SENIOR MARKETING MANAGER
Tesseract Esports is seeking an analytical, creative and highly motivated senior marketing professional to join our team. As a successful hire for this high impact role, you should be a self-starter with a passion for independent thinking, creative problem solving, have proven data analysis skills, show strong ownership and commitment, have proven leadership experience and bring relevant insights into growth marketing.
As a Senior Marketing Manager, you will lead the development and execution (end to end) of all marketing, social media, PR and brand activities across all owned channels and projects. You will lead a team of marketing professionals and will be responsible for achieving organization marketing objectives and project-wise KPIs. You will drive our marketing campaigns, content production, PR, Branding, events and community building efforts across all our internal and external projects. You accept the unknown and you’re able to come up with ground breaking initiatives that will drive us forward and make us stand out as an industry leader.
About Tesseract Esports
Tesseract Esports was founded in 2015 with an intent to elevate and transform the nascent gaming scene in South and Southeast Asia into a high profile and professional esport. We played a pioneering role by being the first to launch and introduce mobile esports in the region. We were also among the first to produce the biggest and most successful esports events and gaming activations in India at an unprecedented scale, paving the way for the growth of esports in the country.
We have since gone to partner with game publishers, developers, brands and media platforms to produce large scale esports events and engagements and become one of the leading esports production houses in the Asia-Pacific. We have worked with Qualcomm, MPL, Tencent Games, Razer, Garena, Acer and several other partners on many successful live and online esports activations. We are a growing team of highly skilled and passionate individuals focused on delivering the best competitive experiences. We are headquartered at our state of the art production studio in Hyderabad, India which also happens to be the largest esports facility in South Asia.
Responsibilities & Duties
- Define, develop and oversee the implementation of marketing strategy and brand strategy across different verticals.
- Lead the management, content creation and growth for all owned social media channels and accounts including those of our co-owned/shared/white-label projects/affiliate platforms and IPs in terms of followers, engagement and reach.
- Manage internal and external marketing budgets. Track, analyze and improve performance of marketing campaigns while being goal oriented (ROI & KPIs).
- Conduct market research and build strategy plans in order to grow all owned/co-owned/shared/white-label projects and channels and to better support management decision making.
- Identify and assess existing trends, opportunities, formats, audiences, storytelling platforms and determine when and how we will use them.
- Build partnerships and syndications with influencers, brands, partners across owned/co-owned/shared/white-label projects/affiliate platforms and IPs.
- Lead, manage and mentor a team of marketing professionals to drive and execute all marketing and related functions.
- Guide and work with internal creative resources and lead timely delivery of all creative requirements for all platforms.
- Develop accurate project priorities, schedules and execution of marketing campaigns for all owned channels and projects.
- Contribute to overall business and marketing strategy in order to help the organization achieve short and long term goals
Qualifications (Required)
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, communications, or related field. MBA / PGDM in marketing or equivalent.
- 6 + years experience in marketing with demonstrated history of running successful marketing campaigns and having a 360 vision of marketing plans.
- Experience in building growth stage marketing strategies with a focus on brand visibility, user engagement and viewership across multiple channels.
- Demonstrable experience in managing SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media, and display advertising campaigns.
- Hands on experience with digital marketing – Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Google Ads & AdWords.
- Exceptional storytelling skills with strong aptitude for developing engaging narratives around content and media for different audiences.
- Good knowledge of PR, affiliate marketing, media buying & licensing and experience in content writing and/or management.
- In depth understanding of how to interpret (and improve) advertising metrics (ex. CPM, CPC, CTR, CPV quality score, etc.)
- A strategic thinker with the ability to conceptualize broadly across various solutions, yet enjoys operating at a hands-on level.
- Proven leadership skills with experience in leading and managing a team. Excellent project management skills to ensure effective and transparent collaboration with team members and other departments.
- Strong team player, behaves like an owner and ultimately focused on delivering results with high standards. Set out the overall high performing team culture for the marketing team.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills. Ability to articulate a vision, strategy or idea clearly with a strong capacity of syntax, learning and sharing with senior leadership.
- Strong influencing skills and ability to communicate effectively with different internal departments, teams and clients.
Qualifications (Preferred)
- Strong passion for gaming and esports.
- Regional experience working across different countries/markets across South Asia, Southeast Asia and The Middle-East. Also preferred is market sensitivity, cultural curiosity and understanding differences in localization etc.
- Experience working in the esports or gaming industry.
- B2B/B2C marketing experience in sports, gaming, esports or information technology/ SaaS space.
- Past experience in scaling a service/product in the e-commerce space.
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What You Will Do -
- Develop understanding of the client's business and the digital marketing needs and provide
strategic guidance on the key digital marketing initiatives
- Collaborate with the cross-channel teams to implement and deliver client commitments
- Formulate account strategies and do engaging presentations and run business reviews (weekly, monthly, quarterly) with multiple levels of stakeholders internally and externally. Setting expectations both internally and externally.
- Tracking regular key performance metrics. Proactive risk management on the client accounts
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- Collaborate with Sales leaders to develop an optimal lead contact and conversion strategy for the sales team, with alignment on sales contact strategy
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience: -
- Bachelor's or master's degree in a quantitative/marketing discipline with 3+ years of relevant experience
- Proficiency with digital marketing platforms and technologies - Adwords, Facebook, Linkedin & affiliates
- Prior experience in digital marketing execution will be plus
- Excellent communication skills, negotiation skills and presentation skills
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and execution skills
Responsibilities
1. Develop detailed knowledge and understanding of business strategy,
objectives, and goals.
2. Work closely with cross-functional teams such as marketing, product, sales, and customer success to execute campaigns.
3. Lead all digital marketing efforts (paid, social & organic). The role entails 3 broad functions:
. Performance Marketing
1. SEO
2. Email marketing
4. Performance Marketing:
0. Establish, implement and measure the effectiveness across SEM/ UAC /Social, etc to drive awareness and adoption for the app and website. Manage the strategy and setup of all paid campaigns.
1. Optimize ads to achieve the lowest cost per lead on the website and
app, without compromising user quality. Closely monitor & optimize
CAC & ROAS.
2. Analyze traffic data, flows, funnels on a detailed city and category level
to identify potential leakages and opportunities to grow.
3. Stay abreast of new tools, trends, and best practices in digital
advertising; test and evaluate their efficacy.
4. Lead efforts to utilize a data and experiments-driven methodology to
improve performance marketing effectiveness.
o Innovate and implement test-and-learn strategies and drive scalable
results.
5. SEO
0. Manage both on-page SEO and off-page SEO for the company.
1. Manage and improve organic search engine performance and goal setting based on click through rates ,traffic ,and conversions.
2. Identify keyword gap for SEO improvement and map new content to be
produced for our blog, YT channel and Pinterest and optimize the same
for SEO.
6. Email marketing:
0. Optimize our marketing automation and lead nurturing processes
through email, content, and social channels.
1. Measure results and optimize the lead nurturing workflow for these
segments to convert leads into customers.
2. Implement Retention & Reactivation based campaigns to improve
lower funnel conversions.
Candidate Requirements
1. A high degree of ownership in taking things to completion. Can thrive in an
unstructured environment.
2. Exceptional communication skills. Enthusiasm to write things down for
posterity, build playbooks, and create training manuals. Loves one pagers.
3. The ability to collaborate effectively across teams such as growth, marketing &
design.
4. Knowledge of UAC, Search and Social advertising preferably for consumer
apps. Experience in a performance marketing role across a range of channels;
search, social, affiliate, display, video.
5. Strong experience in website analytics tools highly proficient with google
analytics, tag manager, search console. Knowledge of using data tools such as
marketing automation CRMs like Cleve tap, attribution reporting, and paid
campaign reports.
6. Strong knowledge of performance optimization and have a strong
quantitative analysis. An understanding of cohorts, segmentation of user base,
calculations of ROl and funnels is a must.
7. Worked at a fast growing start up for at least 3+ years
8. Past experience in B2C traffic generation, managing digital/mobile advertising.
9. Be able to bridge data analysis, research, competitive intelligence to build
efficient and scalable customer acquisition programs.
10. Able to effectively organize, prioritize & manage their time
11. Experience with automations & SQL is a big plus
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Qualification & Experience
Prior Digital Marketing Experience of 4-6 years.
Prior experience with start-ups in Ecommerce/DTC space or agencies that have managed brands in DTC is preferred.
Key Deliverables of the Role
Manage all paid search campaigns on Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, as well as other search and display marketing engines.
Execute on monthly and quarterly plans to grow user base and manage marketing budgets on Search engines, social media, and
other digital channels.
Optimizing channels and campaigns for cost and performance managing both the cost of traffic and cost of acquisition-
including responsibility for landing page, funnel optimization (working with revenue and product teams) to improve relevance
and improve conversion rates.
Responsible for the creation, set-up, and execution and optimization of various ads and campaigns.
Implementing campaigns using a structure and strategy that best suits business and goal.
Performing keyword research and writing ad copy
Analyzing performance data and optimizing campaigns to ensure they are continuously bringing quality traffic to our websites
while maintaining a strong ROI for every stakeholder's marketing budget.
Communicate with the stakeholders on a regular basis to report on campaigns and overall health and provide recommendations
to enhance performance
Implementing Paid Search industry best practices, new trends and technologies, and platform updates (e.g. AdWords, FB,
LinkedIn etc.)
Traffic ad campaigns and builds on ad serving platforms.
Conduct A/B tests in ads to understand contributing factors that drive the business forward.
Monitor and analyze advertising trends, and make optimizations recommendations.
Knowledge, Skills & Competencies
Ability to handle large media spending while catering to different internal business customers.
Minimum 5 years of experience working directly for an advertiser, agency, ad tech or social media platform.
Minimum 5 years of experience managing digital media including Facebook, Google, LinkedIn etc.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; effectively communicate with internal stakeholders at all levels of the
organization, vendors, and team members.
Google Analytics- Understand, engage and lead marketing activities to reach overall short, medium and long-term organizational targets.
- Plan and execute digital promotions and analyse performance indices of digital ads to provide actionable insights and improve efficiency
- Plan and execute outbound communications and analyse performance indices of touchpoints such as promotional mailers, push notifications, SMSes etc. to provide actionable insights and improve the impact
- Measure, analyse, monitor and optimize the efficiency of all marketing touchpoints across various channels
- Strategize, execute, monitor and optimize promotions to improve brand marketing health metrics such as retention, purchase frequency, cart value etc.
- Plan and execute new marketing initiatives to increase traffic, engagement and sales on existing marketing channels and partner platforms
- Research, identify and explore new marketing avenues relevant to the brand’s overall marketing directives to diversify the marketing portfolio and improve efficiency
- Analyse data and trends to accurately forecast supply and demand across various properties in segments relevant to the brand
- Manage marketing projects end-to-end from inception to completion and reporting to achieve sales targets and other mandates associated with respective projects
- Co-ordinate with all internal stakeholders and external agencies to achieve the above
- At least 4 years of marketing experience with exposure to digital marketing, PPC campaigns, database communication, social media and influencer marketing, ATL, BTL etc.
- At least 3 years of experience in leading end-to-end marketing across key accounts with an annual media budget of no less than 1CR
- Proficient in the use of analytical tools such as Google Analytics, Clevertap, Hotjar etc.
- Proficient in the use of native ad dashboards such as Facebook, Google Adwords etc.
- Has a thorough understanding of common social media algorithms and content delivery
- Has a thorough understanding of BI and research tools commonly used for marketing purposes
- Excellent with numbers, formulas
- Deep knowledge of website development, Facebook marketing, Mail Chimp, Hub Spot, Google Ad words and SEO
- Run PPC campaign and management (other paid campaigns)
- Social Media Strategy
- Promote content online
- Keep an eye on current updates in social media and work accordingly
- Co-ordinate with the US team
- Design Magazine(Vibe and Pac Buzz)
- Portals management
- Write Relevant blogs
- Online Database storage & Management
- Online Reputation Management
- Campaigns on Nearbuy & similar portals
- Coordination with Relevant online portals for banner work
- Coordination with the USA office for research on their localized requirements
- Post-execution performance analysis of the campaign
Job Description
The Social Media & Digital Marketing Intern is responsible for assisting the Digital Marketing Manager in implementing Tessacts overall communications and marketing plan -- focusing specifically on digital communications -- to build awareness about Tessact within the community, and increase its visibility on social media platforms (mainly linkedIn)
Responsibilities
- Community management: designing social media campaigns, creating social media contents, answering to customer’s comments or questions (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram…).
- Managing the company’s official website.
- Writing contents for the company’s blog or website.
- Creating contents for mail diffusion (newsletter…) or online diffusion.
- Follow-up and improvement of SEO.
- Helping the marketing team to follow-up and improve the digital marketing strategy
Skills And Qualifications
- Ability to take initiative, employ good judgment, and manage projects from beginning to end
- Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills
- Exceptional ability to manage details
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to meet deadlines and to anticipate next steps or needs
- Work effectively both independently and as part of a team
- Be available for at least 20 hours a week
- A bachelor’s degree (or currently enrolled student) in the liberal arts or equivalent work experience
- Understands and can utilize emerging platforms, digital media, and web/social media management and measurement tools (e.g. HootSuite, Google Analytics)
- Adobe Creative Suite experience a plus
- Strong working knowledge of email marketing applications (e.g. Constant Contact)
Benefits
We’re looking for people to join our cause – to simplify the visual web with really smart but simple visual tools. A technology startup founded by IITians and backed by some of the most reputable media companies as customers, we offer a rare opportunity to join a thriving, fast-paced, multi-cultural environment and be part of a truly exciting journey. You will be at the forefront of innovation, joining the only Artificial Intelligence startup in India that has successfully deployed several CV/ML solutions for several large media companies and now focusing on solving problems of the global market.
About Tessact:
Tessact is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data analytics startup, founded by IIT Bombay alumni, that helps in transforming businesses using powerful video recognition technologies built on most advanced machine learning systems. The company redefines the way contextual insights are to be used for media production, digital advertising, consumer experience creation and news analytics
Job Responsibilities...
- Training students in Digital Marketing.
- Assist in marketing and advertising promotional activities (e.g. social media, direct mail and web) .
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