Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Akkodis is seeking a Licensing & Marketing Coordinator for a contract role. The LMC will act as a key liaison with stakeholders to ensure license partners adhere to brand guidelines and assist in managing the funnel for new partners, including maintaining launch schedules and routing marketing assets for approval.
Responsibilities
- Support the business development efforts of the licensing team through the maintenance of toolkits and support materials, including but not limited to IP Presentations, sizzles, and pitch decks
- Support the launch and live operations of licensed games by routing and tracking brand/marketing assets for timely approvals, facilitating timely feedback land ensuring that iterative assets incorporate any comments
- Establish, maintain, and enhance relationships with internal and external groups, including production, marketing, and other key stakeholders, in order to facilitate the delivery of innovative, high-quality games. Collaborate with internal stakeholders for brand guidelines and asset acquisitions, and help coordinate overall brand approvals related to both production and marketing elements across video, digital, or other media
- Gather reference materials and assets from internal stakeholders and divisions at WBD
- Ingest and archive large sets of creative assets, maintain an up-to-date library including owning strict naming nomenclature for version control, and distribute assets as needed to internal and external partners to ensure sharing of information across multiple teams working on different slates of games, whether they be publishing or licensing
- Assist in the maintenance of workflow documentation and support cross-disciplinary collaboration
- Manages meeting cadence and agendas with franchise and other internal WBD teams to ensure coordination with cross-studio franchise initiatives
- Ability to pull down, install, and troubleshoot game builds when needed for executive presentations or demos
Skills
- Experience working with AAA entertainment brands (film/tv/comic/animation)
- Ability to apply brand guidelines to marketing assets and collateral materials
- Internal and External Stakeholder communication
- Analytical, problem-solving, and creative-thinking skills
- Organizational skills, project management skills, and attention to detail
- Ability to multitask, pivot, and change focus when necessary
- Demonstrated ability working internally or with partners to develop compelling creative assets
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to build productive and positive relationships with external partners, managers, peers, and others
- Must have the ability to exercise discretion and maintain strict confidentiality in handling sensitive information and materials
- Ability to travel, if necessary
- Experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Trello, Asana, or similar as well as secure file sharing technologies
- Creative proficiency with the Adobe suite of services and PowerPoint
- Fluency with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter/X
- Basic knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator
- BA/ BS required
- Experience in TV/film, entertainment, digital media, and/or video games strongly preferred
- Experience in cross-divisional, synergistic roles with multiple stakeholders is a plus
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan
- Paid leave, including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law
- Holiday pay where applicable
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