Associate Brand Manager, ATLUS Transmedia

Burbank, CA (Hybrid)

$78K/yr – $97K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own Western brand storytelling and cross-functional activation for a global IP, coordinating licensing, game marketing, and consumer campaigns to hit regional goals.

  • Brand Ownership: Drive strategy development and lifecycle planning for Americas and Europe, coordinating with Legal, CRM, Creative, Web, PR, and Community to keep workbacks on track.
  • Campaign Execution: Lead creative strategy, asset production, digital content, promotions, and licensing partnerships to maximize global campaign impact.
  • Cross-Functional Stewardship: Align marketing, licensing, and partner activities with project goals and funding, reporting progress to brand, product marketing, and licensing teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the development of brand marketing strategies across ATLUS IP, supporting lifecycle planning and execution with a focus on Western markets (Americas & EMEA).
  • Support budget management and ensure business plan goals are achieved while maximizing global campaign effectiveness.
  • Partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure marketing, licensing, game and partner marketing executions are integrated and aligned with the project’s strategic goals.
  • Drive marketing campaigns including creative development and strategy, asset production, digital content, channel, promotions, and licensing partnership opportunities.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for Brand marketing execution to support the overall brand, coordinating across various stakeholders and ensuring workback schedules and deadlines are aligned and met.
  • Act as a liaison between Brand Marketing and key internal functions including Legal, Creative Services, CRM, Web, PR, and Community.
  • Support marketing-focused licensing partnerships, including managing internal and partner communications.
  • Support operational aspects of brand marketing including all marketing approvals, legal contract coordination, and invoice processing.
  • Manage brand marketing resources, including promotional merchandise that can be used for giveaways, to support marketing campaign needs.
  • Provide regular updates to brand marketing, product marketing, and licensing teams across all regions.

Requirements

  • Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision, collaboration, and teamwork. In-office attendance is required for the following reasons:
  • To foster communication and collaboration among team members, which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas, quick access to team members to enable collaborative problem-solving, and stronger cohesion among co-workers and within teams.
  • To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.
  • To enhance understanding of our stakeholders’ work and business needs, facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow, and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in the field.
  • 3-5+ years of experience in brand marketing. Experience in game publisher marketing, licensing, marketing agencies and/or consumer products is a plus.
  • Proven track record of producing highly creative and imaginative campaigns for major global brands, showing strong results and achieving business goals.
  • Experience working on global marketing campaigns for products that have large consumer audiences across multiple entertainment channels (e.g., film/TV, games, publishing).
  • Knowledge of the ATLUS IPs and brand along with the games/entertainment industries strongly preferred.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint and Excel), with the ability to develop global brand and marketing plans, create pitch and sales decks, and support campaign budgets with knowledge of P&L concepts
  • Ability to leverage quantitative analytic measures, build business cases, and translate findings to support initiatives tied to KPI / ROI metrics.
  • Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects with various teams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to leadership stakeholders.
  • Positive, proactive, and solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to work autonomously.

Preferred

  • Experience with A/V creative process including Key Art and trailer development.
  • Background in creative or media agencies is a plus.
  • Familiarity with digital and consumer marketing channels including performance marketing, social media, and influencer marketing.
  • Bilingual proficiency in Japanese.
Sega of America, Inc. logo

Sega of America, Inc.

SEGA of America, Inc. a rapidly expanding video games publisher and developer within the western market, and is the US arm of SEGA Sammy, a world leader in the provision of interactive entertainment both inside and outside the home. SEGA develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms such as Xbox, PlayStation platforms, Nintendo platforms, PC and wireless devices.

Founded in 1960
Irvine, California, USA
475 employees (191 in marketing)