Principal Marketing Manager, Marathon (Contract)

USA (Remote)

$156K/yr – $185K/yrSenior Level7+ years expContract

Posted 7 days ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the development of integrated global GTM strategies for major Marathon releases, seasons, and franchise moments, ensuring plans support franchise priorities, player needs, and business goals.
  • Translate franchise strategy, product roadmaps, audience priorities, and business objectives into clear marketing strategies, launch architectures, milestones, and investment recommendations.
  • Develop audience-led plans spanning acquisition, reactivation, retention, engagement, and long-term player value across paid, owned, earned, community, platform, and regional channels.
  • Establish and lead the cross-functional GTM operating rhythm, including planning milestones, readiness reviews, decision points, dependency management, risk tracking, and post-launch learning.
  • Align senior stakeholders and executional partners around priorities, roles, tradeoffs, and success measures, ensuring critical information and decisions are communicated clearly and consistently.
  • Identify GTM risks and opportunities early, develop actionable recommendations, and drive timely resolution across Publishing, Development, and regional teams.
  • Partner with Brand and Creative teams to translate Marathon’s positioning and creative strategy into consistent, audience-relevant campaigns and player experiences across channels and markets.
  • Partner with regional marketing teams to adapt global strategies for North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM while maintaining a cohesive franchise approach.
  • Partner with Analytics, Insights, Product Management, and Finance to establish audience targets, performance benchmarks, measurement plans, and budget-efficiency goals.
  • Define, monitor, and report against franchise and campaign KPIs, including awareness, consideration, acquisition, conversion, reactivation, retention, engagement, revenue, and ROI.

Requirements

  • 7+ Years experience leading integrated marketing, product marketing, or GTM strategy within gaming, technology, entertainment, or another complex consumer business; experience operating at a global scale is strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional launches or live-service marketing programs with meaningful audience and business impact.
  • Deep familiarity with game franchises and online player communities, ideally within first-person shooters, extraction shooters, or live-service games.
  • Strong understanding of the full marketing mix, including brand, product marketing, community, communications, creative, partnerships, lifecycle marketing, organic channels, paid media, and player acquisition.
  • Ability to translate product strategy, audience insight, and business goals into clear GTM choices, integrated plans, and investment recommendations.
  • Proven ability to influence senior leaders, align teams without direct authority, and resolve competing priorities across complex organizations.
  • Strong analytical and commercial judgment, with experience defining success measures and using performance data, research, and player insight to improve strategy and execution.
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with the ability to make complex topics clear, compelling, and actionable for executive and cross-functional audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to create clarity across multiple complex workstreams, establish priorities and decision points, and drive stakeholders toward timely resolution.
  • Sound judgment and adaptability when navigating changing product plans, emerging player sentiment, competitive disruption, or other high-pressure business challenges.

Preferred

  • Deep familiarity with Marathon, its evolving player community, and the broader competitive landscape.
  • Expertise marketing live-service games across launch, seasonal, reactivation, and long-term lifecycle moments.
  • Experience developing global strategies that can be effectively adapted for regional markets.
  • Experience managing major media investments, external agencies, and first-party platform partnerships.

Benefits

  • In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment, the company behind PlayStation, pushes the boundaries of entertainment and innovation, starting from the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. Today, we continue to deliver innovative and thrilling experiences to a global audience through our PlayStation line of products and services that include generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with global functions in California, London, and Tokyo, and game development studios around the world as part of PlayStation Studios, we believe that the power of play is borderless. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.For more information about our company, please visit SonyInteractive.com. For more information about PlayStation products, please visit PlayStation.com.Want to take your career to the next level? Search open job vacancies at any of the Sony Interactive sites by visiting careers.playstation.com

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