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Product Marketing Manager, Live Events Pokémon GO

Scopely
  • 🇯🇵 Japan
  • On-site
  • Manager or above
  • 1 day ago
  • CRM
  • AI

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The Pokémon GO team is looking for a Product Marketing Manager, Live Events to lead product marketing for our global portfolio of real-world Pokémon GO experiences, from major tentpole events to scaled live event programs.

This role is expected to focus primarily on Live Events across APAC, including Japan, while also supporting Live Events initiatives at the global level. You will combine strategic thinking, creative marketing, cross-functional leadership, and an AI-forward mindset to shape how Pokémon GO live events are positioned, branded, and brought to market. You will translate product, player, and business priorities into compelling reasons for Trainers to participate both in-game and in the real world, while using advanced AI tools to accelerate insights, planning, creative exploration, and execution.

You will partner closely with Live Events Production, Game Design, Product Management, Creative, Community, Social, CRM, Communications/PR, Analytics, regional marketing teams, and other cross-functional partners to create and execute go-to-market plans for Pokémon GO live event experiences. You will also collaborate with key external partners to align on strategy, creative, communications, and approvals while maintaining the quality standards expected of Pokémon GO.

What You Will Do

  • Lead Live Events marketing strategy. Own the end-to-end product marketing strategy for assigned Pokémon GO live events, defining objectives, audiences, positioning, marketing approach, and go-to-market plans that support player and business goals.
  • Lead marketing within the Live Events team. Partner with Production, Game Design, Product Management, and other cross-functional leaders to help shape event concepts, drive alignment, and connect the in-game and real-world experience.
  • Develop event positioning, branding, and messaging. Translate event concepts, gameplay, player insights, and regional context into clear positioning, value propositions, campaign narratives, naming and messaging frameworks, and player-facing communications.
  • Lead integrated go-to-market planning. Build global marketing plans across web, social, CRM/direct marketing, community, PR, creators, platform partnerships, paid media, and regional channels, aligning teams around key milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and launch readiness.
  • Leverage advanced AI tools and workflows. Use leading AI capabilities to accelerate insight synthesis, strategic planning, campaign ideation, localization support, project workflows, quality control, and performance analysis. Build repeatable AI-enabled processes that improve speed and quality while applying strong judgment around accuracy, confidentiality, IP, brand standards, and human review.
  • Connect the real-world and in-game player experience. Partner closely with Production, Product Management, and Game Design to ensure marketing reflects the full event experience, communicates player value clearly, and creates cohesion across physical and digital touchpoints.
  • Lead creative development. Develop creative briefs and partner with internal creative teams, agencies, regional teams, and external partners to produce campaign concepts, key art, video, digital assets, event branding, and other player-facing materials.
  • Drive cross-functional marketing execution. Coordinate stakeholders across functions and regions, clarify ownership and timelines, identify risks and trade-offs, and keep complex event marketing work moving from concept through post-event learning.
  • Coordinate global and regional marketing. Create strategies that can scale across Pokémon GO live events while enabling regional teams to adapt plans based on local player behavior, cultural insights, market opportunities, and on-the-ground expertise. 
  • Partner with external stakeholders. Lead marketing alignment with key brand, licensing, and external partners on positioning, branding, creative, communications, approvals, and major franchise initiatives connected to live events.
  • Own marketing measurement and learning. Establish KPIs and success criteria upfront, partner with Analytics and cross-functional teams to evaluate performance, and turn event and campaign learnings into recommendations for future programs.
  • Prioritize marketing resources and investments. Help direct creative resources, agency support, channel investment, and marketing budgets toward the highest-impact player and business opportunities.
  • Champion the Trainer perspective. Develop a deep understanding of Pokémon GO players, live event attendees, community sentiment, and participation barriers, and bring those insights into event concepting, positioning, go-to-market planning, and marketing decisions.

What you will need

  • 5+ years of experience in product marketing, consumer marketing, integrated marketing, live events marketing, entertainment marketing, or related disciplines.
  • Experience developing and executing go-to-market strategies for consumer products, experiences, or live-service businesses, ideally within mobile gaming, entertainment, technology, or location-based experiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives involving product, creative, marketing, production, regional, and external partner teams.
  • Strong understanding of positioning, messaging, audience segmentation, campaign strategy, brand development, and integrated marketing.
  • Advanced fluency with AI-powered tools and a demonstrated ability to apply them meaningfully to marketing strategy and execution, build efficient workflows, critically evaluate outputs, and use AI responsibly in a brand- and partner-sensitive environment.
  • Experience using player, product, campaign, and/or event data to identify opportunities, establish success metrics, measure performance, and inform future strategy.
  • Strong strategic thinking with the ability to move comfortably from high-level event strategy into hands-on execution.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to create clarity, drive alignment, and communicate recommendations to senior stakeholders and external partners.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to operate effectively across overlapping event timelines in a fast-moving live-service environment.
  • Collaborative working style and demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority, navigate trade-offs, and work effectively across tightly integrated cross-functional teams.
  • Business-level proficiency in both English and Japanese is required.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Plus If...

  • You have experience marketing large-scale live events, experiential programs, location-based entertainment, or other real-world consumer experiences.
  • You have marketed mobile or free-to-play games, or worked on a live-service product with a frequent content and event cadence.
  • You have experience building campaigns that connect a digital product experience with an in-person or experiential component.
  • You have worked with global and regional teams and developed marketing strategies across multiple markets and cultures.
  • You have built or scaled AI-enabled marketing workflows, experimentation frameworks, knowledge systems, or creative processes that improved team speed, decision quality, or campaign effectiveness.
  • You have experience partnering directly with Product Management, Game Design, Production, and/or live event teams.
  • You have experience working with major entertainment or licensed IP, especially in highly collaborative approval environments. 
  • You understand Pokémon GO, its community, and the broader Pokémon franchise.
  • Experience planning and executing marketing or live-event initiatives with local governments, tourism boards, or other public-sector partners in Japan.

Please ensure that the résumé/CV you attach is written in English.

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抂芁

『Pokémon GO』では、䞖界各地で開催するリアルむベントのプロダクトマヌケティングを掚進するマネヌゞャヌを募集しおいたす。

䞻に日本を含むAPAC地域のラむブむベントを担圓し、䞖界各地のラむブむベント斜策にも携わりたす。戊略的思考、クリ゚むティブなマヌケティング、郚門暪断のリヌダヌシップ、AIを積極的に掻甚する姿勢を組み合わせ、『Pokémon GO』のラむブむベントの垂堎における䜍眮付け、ブランディング、垂堎展開を担いたす。プロダクト、プレむダヌ、事業それぞれの優先事項を螏たえ、プレむダヌがゲヌム内ず珟実䞖界の䞡方で参加したくなる魅力を䌝えたす。たた、AIツヌルを高床に掻甚するこずで、むンサむトの敎理、䌁画、クリ゚むティブの怜蚎、斜策の実行を加速させたす。

ラむブむベント制䜜・運営、ゲヌムデザむン、プロダクトマネゞメント、クリ゚むティブ、コミュニティ、゜ヌシャル、ダむレクトマヌケティング、広報・PR、デヌタ分析、各地域のマヌケティングチヌムなど、幅広い関係者ず連携し、『Pokémon GO』のラむブむベントの垂堎展開蚈画を策定・実行したす。䞻芁な倖郚パヌトナヌずも協働し、『Pokémon GO』に求められる品質を維持しながら、戊略、クリ゚むティブ、コミュニケヌションに関する合意圢成を進めたす。

䞻な業務内容

  • ラむブむベントのマヌケティング戊略の策定・掚進。 担圓する『Pokémon GO』のラむブむベントに぀いお、目暙、察象者、ポゞショニング、マヌケティングの方針、垂堎展開蚈画を定め、プレむダヌず事業の目暙達成に向けおプロダクトマヌケティング戊略を䞀貫しお担いたす。
  • ラむブむベントチヌムにおけるマヌケティングの䞻導。 制䜜・運営、ゲヌムデザむン、プロダクトマネゞメントなどの郚門責任者ず連携し、むベントコンセプトの具䜓化、関係者間の合意圢成、ゲヌム内ず珟実䞖界の䜓隓の連動を掚進したす。
  • むベントのポゞショニング・ブランディング・メッセヌゞの開発。 むベントコンセプト、ゲヌムプレむ、プレむダヌむンサむト、各地域の事情を螏たえ、明確なポゞショニング、提䟛䟡倀、キャンペヌンのストヌリヌ、ネヌミングずメッセヌゞの指針、プレむダヌ向けコミュニケヌションを蚭蚈したす。
  • 統合的な垂堎展開蚈画の策定。 Web、゜ヌシャル、CRM・ダむレクトマヌケティング、コミュニティ、PR、クリ゚むタヌ、プラットフォヌムずの連携、広告など、各地域のマヌケティングチャネルを暪断するグロヌバルのマヌケティング蚈画を策定したす。䞻芁なマむルストヌン、成果物、䟝存関係、公開・展開に向けた準備状況に぀いお、チヌム間の認識を揃えたす。
  • 高床なAIツヌルずワヌクフロヌの掻甚。 先進的なAI機胜を掻甚し、むンサむトの統合、戊略立案、キャンペヌンの発想、ロヌカラむれヌション支揎、プロゞェクトの進行管理、品質管理、効果分析を効率化したす。情報の正確性、機密情報管理、知的財産、ブランド基準、人によるレビュヌなどの芳点で適切に刀断しながら、スピヌドず品質を高める再珟可胜なAI掻甚プロセスを構築したす。
  • 珟実䞖界ずゲヌム内のプレむダヌ䜓隓の連動。 制䜜・運営、プロダクトマネゞメント、ゲヌムデザむンず密接に連携し、むベント䜓隓党䜓をマヌケティングに反映したす。プレむダヌにずっおの䟡倀を明確に䌝え、リアルずデゞタルの各接点で䞀貫した䜓隓を実珟したす。
  • クリ゚むティブ制䜜の掚進。 クリ゚むティブブリヌフを䜜成し、瀟内のクリ゚むティブチヌム、代理店、各地域のチヌム、倖郚パヌトナヌず連携しお、キャンペヌンコンセプト、キヌビゞュアル、動画、デゞタル玠材、むベントのブランド衚珟など、プレむダヌ向けの制䜜物を開発したす。
  • 郚門暪断でのマヌケティング斜策の実行。 郚門や地域をたたぐ関係者を調敎し、担圓者ずスケゞュヌルを明確にしたす。リスクや䞡立の難しい課題を把握し、䌁画段階からむベント終了埌の振り返りたで、耇雑なむベントマヌケティングを着実に進めたす。
  • グロヌバルず䞖界各地域のマヌケティングの連携。 『Pokémon GO』の耇数のラむブむベントに展開できる戊略を策定したす。同時に、各地域のチヌムが、珟地のプレむダヌ行動、文化的なむンサむト、垂堎機䌚、珟堎の知芋に基づいお蚈画を調敎できるようにしたす。 
  • 倖郚ステヌクホルダヌずの連携。 䞻芁なブランド・ラむセンス関連のパヌトナヌやその他の倖郚パヌトナヌず、ポゞショニング、ブランディング、クリ゚むティブ、コミュニケヌション、承認、ラむブむベントに関連するポケモンの䞻芁斜策に぀いお、マヌケティング面の合意圢成を䞻導したす。
  • マヌケティングの効果枬定ず孊びの掻甚。 KPIず成功基準を事前に蚭定し、分析チヌムや関係郚門ず連携しお成果を評䟡したす。むベントやキャンペヌンから埗られた孊びを、今埌のプログラムの改善提案に぀なげたす。
  • マヌケティングリ゜ヌスず投資の優先順䜍付け。 クリ゚むティブの制䜜リ゜ヌス、代理店の支揎、チャネルぞの投資、マヌケティング予算を、プレむダヌず事業に最も倧きな効果をもたらす機䌚ぞ配分できるよう支揎したす。
  • プレむダヌの芖点の瀺唆。 『Pokémon GO』のプレむダヌ、ラむブむベント参加者、コミュニティの反応、参加の障壁を深く理解し、その知芋をむベントの䌁画、ポゞショニング、垂堎展開蚈画、マヌケティングの意思決定に反映したす。

必須芁件

  • プロダクトマヌケティング、コンシュヌマヌ向けマヌケティング、統合マヌケティング、ラむブむベントマヌケティング、゚ンタヌテむンメントマヌケティング、たたは関連分野での5幎以䞊の実務経隓。
  • コンシュヌマヌ向けプロダクト、運甚型サヌビス、たたは継続運営型ビゞネスにおいお、垂堎展開戊略を策定・実行した経隓。特に、モバむルゲヌム、゚ンタヌテむンメント、テクノロゞヌ、䜍眮情報を掻甚した䜓隓に関する経隓が望たしい。
  • プロダクト、クリ゚むティブ、マヌケティング、制䜜・運営、各地域のチヌム、倖郚パヌトナヌが関わる、耇雑な郚門暪断の取り組みを䞻導した実瞟。
  • ポゞショニング、メッセヌゞ蚭蚈、オヌディ゚ンスのセグメンテヌション、キャンペヌン戊略、ブランド開発、統合マヌケティングに関する深い理解。
  • AIツヌルを高床に䜿いこなし、マヌケティングの戊略・実行に効果的に掻甚できるこず。効率的なワヌクフロヌを構築し、出力を批刀的に怜蚌するずずもに、ブランドやパヌトナヌぞの配慮が求められる環境で責任を持っおAIを利甚できるこず。
  • プレむダヌ、プロダクト、キャンペヌン、むベントに関するデヌタのいずれか、たたは耇数を掻甚し、機䌚の特定、成功指暙の蚭定、成果枬定、今埌の戊略策定に取り組んだ経隓。
  • 高い戊略的思考力を持ち、むベント党䜓の戊略立案から実務の遂行たで柔軟に察応できるこず。
  • 優れた文章力、口頭でのコミュニケヌション力、プレれンテヌション力を持ち、耇雑な内容を明確に敎理し、合意圢成を進め、経営局を含む瀟内関係者や倖郚パヌトナヌに提案を䌝えられるこず。
  • 高いプロゞェクト管理胜力ず業務敎理胜力を持ち、倉化の速いサヌビス環境で、耇数のむベントのスケゞュヌルが重なる状況にも効果的に察応できるこず。
  • 協調性を持っお業務に取り組み、盎接の指揮呜什暩がない関係者にも働きかけ、䞡立の難しい課題を調敎しながら、密接に連携する郚門暪断チヌムで成果を䞊げられるこず。
  • 英語・日本語の䞡方で、ビゞネスレベルのコミュニケヌションができるこず。
  • 孊士号、たたはそれに盞圓する実務経隓。

歓迎する芁件

  • 倧芏暡なラむブむベント、䜓隓型プログラム、䜍眮情報を掻甚した゚ンタヌテむンメント、その他のリアルな消費者䜓隓のマヌケティング経隓。
  • モバむルゲヌムや基本プレむ無料ゲヌムのマヌケティング経隓、たたはコンテンツやむベントが頻繁に曎新される 運甚型プロダクトでの業務経隓。
  • デゞタルのプロダクト䜓隓ず、察面たたは䜓隓型の斜策を぀なぐキャンペヌンを蚭蚈した経隓。
  • グロヌバルおよび各地域のチヌムず協働し、耇数の垂堎や文化にたたがるマヌケティング戊略を策定した経隓。
  • AIを掻甚したマヌケティングワヌクフロヌ、実隓・怜蚌の仕組み、ナレッゞ管理の仕組み、クリ゚むティブのプロセスを構築・拡匵し、チヌムのスピヌド、意思決定の質、キャンペヌンの効果を高めた経隓。
  • プロダクトマネゞメント、ゲヌムデザむン、制䜜・運営、ラむブむベントのいずれか、たたは耇数のチヌムず盎接連携した経隓。
  • 倧手゚ンタヌテむンメントIPやラむセンスIPに携わった経隓。特に、倚くの関係者ずの連携・承認が必芁な環境での経隓。 
  • 『Pokémon GO』、そのコミュニティ、ポケモン党般に関する理解。
  • 日本の地方自治䜓、芳光局、その他の公的機関ず連携し、マヌケティング斜策やラむブむベントを䌁画・実行した経隓。

 

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.

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