Description
Scopely Explore (formerly known as Niantic) is looking for a Live Events Marketing Manager to lead all aspects of the physical/experiential event production for location specific events for Pikmin Bloom.
Live events are at the core of Scopely Explore products and highlight our real-world social experience at its best.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for crafting and producing experiences that fans remember for a lifetime, and is an extraordinarily organized collaborator who knows how to lead multiple partners to align on a common vision and deliver reliably.
This role is expected to leverage AI tools and workflows to improve event planning, venue research, logistics coordination, vendor management, and post-event analysis.
What you'll do
- Develop detailed plans and implement live events for Pikmin Bloom.
- Work closely with Marketing leads to develop ideas for live events that align with marketing objectives.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conceptualize and deliver exciting experiential concepts that will make a lasting positive impact on our communities, align to marketing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), marketing campaigns, and business objectives.
- Use AI tools to support venue research, event planning, workback schedules, risk tracking, vendor comparisons, and post-event reporting workflows.
- Lead live event contract negotiations and support with tactical execution of agreements.
- Liaise with license holders for reviews, procure approvals, and provide updates.
- Create and track against detailed workback schedules, ensuring key milestones are met on time.
- Manage storage and fulfillment of live event set pieces, signage, premium items, and hardware.
- Maintain relationships between agencies, vendors, and partners to ensure physical set pieces are produced at high quality on time and within budget.
- Oversee the branded event asset creation process from design to approval to production.
- Lead efforts to create live event exclusive merchandise with IP partners and balance P&L to maximize profits.
- Deliver post event reports with data-driven analysis including attendee feedback, goal attainment, and recommendations for future event improvements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders to cultivate strong working relationships with project team members, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
- Required in-office 3 days on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
What you'll need
- Proven ability to produce live event programs, both small and large consumer-facing events in the tech or gaming space.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication in Japanese and English.
- Passion for building communities and connecting people in meaningful ways.
- Hands-on experience using AI tools to improve event planning, production workflows, logistics management, reporting, or vendor coordination.
- Willingness to travel and work an aggressive schedule to support the international live events team structure.
- 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 closely with vendors to oversee the development of high quality physical event assets.
- Experience with cross-functional teams with the ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others.
Plus if you have...
- Passion for Scopely Explore products (Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, Monster Hunter Now).
- Experience working within strict brand and legal guidelines.
- Experience building, managing, and/or supporting grassroots live event programs.
- Experience building repeatable AI-assisted templates, trackers, reporting workflows, or lightweight internal tools for event production.
- Experience with project management tools such as Asana.
- Proficiency in G Suite a plus.
- Proficiency in Chinese
About Scopely
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/.
Notice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official website and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @scopely.com.
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Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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