Live Events Marketing Manager, Niantic

Pokémon GO, Short Term

Salary not provided

$52.00/hr - $72.00/hr

GSuite
Asana
Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

Willingness to travel

2+ days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)

Niantic

Augmented reality software development

Be an early applicant

Niantic

Augmented reality software development

501-1000 employees

B2CGamingAugmented RealitySaaS

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

$52.00/hr - $72.00/hr

GSuite
Asana
Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

Willingness to travel

2+ days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)

501-1000 employees

B2CGamingAugmented RealitySaaS

Company mission

Niantic's mission is to shape a future where technology enables novel robotics, computing, and entertainment experiences, focusing predominantly on augmented reality games.

Role

Who you are

  • The ideal candidate will have a passion for crafting and producing experiences that fans remember for a lifetime
  • As someone who will work under tight timelines with internal (Engineering, Product, Operations, and Legal) and external teams (agencies, vendors, and partners), the ideal candidate is an outstandingly organized collaborator who knows how to work alongside multiple partners to align on a common vision and execute perfectly
  • 3+ years experience producing live events and/or managing complex marketing projects
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or related field
  • Strong project management and organizational skills
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others

Desirable

  • Passion for Pokémon GO and the Pokémon franchise
  • Experience with project management tools such as Asana
  • Proficiency in G Suite

What the job involves

  • Niantic is looking for a Live Events Marketing Manager to support the marketing and execution of global events for Pokémon GO
  • These include major worldwide events such as Pokémon GO Tour and Pokémon GO Fest, and location specific events such as Pokémon GO City Safaris
  • Support the planning and execution of our live events marketing calendar
  • Collaborate with cross-functional internal teams to conceptualize and execute live events globally, ranging from 5,000 to 300,000 players
  • Collaborate with project leads to effectively manage key workstreams, including drafting copy, building decks, and updating key documents
  • Manage and support project management through tools such as Asana, workback schedules, and internal slide creation
  • Create and track against detailed workback schedules, ensuring key milestones are met on time
  • Coordinate logistics with various internal team members, partners, and vendors
  • Deliver post event reports with data-driven analysis including attendee feedback, goal attainment, and recommendations for future event improvements
  • Support the branded event asset creation process from design to approval to production
  • This is a contractor position and the work should be performed based on service agreement and SOW. Niantic will not offer Contractor direct employment contract, salary, benefits, equities, or any compensation associated with employment

Our take

Niantic, Inc. is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.

Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.

Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-14% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Nov 2021

$300m

SERIES D

Dec 2018

$245m

SERIES C

Total funding: $774.3m

Company benefits

  • Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance including 100% paid employee healthcare
  • 100% of premiums for long term and short term disability and life insurance
  • Mental healthcare on-demand by Spring Health
  • Increasing paid time off with tenure, separate sick time accrual, five flex days per year to attend Niantic community events or volunteer
  • Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Years
  • 16 weeks of parental leave for parents, parental leave transition assistance by Cleo, Carrot fertility benefit
  • 401k Match, equity options, compare and refinance loans with Credible’s online loan marketplace
  • Cold breakfast, hot lunch and snacks all day, every day
  • Cell-phone, gym, and internet reimbursements, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee discounts via Fond
  • Employee donation match of up to $500 per year
  • Wellness activities including yoga and meditation, volunteer off-sites, employee Resource Groups

Company values

  • Start with a worthy goal
  • Invite everyone on board
  • Lead from the front
  • Set waypoints, and then stay on course
  • Speak the truth, to serve the mission
  • See it through
  • Weather storms
  • Summit mountains

Company HQ

Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Having studied for an MBA at UCB, John worked as a Producer for 3DO before co-founding Big Network and Keyhole. He then spent over 11 years at Google as VP of Product, before leaving in October 2015 to found Niantic.

Prior to Niantic, Phil was acontributor to StreetView, GMail and Lively products while at Google. Additionally Phil was a GPU Architect at NVIDIA and a key contributor to the design and development several of their GPUS.

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