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VP Marketing
 

Rebel Monkey, Inc. is a visionary start-up in New York City founded by Nicholas Fortugno and Margaret Wallace.

Rebel Monkey is looking for an exceptional VP of Marketing to help lead our highly creative, award-winning team.  Interested applicants please contact Rebel Monkey at jobs@rebelmonkey.com.

Responsibilities:

• Strategy: Quickly become an expert in casual game market dynamics and a confident contributor to strategic planning
• Customer Acquisition: Bring expert knowledge in growing traffic to Rebel Monkey online properties via customary as well as innovative, ‘out-of-the-box’ marketing strategies.
• Brand:  Move our products and culture beyond casual gamers to an even greater mass market
• Product Marketing: Assist team in creating a world-class online experience.  Take our products to market in the most effective, efficient and innovative ways on our web site in addition to social media sites, musicians, artists, blogs, and other innovative partnerships.
• Research: Understand and evangelize our current and potential consumer audiences by overseeing a wide variety of research techniques including surveys, focus tests, 1:1 play tests, metrics-driven internal alpha and external beta tests, and free/paid third party research.
• Corporate Communications: Work to ensure our communications, PR, and event strategy supports key product and corporate objectives.
• Staff Management: Be a great manager to your team, helping them grow in their careers and become more expert in their areas of focus. Grow your team strategically and in alignment with the rest of the organization.

Requirements:

• Deep experience in online customer acquisition and retention, with a proven track record of personally contributing to significant user growth of one or more web properties.
• Previous exposure to and comfort with managing the other responsibilities listed above.
• Strong analytical and written/verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to embrace both the big picture and the details with strong project and people management skills
• High sense of accountability and integrity
• Organized self starter with a can-do attitude and an entrepreneurial spirit
• 10 years of marketing experience, at least 5 years in a leadership role
• Four year college degree with strong office application software skills
• Prior experience in the video game industry is NOT a requirement, but a demonstrable passion for consumer entertainment is.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Marketing MBA from a top program
• Entertainment marketing experience
• Experience in the video games industry is a nice-to-have, but not required.

Required Personal Skills:

• Meticulous attention to detail
• Appreciation of varied, personal style, and mainstream trends and sub-cultures
• Be organized and work effectively under deadlines
• Ability to take direction to meet creative and business needs
• Capacity to evaluate own work, as well as to accept feedback and redirect own work with limited supervision
• Enjoy working in an organic atmosphere of creativity, passion, and drive

Rebel Monkey just closed a round of venture capital financing. Why does that matter? Because we get to focus on creating our own interactive experiences completely independent of pressures from clients or publishers.

Rebel Monkey is a great environment with great people. Interested? Please send your resume and contact information to: jobs@rebelmonkey.com.

No recruiters, please. Principles only.