Job Description

Blizzard Entertainment seeks a seasoned eSports and community senior manager with excellent leadership, management, communication skills and passion for gaming / social networking services (SNS) to join our Korea team.

The ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter who is flexible and can adapt quickly to changing goals and objectives. This person is also highly organized and able to work independently while contributing to the goals of a team.

Responsibilities

• Develop, and / or, execute eSports / community strategies and manage the execution of eSports competitions (e.g., GSL), events (e.g., G-Star), and offline / online community events.
• Provide industry and local insights as input to the global eSports / community strategies.
• Lead relationships and shape agenda with the Korean eSports (e.g., KESPA), and related organizations (e.g., broadcasting partners), and generate new relationships, as required.
• Continue building up the online / offline communities and support for Blizzard Entertainment Korea across franchises (Starcraft, Warcraft / World of Warcraft, and Diablo).
• Generate innovative ideas to build healthy eSports ecosystem and player community.
• Develop, and execute viral strategies on social networking services (e.g., FB, Twitter, Kakao Talk) to improve communications with professional video gamers, and attract and retain casual / hard-core video gamers.
• Provide strong thought leadership and mentorship to current eSports and community managers, and teams.
• Work collaboratively with the Korea management team, and functional eSports and community counterparts in the United States Headquarters to communicate updates and push for decisions.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strategic thinker and project leader with a strong business and execution background
• Native level Korean, and strong written and oral communications skills in English
• Posses excellent interpersonal and diplomatic skills, while maintaining an ability to always stay focused on the work at hand
• Able to confidently communicate Blizzard Entertainment products, with both eSports partners and community influencers
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of online video games, and industry
• Passionate video gamer, with a deep understanding of Blizzard Entertainment and RPG / MMORPG games
• Extremely detail-oriented, organized, and driven to consistently meet deadlines
• A minimum of 7 years working experience in video gaming, technology, consumer products / electronics, competition, and, or community-related fields
• Able to organize thoughts, and make decisions under time constraints and a full work load
• Experience in managing a team(s), including providing direction, mentorship, and coaching
• Strong team player, able to balance various stakeholder needs and views into effective strategy, and work with other teams to support each other’s plans and objectives

Pluses

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing / business, or related field, with graduate school (e.g., MBA)
• Experience at a social networking services provider, and / or planned, and executed social networking services strategies (e.g., FB, Twitter)
• Have been actively involved in sports, and / or other competitions (e.g., tournaments)