Director, Brand Marketing

San Diego, CA (Remote)

$130K/yr – $160K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead the product marketing function for Daybreak's game portfolio, shaping brand, GTM plans, and partner activations to drive growth.

  • Own end-to-end brand strategy, creative assets, and go-to-market plans across Daybreak's games.
  • Must-have: 8+ years managing brand marketing with P&L ownership and direct reports.
  • Standout: Cross-functional leadership with partnerships, budget stewardship, and creative excellence across IP.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Product Marketing Leadership: Oversee marketing team and all product marketing efforts including branding, advertising / paid media, social media, and influencer marketing for Daybreak's portfolio of games. Review and approve all go-to-market plans to ensure the alignment marketing strategies with new product launches, content updates, and promotions.
  • Brand Development: Create and implement brand strategies from concept to execution, including brand identity, target audience identification, competitive market analysis, and product positioning. Lead team to ensure consumer messaging, creative positioning, and segmentation are consistently on brand across entire game portfolio.
  • Performance Measurement / P&L Responsibility: Measure, analyze, and optimize marketing activities using advanced marketing tools and processes; evaluate and report on the financial impact of marketing campaigns. Evaluate all campaigns to ensure execution meets strategic and financial objectives. Serve as department budget owner; tracking and maintaining total spend to P&L.
  • Creative Asset Management: Oversee and direct both internal and external creative teams in developing brand marketing assets, such as key art, trailers, logos, metadata, and other marketing collateral.
  • Strategic Collaboration & Partner Relationships: Leader in fostering strong relationships with First Party and other partners to create new opportunities for marketing activations, promotions, and impact. Work collaboratively with studio direct reports, leadership, executive producers, and internal / external teams to establish and achieve marketing and business goals.
  • Innovation and Best Practices: Drive innovation and strategic vision. Apply best practices and inspire team to seek and apply creative thinking from both within and outside the gaming industry to promote products effectively.
  • Team Development: Oversee the development and mentorship of brand marketing team which includes brand marketing managers, associate brand marketing managers and marketing coordinators.
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Daybreak Game Company LLC

2.9 Glassdoor

Daybreak Games is a leading global publisher and developer of multiplayer online games best known for its blockbuster hits and franchises, including the original standalone battle royale game, H1Z1®, EverQuest®, EverQuest®II, PlanetSide®2 and DC UniverseTM Online. Daybreak also publishes The Lord of the Rings OnlineTM and Dungeons & Dragons Online® for Standing Stone Games. Daybreak Games is privately owned by Enad Global 7 AB (publ). The company’s executive team serves under the leadership of our CEO, Ji Ham. Daybreak is headquartered in San Diego, CA and has development studios in Austin, TX and Boston, MA.Check out our opportunities here: https://www.daybreakgames.com/careers

Founded in 2015
San Diego, California, USA
169 employees (52 in marketing)
46% recommend to a friend
18% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
603K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52%
Direct
37.9%
Referral
8.4%
Social
1.3%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~169

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (10% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
4.2 years

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