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VP of Online Telltale Games
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Fast-growing digital publisher of licensed interactive episodic content on all gaming platforms is looking for an individual to take P&L responsibility to accelerate revenue growth by optimizing the distribution strategy, enhancing the customers? experience, and exploring new partnerships and business models.Strategic:
Develop and execute strategies and plans and ensure that the online growth strategy aligns with the organization?s overall business strategy
Represent and enhance the end user experience in negotiations with management, development, and marketing
Research and evaluate market trends and emerging business models
Craft new initiatives and marketing partnerships to grow the business
Communicate strategy to all key stakeholders; serve as subject matter expert for online commerce across the enterprise
Operational:
Maximize the overall sales effectiveness of the Telltalegames.com website and online distribution network
Develop and execute Telltale?s online customer acquisition, conversion and retention marketing strategies
Create and execute on strategic efforts to grow traffic consistently month over month, including collaboration with the Product Development team to design new products or enhance existing products to improve traffic performance and encourage community
Implement the best practices for driving traffic through paid and organic search, banner adds, user generated content and viral means
Identify, develop and negotiate business relationships to grow revenue, audience, and traffic
Manage milestones, deadlines and scheduling for multiple simultaneous projects; ensure effective communication of all online initiatives
Analyze:
Define and evaluate critical metrics
Manage key drivers behind sales and gross profit margin, including: traffic, average order value and conversion
Leverage site analytics to monitor performance and guide action
Essential Skills
A strong understanding of web marketing strategies and community building
Experience with sophisticated web analytics reporting systems
Experience managing email campaigns
Experience in eCommerce and managing eCommerce sites
Excellent communication skills
Able to build, grow and expand the business
Analytical mindset with an understanding of statistical testing methodologies
Experience with campaign tracking and ROI-driven optimization
Self-starter, hands on, outgoing, personable, and proactive with an intense attention to detail
Proven ability to manage and motivate staff
Strong balance between business and creative sense
Essential Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years Internet e commerce experience
Minimum of 3 years direct management experience, preferably of creative/strategic alliances teams in a consumer internet, media, or entertainment company
Undergraduate degree. (MBA preferred)
| Location: | San Rafael, CA 94912 United States |
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Telltale Games
Telltale is the first and only digital publisher to release interactive episodic content on a monthly schedule. Their award-winning internal development studio is responsible for creating landmark episodic content, including Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale currently develops and publishes episodic series on PC, PlayStation3, Wii, and Xbox 360, with plans to expand to additional platforms and channels this year.Investors: Granite Ventures
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| Web Site: | www.telltalegames.com |
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| Headquarters: | San Rafael, CA 94912 United States |
| Employees: | 41-100 |
| 2004 | |
| Industry: | Media and Entertainment |
| Founded in 2004 by LucasArts veterans with decades of experience, Telltale has quickly become an industry leader, establishing the model for downloadable game seasons and releasing more than 30 games to date. Telltale's titles have won numerous awards including "Adventure Game of the Year" accolades from publications such as IGN, PC Gamer, GameSpy, and Adventure Gamers, and have been recognized by mainstream outlets ranging from USA Today, to The New York Times to Variety. The publisher's landmark Sam & Max series, based on the independent comics by Steve Purcell, paved the way for episodic gaming with two award-winning seasons available on PC, Wii, and Xbox LIVE Arcade. In 2008, Telltale launched the first episodic series available on WiiWare with Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, five adventures based on the Homestarrunner.com web cartoons. Ranked by USA Today as one of the top five downloadable games to watch in 2009, Telltale's Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures took episodic in a new direction with a series based on Aardman's globally popular franchise. Later that year, Telltale announced and launched Tales of Monkey Island, the highly-anticipated episodic return of Guybrush Threepwood in the series' first original story in nearly a decade. Key Milestones and Accomplishments Founded in 2004 Built a proprietary interactive storytelling technology Funded by top-tier investors Launched direct sales and distribution channel Secured agreements to create premium content based on established licenses (Wallace & Gromit; Monkey Island; Sam & Max; Homestarrunner.com; Bone; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) Partnered with leading distributors (Time Warner / Turner Entertainment (GameTap); Yahoo Games; Steam; IGN; Big Fish; JoWooD Group; Trymedia; Wild Tangent) Became official developer for Wii, Xbox 360 and PC |
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