Senior Manager, Community Relations; CORE GAMES

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2K is looking for a Sr. Manager, Digital Community Relations to guide a team of community experts in driving the community management vision, strategy, and execution across our portfolio of 2K Core Games projects, including Borderlands, Mafia, Civilization, and additional properties as needed. In this position, you are the voice of the community, and will work closely with your direct reports, along with Studio Partners and 2K Global Marketing teams, serving as the player advocate to help define and drive community building and engagement, social ideation and strategy, and Influencer Engagement and Growth plans for our passionate players.
Reporting to the Sr. Director, Digital Community Marketing, the ideal candidate will be a gaming enthusiast with a passion for the 2K Core Games portfolio of franchises and have expert knowledge of gaming genres ranging from narrative action, strategy, and looter-shooter, as well as possess a deep drive for activating and growing communities in innovative and impactful ways.

• Partner across the Core Games franchise groups (Global Brand Marketing, Social, Influencer, Communications, Product) and our Studio partners, to champion the needs and wants of our players and help improve our game experiences.
• Create a feedback loop for title communities and brainstorm ways to cross-leverage and promote our players and their needs to the 2K Marketing teams and Studio stakeholders.
• Assist the marketing, social, and communication teams with coordination and execution of various marketing requests of the development team.

• Collaborate with cross-functional publishing partners (Global Brand Marketing, Communications, Product Development, Partnerships & Licensing, Legal, and the Studio) in defining and authoring the community growth strategies for our beloved communities across the studio portfolio and the platforms where our experiences are featured.
• Develop and execute against key Social, Community and Influencer programs that celebrate and promote our passionate fan base for the advocates that they are, stoking the core and incentivizing new fans to join and grow our communities.
• Identify key creator opportunities that can both engage and grow our communities in the most creative and positive ways possible.
• Ladder up all community activations in support of the master Global Marketing Strategies for our titles.
• Define and Report on key Campaign community engagement and growth performance metrics, providing regular performance analysis and reporting on player…