Content Marketing Intern - 12 Month Placement - Gram Games

London, UK (Unknown)

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Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the trend-to-content funnel for live ops with a focus on turning culture signals into timely in-game events, assets and drops.

  • Trend Discovery: Identify digital culture, mobile gaming, and pop culture signals and convert them into event pitches.
  • Content Planning & Live Ops Support: Help plan seasonal calendars and keep live event cycles fresh and thematically varied.
  • Competitive & Market Insight: Track competitors to inform what timely trends and events to deploy next.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Identify and monitor emerging trends in digital culture, mobile gaming, lifestyle, pop culture, and social media
  • Translate trend research into pitches and briefs for new in-game events, assets, and themed content concepts
  • Collaborate with the Live Ops team to plan and refine seasonal content calendars
  • Assist with content audits to ensure thematic variety and freshness in the game's live event cycles
  • Participate in brainstorming sessions, contributing your own ideas for engaging and timely content drops
  • Research competitors and analyze how other games leverage trends and events

Requirements

  • Undergraduate student currently enrolled in a sandwich degree that supports a placement year
  • Studying Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Business or a related field
  • Excellent research skills, with the ability to synthesize information into actionable insights
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong curiosity about pop culture, digital media, social trends, and content marketing

Preferred

  • Familiarity with Merge Dragons! or similar titles
  • Passion for mobile games and familiarity with Merge Dragons! or similar titles.
  • Creative approach combined with a collaborative and proactive attitude

Benefits

  • A paid internship with a competitive salary.
  • Genuine production experience on a live, global mobile game.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-driven art workflows and industry-standard pipelines.
  • Direct guidance from our experienced Game Artists and Art Director.
  • The opportunity to build a strong portfolio featuring shipped LiveOps content.
  • An awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and a variety of treats (naughty and nice!).
  • Private medical and dental care, a healthcare cash plan and life insurance.
  • A favourable pension scheme to get you started.
  • High-end hardware to work on and consoles throughout the office to relax and play.
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Zynga was founded in 2007 with the vision that play would become one of the core activities on the Internet. We pioneered social games with the belief that if we could make games simple, accessible and social the world would start playing. We are excited that games have grown to become the second most popular activity by time spent, even surpassing email. But we have a lot of hard work, innovation and growth ahead of us to create a future where social gaming is a daily habit for everyone. Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. With a massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 5 billion times on mobile, including CSR RacingTM, Dragon CityTM, Empires & PuzzlesTM, FarmVilleTM, Golf RivalTM, Hair ChallengeTM, Harry Potter: Puzzles & SpellsTM, High Heels!TM, Merge Dragons!TM, Merge Magic!TM, Monster LegendsTM, Toon BlastTM, Top ElevenTM, Toy BlastTM, Two DotsTM, Words With FriendsTM and Zynga PokerTM.

Founded in 2007
San Francisco, California, USA
2.7K employees (888 in marketing)
93% recommend to a friend
91% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.5M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
19.6%
Direct
45.7%
Referral
10.6%
Social
23.4%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
155 (6% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$2.5B
Last Raise
$762M
Post IPO Equity, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2020
    Post IPO Equity • $762M
  • Jun 2019
    Post IPO Equity • $690M
  • Feb 2011
    Series C • $490M

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