Events Manager - London, Canada - Digital Extremes

Digital Extremes

Verified Company

London, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

ABOUT THIS POSITION
The Events Manager is responsible for setting Digital Extremes' (DE) event strategy, executing events, and facilitating long-term event planning.

You will find creative ways to integrate events into DE's marketing strategy and exemplify DE game brands through your event leadership.

Your exceptional organizational skills help make our events the talk of the town.

You are a team player who is capable of handling last minute changes and is ready to tackle the unexpected.

We have one of the most passionate player communities in the industry and a pillar of our success has been to focus on forging meaningful, personal relationships among our players, developers and gamers everywhere - your efforts across events are some of the important tools we will use to achieve that vision.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Collaborate with the Product Marketing Team and Community/LiveOps Producer to conceive, plan and execute events for our players
Build strong relationships with event organizers at key industry events as well as with gamingrelated thirdparties to maximize potential event opportunities and sponsorships
Manage all elements of DE event experiences, including researching and securing locations, room setup, audio/visual needs, food and beverage, etc.
Collaborate with the team to forecast budgets and event expectations based on estimated event attendees and cultural trends
Coordinates logistics, including registration and attendee tracking, presentation and materials support and pre

- and post-event evaluations

Build out a calendar and brand portfolio for events
Analyze and produce event postmortem reports for internal key stakeholders with recommendations and keylearnings for improvements from year to year
Work with multiple departments to create high quality, consistent branding materials for events
Provide onsite support at events, including setup and teardown, troubleshooting, and if needed, event documentation through photo and video
Participate in required staff calls, meetings, and travel as needed
Source and manage the creation of event promotional items
Proactively research future projects, events, vendors, quality samples, and build prototypes
Maintain and build relationships with vendors and fulfillment companies
Operate effectively as an event expert, mentor, guide, coach and provide feedback
Gain the confidence, trust and respect from other teams through effective communication, constructive feedback and fair and objective treatment of the team
Build a respectful, objective, encouraging atmosphere for ideas and creativity

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business Management, Retail Management or related field required
5+ years experience in small and largescale event planning and strong understanding of required lead times
Outstanding project management skills
Must have the ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously in a fastpaced, deadlinedriven environment
Proactive, humble, driven, selfdirected and project execution master; never content with status quo; always eager to get the job done and done in an exemplary way; works through admitted mistakes to continually improve
Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
Quantitative, analytical and problem solving skills
Must be very comfortable with data analysis and creation of meaningful KPIs reporting
Ability to leverage metrics and stats to make wellinformed decisions, and reinforce marketing instincts with meticulous analysis and research; ability to use data to build business cases with a focus on KPIs
Positive "cando" and team spirited attitude with the ability to work independently
Flexibility to work some early morning, evenings, and/or weekend events as needed
Demonstrable passion for video games and game culture
Proficiency with MS Office Suite & Google Workspace
Able to travel up to 25% of annual work year domestically and international to manage events

ABOUT DIGITAL EXTREMES

Founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, Digital Extremes ranks as one of the world's top independent video game development studios.

Originating with the co-creation of Epic Games' multi-million unit selling Unreal franchise including Unreal and Unreal Tournament, Digital Extremes went on to develop Dark Sector, BioShock for the PlayStation3, the BioShock 2 multiplayer campaign, and The Darkness II.

The studio has reached its greatest critical and commercial success with the free-to-play action game, Warframe, boasting a global community of 50 million registered players on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.

WHY WORK AT DIGITAL EXTREMES

Our culture is centered on providing great opportunities to our employees so that everyone feels they are making a meaningful impact.

Developing new and existing talent is our long-term focus. We are honored that our work environment has been consistently recognized as one of "Cana