An experienced communications professional with demonstrable writing ability and strong digital skills, you are highly literate and able to produce accurate, clear, and effective content.
4. Relevant experience in a similar role delivering a programme of communications across a range of channels
5. The ability to build relationships with a range of key internal stakeholders in a global, matrixed organization.
6. Experience liaising with Marketing Teams and Disciplines, Studio Management, PR Agencies and journalists.
7. Experience writing digital communications, e.g. round-ups, web content, social media content etc.
8. Experience project managing campaigns and communications.
9. Support employer branding and marketing initiatives by generating creative campaigns that boost audience engagement.
10. Source and produce (write) content that gets our people excited about what’s happening at Sumo India Studios and Sumo Group as a whole.
11. Experience in video games would be preferred but is not essential.
12. Experience of planning and coordinating multiple projects concurrently.
Aptitude/Skills and Abilities
1. A high level of written and Oral English.
2. Basic Photography and Adobe Suite skills.
3. A high level of motivation and proactivity, with the ability to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement and have the flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
4. Enjoy working in a fast-paced and highly collaborative team environment.
5. Collaborator who brings other stakeholders on board with ideas.
6. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
7. Ability to own and make decisions with incomplete information.
8. Understanding of communications needs whilst scaling globally.
Competencies
1. Know-how and skill.
2. Problem solving.
3. Communication.
4. Influence & Impact.
5. Resource Accountability.
What we offer:

Our Studio is unique in India, giving our staff the opportunity to work directly on all leading gaming platforms, at every stage of game development.

Being part of Sumo's Pune studio is a rewarding experience, one that requires dedication, a strong sense of ownership over your work and an overwhelming enthusiasm for the games you work on.

In return we offer competitive salary, flexi-time & benefits, and excellent working environment and most importantly we will give you the room to be yourself and live your passion.

Additionally, we provide relocation reimbursement from other cities, a performance-linked bonus in addition to the fixed salary, opportunities to attend industry conferences and a complete and all-encompassing medical insurance package for our employees and their children.

Come join the team.

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