Job Title:

Director, Immortal Publishing

Requisition ID:

R017871

Job Description:

Director - Immortal Publishing | Irvine, CA

We are on the hunt for an outstanding, results-oriented Director of Publishing to join Blizzard Entertainment and lead publishing strategy and execution for Diablo’s mobile and PC blockbuster release, Diablo Immortal.

The right candidate will be highly collaborative, passionate, and have a track record for building impactful marketing campaigns grounded by data and insights. They will lead a team and partner across a wide network of internal groups and regions to successfully retain and grow our player base through marketing and community initiatives and serve as the voice of Immortal’s players to development and other company stakeholders.

Diablo Immortal is a fast-paced, dynamic service with regular updates shipping on a bi-weekly basis. This requires excellent planning, partnership, and agility to efficiently connect with partners and players around the globe. Candidates should have a keen eye both for how to optimally market content as well as improve processes while balancing a high volume of information. A successful candidate will help us continue to operationalize our service while also forging impactful go-to-market plans for key game breakthroughs and promotions.

Location fixed:

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Diablo Immortal brand globally, protecting, evolving, and adapting what and how we communicate
• Build authentic, long-lasting relationships with our player base
• Lead communication strategy across Community, Public Relations, Consumer Marketing, CRM and other marketing teams
• Work with publishing leaders across regions to coordinate, develop, measure, and improve global marketing strategies and tactics
• Work closely with Product Management and Live Ops partners to advise business decisions, bringing new business opportunities to market
• Work in partnership with the Sr. Director and Consumer Marketing leads to identify regional creative needs and to help advise and encourage the creative development of core marketing assets
• Analyze performance data to help identify challenges and opportunities for Publishing and marketing overall
• Lead strategic partnerships and partner marketing initiatives, which includes 1st party partner promotions/featuring, co-marketing deals and more
• Work with the consumer insights team to identify gaps in audience knowledge and design research and analysis to address them
• Continually monitor local game analytics, as well as media and marketing program performance and make recommendations to ensure that business goals are exceeded
• Direct a team, coach and develop team members, share marketing standard methodologies across franchises and marketing adjacent groups, and facilitate knowledge sharing abroad
• Manage marketing budgets

Requirements:

• 8+ years of relevant brand/product marketing/publishing experience
• Experience working on games-as-a-service video games or other service oriented products
• Experience working with international marketing teams, evaluating, evolving, and facilitating great regional execution
• Ability to work closely with game development to build effective marketing initiatives
• Ability to coordinate with Community, Public Relations, and Consumer/Digital Marketing leads to build integrated marketing campaigns
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to sell and champion initiatives in a highly matrixed environment

Pluses:

• Passion for and understanding of the Diablo franchise!
• Experience marketing mobile games and working with mobile first-party partners
• Experience with performance marketing

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, and charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $120,600.00 - $223,110.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.