Marketing Manager

Southampton, City of Southampton, UK (Remote)

£40K/yr – £45K/yrMid Level

Posted 2 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end marketing campaigns for Kinetic Games and Publishing, coordinating cross-functional teams and external partners to drive launches, updates, and live service content.

  • Lead multi-title campaigns across platforms and channels
  • Coordinate timelines, budgets, and deliverables
  • Collaborate with development, social, creative, and partnerships teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Planning, executing and managing integrated marketing campaigns across Kinetic Games and Kinetic Publishing titles.
  • Supporting go-to-market strategies for game announcements, launches, updates and live service content.
  • Working closely with developers to understand upcoming content and translate it into compelling marketing campaigns.
  • Collaborating with Social Media, Community, Creative, Player Experience and Partnerships teams to ensure campaigns are aligned across all channels.
  • Managing campaign timelines, long-term marketing calendars and project deliverables across multiple titles.
  • Briefing, coordinating and managing external agencies and freelancers to deliver high-quality creative assets and campaign support.
  • Working with platform partners and publishers to coordinate marketing opportunities and promotional activity where appropriate.
  • Supporting the creation of marketing assets including trailers, key art, store assets, emails, presentations and promotional materials.
  • Monitoring campaign performance, reporting on results and using insights to optimise future activity.
  • Helping manage marketing budgets, timelines and priorities across multiple projects.

Requirements

  • Experience in a marketing role, ideally within the games industry or wider entertainment sector.
  • Experience planning and delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns from concept to execution.
  • Strong project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, both written and verbal.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with creative teams, developers and external partners.
  • A strong understanding of digital marketing channels, including social media, content marketing, influencer marketing, email marketing and platform merchandising.
  • Comfortable analysing campaign performance and turning data into actionable insights.
  • Proactive, collaborative and able to work independently when required.
  • A genuine passion for video games, understanding of the games industry and current trends.

Preferred

  • A degree or post-graduate qualification in Marketing, Communications or a related field.
  • Experience launching or marketing PC and console games.
  • Experience supporting live service games and ongoing content marketing.
  • Knowledge of Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and Epic Games Store marketing opportunities.
  • Experience briefing and managing external agencies or suppliers.
  • Experience with influencer and creator marketing campaigns.
  • Familiarity with marketing analytics tools such as Google Analytics, Looker Studio or similar reporting platforms.
  • Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Monday.com, Asana or Trello.
  • Familiarity with industry events such as Gamescom, SGF, etc.
  • Experience managing marketing budgets.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Reward Package
  • Enhanced Employer Match Pension Scheme
  • Annual Bonus
  • Weekly Free Team Lunches
  • Regular Social Events
  • Hybrid & Flextime Working
  • Access to Southampton Football Club Tickets - subject to availability and sponsor allocation
  • Relocation Package (within the UK only)
  • Electric Vehicle Car Scheme
  • Employee of the Month Vouchers
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Kinetic Games

LUV Infinity Group is an exciting UK based umbrella company for a multitude of brands, ranging from nightclubs, bars to restaurants all over the United KingdomLUV Infinity Group has a firm Impression on the UK Nightlife and hospitality industry with our venues bringing thousands of smiles to customers faces every day since 2009; and we only continue to expand and grow today.We pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box, being innovative within our ideas & providing the best quality product across each and every diverse brand that we have created.Focusing at the heart of our business, our people; we believe a successful business begins with the people who operate it & we continually reinvent the wheel when it comes to what makes us good employers – this is what drives us.

Founded in 2009
Bristol, England, GBR
31 employees (4 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
425M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$18.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.5%
Direct
31.4%
Referral
5.8%
Social
4%
Paid
5.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~31

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (10% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
670