Manager, Experiential Marketing

Santa Monica, CA (Hybrid)

$87K/yr – $162K/yrManager5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own experiential activations from concept through on-site delivery with cross-functional ownership of events, budgets, and post-event reporting.

  • Event Production & Program Execution: lead planning, timelines, and cross-team collaboration.
  • On-site Leadership & Vendor Management: provide on-site support and manage agency/vendor communications.
  • Budget, Contracts, and Recap: oversee vendor contracts, budget tracking, and post-event reporting.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage experiential initiatives from concept through execution
  • Collaborate with cross functional partners on event concepting, programming, scheduling, production coordination, attendee relations, technical checks, and post-event reporting
  • Maintain project documentation, production timelines, and operational trackers to ensure efficient event execution
  • Confidently lead cross-functional meetings and create event status and recap decks
  • Manage planning and execution of internal programming including employee celebrations, employee engagement initiatives, and learning and development programming
  • Provide on-site leadership and executional support for priority events
  • Confidently manage day-to-day agency/vendor communication, as assigned
  • Manage the financial and legal lifecycle of experiential activations including vendor coordination, contracts, and budget tracking

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in event production, experiential marketing, or project management
  • Strong understanding of event production, marketing, and logistics
  • Track record of delivering complex projects requiring strong project management skills, ability to work across multiple teams, attention to detail, and accountability
  • Passion for gaming, cultural trends, and experiences/events
  • Proficient in influencing multiple stakeholders and building excellent working relationships
  • Able to travel, including international travel, and work long hours and weekends as needed
  • Strong analytical, verbal, written and presentation skills
  • Track record of managing high pressure situations and exuding confidence
  • Results oriented, collaborative problem-solver, and self-motivated
  • Well organized, detail oriented and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

Preferred

    Benefits

    • 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.
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    Activision Blizzard, Inc.

    Activision Blizzard, Inc. is one of the world’s largest interactive entertainment companies, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Skylanders®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy CrushTM, and Bubble WitchTM. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!We’re proud to be recognized as one of FORTUNE’s "100 Best Companies To Work For®” for four consecutive years and have earned a spot on FORTUNE’s “Most Admired Companies,” and “Future 50” lists. Our 10,000+ global employees are some of the best and brightest talents across entertainment, media, and technology.

    Founded in 2008
    Santa Monica, California, USA
    1.5K employees (293 in marketing)