SEGA of America, Inc. a rapidly expanding video games publisher and developer within the western market, and is the US arm of SEGA Sammy, a world leader in the provision of interactive entertainment both inside and outside the home. SEGA develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms such as Xbox, PlayStation platforms, Nintendo platforms, PC and wireless devices.

Industry: Computer Games
Company Size: 201-500 employees

Sega of America, Inc.

Savvy Admin PROD

**Hybrid Work Model**

**Job Summary**

The QA Lead is responsible for coordinating and overseeing QA execution for assigned projects. This role performs most of its time reviewing, vetting, and processing bug reports from the full QA team, delegating tasks, and ensuring project remains on schedule and meets quality standards. The QA Lead may also conduct limited compliance testing to ensure software meets regulatory and performance requirements.

This position may be required to assist with editing work, collecting marketing assets, and support additional localization work as required.

**Duties And Responsibilities**

- Contribute to the creation, execution, and maintenance of test plans to support submission of titles to first-party platforms free of functional, grammatical, and graphical defects.

- Conduct English Localization testing across a wide variety of game titles.

- Compile QA status updates and consolidated project reports from internal teams and external vendors.

- Identify and communicate potential risks to project schedules.

- Review, vet, and regression-test defect reports submitted by QA team members to ensure quality and accuracy.

- Attend project meetings and provide regular status updates and completed end-of-pass reports to stakeholders as needed.

- Attend and actively contribute to project meetings as a QA Lead.

- Other responsibilities are performed as assigned or needed.

**Qualifications**

**Qualifications and Skills: **

- Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision, collaboration, and teamwork. In-office attendance is required for the following reasons:

- For effective supervision of employees and our work product, which includes ensuring all employees have necessary oversight of their work and access to supervisory assistance, which includes meetings to review work product, deadlines, and status.

- To foster communication and collaboration among team members, which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas, quick access to team members to enable collaborative problem-solving, and stronger cohesion among co-workers and within teams.

- To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.

- To enhance understanding of our stakeholders’ work and business needs, facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow, and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

- 3+ years of Quality Assurance experience with at least 1 year of experience as a Team Lead.

- Experience with supporting and managing QA project schedules.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Moderate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.

**Bonus**

- Experience coordinating work with external vendors.

- Experience testing pre-release or live games.

- Exposure to localization testing or text editing.

- Background in game asset or footage capture.

- Familiarity with compliance or first-party QA testing.

- Familiarity with Atlassian products.

QA Lead

**Hybrid Work Model**

**Job Summary**

The QA Specialist is responsible for executing assigned test plans on pre-release software builds to identify and document English text defects. This role performs routine testing activities within defined procedures and supports short-term project outcomes under the guidance of the QA Management team. This position spends most of its time in hands-on game testing and actively contributing to bug reports.

In support of QA project needs, the position may conduct compliance testing to ensure software meets regulatory and performance requirements, assist with footage capture for ratings board submissions, and provide additional localization and functional testing support to QA leads as assigned.

**Duties And Responsibilities**

- Execute assigned test plans to support submission of titles to first-party platforms free of functional, grammatical, and graphical defects.

- Conduct English Localization testing across a wide variety of game titles.

- Perform first-party compliance testing, primarily supporting Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft platforms.

- For PC platforms (Steam, EGS, Origin), follow SEGA’s PC Best Practices and perform internal QA reviews.

- Regression test assigned defects to confirm resolution.

- Attend project meetings and provide regular status updates and completed end-of-pass reports to stakeholders as needed.

- Other responsibilities are performed as assigned or needed.

**Qualifications**

**Qualifications and Skills: **

- Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision, collaboration, and teamwork. In-office attendance is required for the following reasons:

- For effective supervision of employees and our work product, which includes ensuring all employees have necessary oversight of their work and access to supervisory assistance, which includes meetings to review work product, deadlines, and status.

- To foster communication and collaboration among team members, which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas, quick access to team members to enable collaborative problem-solving, and stronger cohesion among co-workers and within teams.

- To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.

- To enhance understanding of our stakeholders’, work and business needs, facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow, and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

- 2+ years of Quality Assurance experience

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Ability to switch between multiple projects and testing assignments.

- Moderate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.

- Understanding of PC hardware and current generation consoles.

**Bonus**

- Experience testing pre-release or live games.

- Exposure to localization testing or text editing.

- Experience capturing gameplay footage or assets.

- Familiarity with compliance or first-party QA testing.

- Familiarity with Atlassian products.

QA Specialist

**Hybrid Work Model**

**Job Summary**

The Director, Influencer Marketing, will provide strategic leadership in fostering relationships with creators, influencers, and social media platforms to empower them to build, publish, operate, grow, and monetize their experiences through our content and services. The role operates at the intersection of games, creator ecosystems, platform infrastructure, community, and innovation, driving impactful initiatives to elevate our brand, expand product capabilities, and deliver measurable outcomes.

This position focuses on fostering long-term partnerships, refining content strategies, and driving innovative product initiatives while addressing platform growth and optimization challenges, including trust & safety, community development, and digital economies.

**Duties And Responsibilities**

**Strategic Leadership**

- Drive strategic initiatives that empower creators to build, publish, operate, grow, and monetize their experiences using innovative tools and services.

- Operate at the intersection of games, creator ecosystems, platform infrastructure, community, and innovation, ensuring alignment across these domains.

- Develop and implement an influencer and creator engagement strategy aligned with our portfolio of IPs, business objectives and market trends.

**Creator Campaign Ownership and Innovation**

- Manage initiatives from concept through launch and iteration, including opportunity definition, prioritization, requirements gathering, launch planning, and post-launch analysis.

- Utilize qualitative and quantitative inputs — including player and creator feedback, analytics, and market analysis — to inform prioritization and product decisions.

- Identify opportunities and challenges across the creator ecosystem, including creation tools, publishing, moderation, discovery, operations, and monetization.

- Improve existing platform and commerce capabilities while exploring new services, business models, and growth opportunities for the Creator ecosystem.

**Social Media Platform Management**

- Build and maintain relationships with key contacts at social media platform partners (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Meta, Twitch).

- Collaborate with platform representatives to stay informed about their best practices, new product offerings, and evolving processes.

- Ensure alignment between the company’s content strategy and new platform capabilities to maximize campaign effectiveness and platform growth.

**Partnership Development**

- Identify and forge partnerships with top-tier creators and influencers, along with agency partners, across diverse platforms, focusing on authenticity and alignment with our IPs.

- Evaluate and negotiate collaboration terms, contracts, and budgets to optimize ROI while adhering to compliance and organizational priorities.

- Cultivate long-term relationships with creators to foster trust, continued collaboration, and mutual growth.

**Campaign and Ecosystem Oversight**

- Lead large-scale creator and influencer marketing campaigns, including strategic planning, real-time execution, and performance analysis.

- Facilitate collaboration between creators and internal teams to produce impactful content that drives engagement, revenue, and brand affinity.

- Monitor and refine tools, workflows, and processes for campaign management to improve operational efficiency.

**Team Leadership and Education**

- Mentor and enable the professional development of the influencer engagement team, fostering a high-performing and collaborative environment.

- Work as a team player, educator, and facilitator with marketing, community, communications and studio developers to drive understanding and engagement within the creator ecosystem.

- Provide platform and influencer marketing expertise to stakeholders across the company, reinforcing alignment and synergy across initiatives.

**Analytics and Reporting**

- Establish and track KPIs such as reach, engagement, conversion rates, customer acquisition cost (CAC), and creator ecosystem growth metrics.

- Leverage data, feedback, and insights to optimize strategies, refine product offerings, and enhance campaign performance.

- Prepare data-driven reports and presentations to summarize campaign performance, platform growth, and ROI for executive stakeholders.

- Other responsibilities are performed as assigned or needed.

**Qualifications**

**Qualifications and Skills: **

- Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision, collaboration, and teamwork. In-office attendance is required for the following reasons:

- For effective supervision of employees and our work product, which includes ensuring all employees have necessary oversight of their work and access to supervisory assistance, which includes meetings to review work product, deadlines, and status.

- To foster communication and collaboration among team members, which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas, quick access to team members to enable collaborative problem-solving, and stronger cohesion among co-workers and within teams.

- To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.

- To enhance understanding of our stakeholders’ work and business needs, facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow, and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field.

- Typically has 10+ years of experience with 5+ years of management experience in influencer engagement, creator partnerships, product management, or platform strategy, with a proven record of driving impactful campaigns.

- Experience operating live platforms with user-generated content, communities, or creator ecosystems, including considerations for moderation, reliability, performance, and trust & safety.

- Experience with digital economies, marketplaces, or monetized ecosystems where pricing, incentives, and supply dynamics influence user behavior.

- Experience building developer or creator platforms, including tools, APIs, SDKs, or systems designed for creators or developers.

- Experience working in video games, entertainment, consumer brands, creator platforms and/or advertising / talent agencies.

**Skills**

- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to build trust-based relationships externally and internally.

- Strong budget management abilities, including forecasting & resource allocation.

- A team-oriented mindset with a passion for mentoring, collaborative problem-solving, and improving workflows across company stakeholders.

- Analytical proficiency using both qualitative (e.g., player and creator feedback) and quantitative inputs (e.g., campaign metrics, market analysis) to guide decision-making and prioritize product initiatives.

**Key Competencies**

- Strategic thinking with the ability to balance immediate execution and long-term ecosystem development.

- Leadership and mentorship capabilities to inspire and guide both direct reports and internal collaborators.

- Creative problem-solving with a data-driven focus on delivering measurable results and business impact.

- Flexibility and adaptability to work seamlessly across global creator ecosystems, platforms, and gaming environments.

Director, Influencer Marketing

**Hybrid Work Model**

**Job Summary**

This role is an entry-level operations position within Global Product Operations at SEGA of America. It is primarily responsible for PC platform operations across Steam, Epic Games Store, and Microsoft Store, with additional support for console build uploads, deployments, and automation initiatives. The coordinator will manage vendor relationships for anti-piracy solutions, PC hardware compatibility testing, and crash reporting systems. Other duties may be assigned to better support operational needs.

The Operations Coordinator will collaborate closely with internal teams within GPO, including Submissions, QA, and Digital Ops, as well as cross-functional partners in Production, Development, Marketing, and IT. This position is part of the Platform Operations team within the GPO organization and reports directly to the Manager of PC Operations.

**Duties And Responsibilities**

- Provide educational materials to producers for PC development.

- Coordinate with PC vendors regarding DRM, PC compatibility, and related services.

- Support QA projects and PC compatibility testing through completion.

- Code sign PC executables when developers are unable to do so themselves.

- Ensure Handheld Compatibility forms and PC minimum/recommended specifications are completed and properly displayed on storefronts.

- Maintain and update all PC-related and build deployment documentation in the internal wiki.

- Collaborate with Platform Ops to refine sign-off processes for PC submissions.

- Upload and deploy builds for assigned projects, including PC and console builds.

- Perform light build checks to verify basic functionality and identify critical issues before deployment.

- Verify build submission requirements (e.g., DRM confirmation, digital signature) and flag any potential risks.

- Report any technical issues that could impact a title's PC platform release.

- Work closely with the Platform Ops Submissions team and Producers to ensure builds, depots, and sandboxes are properly configured.

- Provide backup support for the Platform Ops Submissions team as needed.

- Other responsibilities are performed as assigned or needed.

**Qualifications**

**Qualifications and Skills: **

- Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision, collaboration, and teamwork. In-office attendance is required for the following reasons:

- For effective supervision of employees and our work product, which includes ensuring all employees have necessary oversight of their work and access to supervisory assistance, which includes meetings to review work product, deadlines, and status.

- To foster communication and collaboration among team members, which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas, quick access to team members to enable collaborative problem-solving, and stronger cohesion among co-workers and within teams.

- To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.

- To enhance understanding of our stakeholders’ work and business needs, facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow, and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

- Minimum of 2 years of experience in game development, project coordination, QA, release management, or similar fields.

- Strong organization and follow-through, with the ability to manage multiple small tasks under deadlines and shifting priorities.

- Comfortable communicating in writing and participating in meetings with cross-functional teams and external partners.

- Project managing experience using task tracking and documentation tools such as Jira, Confluence, Notion, Asana, or similar.

- Proficient with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

- Basic technical comfort working on Windows, installing builds, and following step-by-step operational procedures, including understanding of command lines (Command Prompt, PowerShell, etc.).

- Positive, professional, and curious attitude.

- Stays current with the latest developments in games, technology, and market trends.

- Flexible working extended hours.

- Ability to travel internationally as needed; valid passport required (or ability to obtain one).

**Bonus**

- Familiarity with one or more platform portals (Steamworks, Epic Games Store Dev Portal, Microsoft Partner Center, DevNet, NDP, etc.)

- Understanding of PC gaming (e.g., hardware, graphics settings, game engines) and familiarity with build packaging and deployment processes.

- Exposure to build systems and automation.

- Familiarity with DRM or anti-piracy.

- Fluent in Japanese.

Operations Coordinator, PC Ops

**Hybrid Work Model**

**Job Summary**

Reporting to the Vice President of Product Marketing, the Director of Product Marketing is tasked with driving world class game marketing and performance across a portfolio of iconic SEGA IP, including Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, and more. Working closely with studio partners, marketing cross functional teams, and key business stakeholders in our American, European, and Japan offices, you will lead your team to shape the global product marketing strategy, positioning, and go-to-market tactical plan as well as drive the business plan for your titles worldwide. As an accomplished marketer and team leader you will manage and grow your team, develop strong planning processes, and play a pivotal role as part of the marketing leadership team that will continue to drive innovation and constantly advance SEGA’s global marketing capability and performance.

**Duties And Responsibilities **

- Be the owner for all aspects of marketing leadership across a portfolio of assigned titles. This includes owning full lifecycle management from long-range portfolio planning to foundational marketing strategy to go-to market execution and postmortem.

- Develop, implement, and lead product positioning, audience definition/sizing and the over-arching marketing strategies.

- Drive the timely planning and execution of go-to-market plans across all marketing channels.

- Oversee the creation of all global marketing assets for your product and campaigns, including key art, logos, trailers, and more.

- Ability to lead and influence decision making across key executive stakeholders, including business and game development for brands such as Sonic the Hedgehog and more.

- Function as a highly collaborative custodian of integrated marketing across multiple partners including communications and public relations, community, sales, creative services, events, paid media, 1st parties, external agencies, development teams, and regional marketing teams in the Sega of Europe and Sega of Japan offices.

- Mentor and develop a team of product marketing leads, to empower them to lead cross functional teams on marketing campaigns for their games.

- Support the inline/greenlight process with market insights and forecast rationale all while representing the needs of players.

- Own the Western P&L and manage the marketing budget across your portfolio.

- Serve as the global marketing lead for your games, ensuring regional marketing teams create plans that adhere to a global marketing strategy, while simultaneously encouraging and empowering regional teams to develop marketing plans tailored to their market, audience preferences and behaviors.

- Develop and maintain excellent relationships with studio partner and serve as the voice of the brand to players and the voice of the players to developers.

- Work hand in hand with transmedia and brand team counterparts to develop complimentary marketing plans to help grow the audience for SEGA brands and leverage movies, TV, consumer products, and other transmedia initiatives to help market your games.

- Function as a change agent and drive high impact, innovative marketing campaigns and initiatives, with ability to explain effectiveness via KPIs.

- Ability to analyze varieties of data, identifying marketing trends, and apply data to produce fact-driven recommendations.

- Other related duties as required.

- Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision, collaboration, and teamwork. In-office attendance is required for the following reasons:

- For effective supervision of employees and our work product, which includes ensuring all employees have necessary oversight of their work and access to supervisory assistance, which includes meetings to review work product, deadlines, and status.

- To foster communication and collaboration among team members, which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas, quick access to team members to enable collaborative problem-solving, and stronger cohesion among co-workers and within teams.

- To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.

- To enhance understanding of our stakeholders’ work and business needs, facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow, and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

**Qualifications**

**Qualifications and Skills:**

- Minimum of 10+ years of experience in a marketing role within gaming and or consumer products. Experience at a major game publisher or consumer product company with experience launching multiple games preferred.

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in the field, MBA a nice to have, but not required.

- Must be a gamer or passionate about the gaming industry, and care deeply about representing the needs of players.

- Experience working within Japanese headquartered companies, or relevant non-domestic headquartered companies strongly recommended. Experience working in a global environment a must.

- Japanese language skills are a plus but are not required.

- Experience developing, managing, and pitching global marketing campaigns, working with regional and cross functional teams to ensure the vision is executed effectively.

- Experience managing marketing budgets of $5M - $50M+

- Direct experience and knowledge of 1st party console and PC platform partner processes and policies.

- Experience in project management, analysis, and the ability to collaborate with multiple teams on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

- Highly effective oral and written communication skills and attention to detail.

- Independent worker with little supervision required and willingness to navigate areas of unfamiliarity while maintaining a positive, professional, collaborative, and flexible attitude.

- Strong analytical skills necessary to measure campaign effectiveness/ROI and adjust as needed.

- Ability to coordinate execution of plans within budget and established timelines.

- Ability to manage a team of direct reports, with desire to grow, cultivate, and nurture direct reports.

- Willing to occasionally conduct meetings with Europe and Japan around normal US business hours as needed.

Director, Product Marketing, Legacy

**Hybrid Work Model**

**Job Summary**

The Digital Media team leads strategy and execution of SEGA’s paid media and paid influencer marketing campaigns across all PC & Console titles such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Persona, Metaphor: Refantazio, Yakuza/Like a Dragon, Total War, and Football Manager. Working with external agency partners and cross-functional internal teams, the digital media team defines strategy, manages execution, and leads analysis of our paid media efforts in the US, Canada, and across LATAM.

The Digital Media Manager role will collaborate with the individual teams under Marketing Services, Consumer Insights, Business Planning, Sales, Brand, Transmedia and Product Marketing team to usher in existing and new audiences into the SEGA ecosystem. This includes managing campaigns across paid media and paid influencer campaigns for both North America and LATAM regions.

The right candidate for this role will be goal-oriented, data-driven and analytical with a passion for digital media, media planning/buying, catalogue marketing, detail-oriented, an eye for accuracy and a love of data. This person has a deep understanding of the relationship between media metrics, reach/frequency and sales with an emphasis in catalogue marketing. The ideal candidate will have experience of working on product launches in the gaming industry.

This role reports into the Director of Digital Media, is based in the Irvine, CA office and will require to be on-site a minimum of 3 days per week.

**Duties And Responsibilities **

- Develop accurate and effective media plans designed to drive highly targeted, high frequency conversion campaigns for SEGA’s console, and PC games.

- Manage awareness and conversion campaigns, testing a variety of traffic sources and targeting refinements with the goal of driving purchase intent, traffic to sega.com and maximizing return on investment.

- Coordinate assets and QA within our external agency and internal teams to ensure edits and adjustments are made to specification.

- Ensure that campaign KPIs are met and provide a detailed interpretation of performance data, identifying new opportunities.

- Create and run AB tests and be able to interpret and represent data to wider team members.

- Analyze campaign and research data and present findings to brand marketing teams and executives.

- Ensure games and campaigns are tagged and tracked correctly, defining event goals associated with conversion objectives and support product marketing teams during implementation.

- Lead the measurement and analysis of media campaign performance and ensure campaign optimization is happening in an on-going basis.

- Manage SEGA’s media agency of record and influencer agencies while maintaining point of contact for conversion and media campaigns.

- Performs other duties as assigned.

- Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision, collaboration, and teamwork. In-office attendance is required for the following reasons:

- For effective supervision of employees and our work product, which includes ensuring all employees have necessary oversight of their work and access to supervisory assistance, which includes meetings to review work product, deadlines, and status.

- To foster communication and collaboration among team members, which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas, quick access to team members to enable collaborative problem-solving, and stronger cohesion among co-workers and within teams.

- To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.

- To enhance understanding of our stakeholders’ work and business needs, facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow, and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

**Qualifications**

**Qualifications and Skills:**

- 5+ years’ experience in digital marketing with a focus on media planning.

- Hands on experiencing directly planning and managing digital paid media campaigns and presenting media plan and findings in a concise fashion.

- Knowledgeable with game marketing, specifically catalog marketing and eCommerce with an emphasis on performance marketing driving to digital storefronts.

- Expert in digital, programmatic, paid search, and social media platforms. Advanced knowledge in Amazon, Google, Meta, and Tik Tok required.

- Deep understanding of how to use media to drive awareness and conversions of console and PC gaming brands.

- Knowledge of directly using industry planning and research tools such as Kantar, ComScore, GWI, and Nielsen.

- Intellectually curious with strong analytical skills, including demonstrated ability of performing complex data analysis and building data-driven reports.

- Experience of working with development teams and media outlets to properly implement and test analytics tracking.

- Experience working with audience builders to run retargeting campaigns.

- Strong project management skills and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines.

- Ability to analyze, draft, and share presentations to the executive team in a clear and effective manner.

- Self-motivated, revenue driven and passionate about supporting SEGA in the online games space.

- Outstanding oral, written and multi-cultural communication skills.

- Must be detail oriented, possess good time management as well as business process management skills and be able to prioritize in a changing environment.

- Ability to travel. This position requires occasional day and overnight trips away from the traditional business setting.

- Active player of PC and console games, able to understand the perspective of both casual, mid-core and even hard-core gamer.

Digital Media Manager

**Hybrid Work Model**

**Job Summary**

SEGA of America is seeking an Editor I to help deliver top-class, Japanese products to Western markets.

Our editors are specialists in the English language and work closely with a team of fellow editors alongside a partnered translation team. The primary responsibility is to review raw Japanese-to-English translations and transform them into evocative, meaning-faithful English localizations. This includes dialogue, narrative text, system messages, and other in-game content, all of which should accurately reflect the intent, tone, and experience of the original Japanese source and while resonating with Western audiences.

We are seeking candidates for this position who are passionate about video games, language, cross-cultural storytelling, and who bring a friendly, professional, and collaborative approach to their work.

Editors who consistently demonstrate a sustained, high-quality performance for a prolonged period may be considered for future lateral growth opportunities.

This is a hybrid position, with employees expected to be in-office on specified days each week.

**Duties And Responsibilities**

- Edit and rewrite localized game text and related documentation, including voiced and unvoiced dialogue, item descriptions, system text, and other in-game content.

- Collaborate with editors, translators, and project team members on assigned projects; communicate in person and via messaging tools to clarify game text and resolve issues.

- Coordinate with Project Leads to track progress and receive editorial guidance.

- Attend daily/weekly project-specific meetings as required.

- Attend voiceover recording sessions as needed, either for in-studio or remote sessions.

- Update and maintain style guides, glossaries, and story bibles for assigned projects.

- Stay current with video game trends, game terminology, first-party naming conventions, and relevant subcultures.

- Solve localization challenges by finding effective English equivalents for Japanese nuances such as jokes, idioms, etc.

- Perform other duties as assigned by Project Leads, Senior Editors, Lead Editors, or Localization Management.

- Other responsibilities are performed as assigned or needed.

**Qualifications**

**Qualifications and Skills: **

- Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision, collaboration, and teamwork. In-office attendance is required for the following reasons:

- For effective supervision of employees and our work product, which includes ensuring all employees have necessary oversight of their work and access to supervisory assistance, which includes meetings to review work product, deadlines, and status.

- To foster communication and collaboration among team members, which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas, quick access to team members to enable collaborative problem-solving, and stronger cohesion among co-workers and within teams.

- To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.

- To enhance understanding of our stakeholders’ work and business needs, facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow, and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

- Bachelor’s degree in English or equivalent experience.

- Typically has 2+ years of experience in writing, editing, or localization experience, preferably in the entertainment industry.

**Bonus**

- Passionate and active video game players.

- Knowledge of SEGA’s IPs.

- Understanding of Japanese culture. (Basic Japanese language knowledge is a bonus, but not required.)

**Career Progression & Leveling**

Editor roles are structured across three levels: Editor I, Editor II, and Editor III. Progression is based on demonstrated proficiency, competencies, and seniority.

**Core Competencies (Required At All Levels) **

- All Editors are expected to consistently demonstrate the following competencies:

- Performance: Quality, proactiveness, meticulousness, knowledgeable

- Timeliness: Regularly hits or surpasses average quotas, attendance punctuality, meeting punctuality, quick to follow up on tasks/requests

- Communication: Highly communication, asks/answers questions, quick to inform/reply, raises attention to issues in a timely manger

- Consistency: Reliability, self-management, strong and regular demonstration of all other competencies

**Proficiencies **

- QA Bridge:

- Demonstrate continued and reliable support of QA during LQA period, for bug fixing, bug translations (J>E or E>J), etc.

- Marketing Bridge:

- Demonstrate continued and reliable support of Marketing for promotional materials, interview translations/editing, collaboration requests, etc.

- VO Support:

- Demonstrate continued and reliable support of PD, VO actors, and VO directors during recording and post-recording, such as pacing, line read accuracy, performance assistance, audio checks, etc.

- Project Archivist

- Demonstrate continued and reliable support of our own Localization department during and after a project period by archiving project information, archiving post-mortems and other administrative information, updating story and character content, etc.

Editor I

**Hybrid Work Model**

**Job Summary**

The Associate Brand Manager is an important global marketing role that is integral to the continued growth of the Sonic the Hedgehog brand across various businesses – gaming, entertainment, consumer products and live events. The role will support the strategic development, execution and management of Sonic brand initiatives to drive growth, strengthen fandom and build brand equity.

The Associate Brand Manager position will help support the development and execution of the global marketing strategies & campaigns for the Sonic the Hedgehog brand – celebrating the Sonic IP and entertaining, engaging, and educating new and existing audiences worldwide. The role requires a balance of strategic thinking, creativity and analytic expertise to deliver marketing programs that help achieve larger business & franchise goals.

The role requires knowledge and experience in the following: brand building, style guide creation, campaign development, creative production of marketing assets, social media, PR and experiential / event management.

This role will interface closely with teams in Burbank (CA), Orange County (CA), England and in Japan. Our team is composed of thoughtful, innovative, flexible, supportive, collaborative, and most importantly respectful people. We are looking for a team member who will be a positive addition to this type of team environment.

**Duties And Responsibilities **

- Brand Strategy & Campaign Development: Collaborate on the development of annual brand campaigns that are aligned with company objectives, leveraging consumer insights and category trends.

- Brand Expansion & Stewardship: Champion and evolve the voice of the Sonic the Hedgehog brand for our core audience and the next generation of fans.

- Campaign Management: Manage the annual marketing calendar, ensuring consistent & timely execution across campaigns, activations and promotions.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the point person and drive collaboration across various internal Sonic teams including Licensing, Partnerships, Product Marketing / Gaming, Animation, Social/Community, PR and global brand teams.

- Creative Execution: Support the creative development of key assets for brand collateral, promotions and activations (key art, logos, trailers, social content, digital assets, etc).

- Agency / Partner Management: Manage creative agency, event agency, and promotional partner onboarding and communication.

- Performance Analysis & Reporting: Track brand performance metrics and provide actionable insights.

- Consumer Research & Insights: Support various consumer research and business data analysis projects to intelligently develop marketing strategies & franchise planning.

- Financial / Budget Management: Ensure business plan goals are met and budget management is achieved while maximizing global campaign effectiveness.

- Performs other duties as assigned

- Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision, collaboration, and teamwork. In-office attendance is required for the following reasons:

- For effective supervision of employees and our work product, which includes ensuring all employees have necessary oversight of their work and access to supervisory assistance, which includes meetings to review work product, deadlines, and status.

- To foster communication and collaboration among team members, which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas, quick access to team members to enable collaborative problem-solving, and stronger cohesion among co-workers and within teams.

- To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.

- To enhance understanding of our stakeholders’ work and business needs, facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow, and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

**Qualifications**

**QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:**

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in the field.

- Minimum of 3+ years of brand and marketing experience. Experience with game publishers, entertainment studios, creative agencies and/or consumer products is a plus.

- Proven track record of producing highly creative campaigns for major global brands, showing strong results and achieving business goals.

- Experience with domestic and international marketing that supports the entire brand ecosystem across entertainment, games, animation, consumer products and more.

- Ability to drive global campaigns end-to-end, from research & positioning, through go-to-market and post-launch.

- Strong written & oral communication skills, as this role is central in interfacing with cross-functional teams, executive stakeholders, and external partners.

- Project management experience with a proven ability to work with multiple teams as you coordinate execution of plans within budget, set timelines, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment with a high attention to detail.

- Ability to leverage quantitative analytic measures, build business cases to support initiatives and focus on KPI / ROI metrics.

- Experience managing budgets and contracts together with Accounting & Legal teams, and some P&L experience is a plus.

- Understands the media landscape, recognizes opportunities, and demonstrates knowledge of creative development and effective media campaigns.

- Independent worker with little or no supervision required, and willingness to proactively navigate areas of unfamiliarity working in a global environment.

- Positive, professional, and curious attitude.

- Willing to work overtime and conduct meetings with Europe and Japan at off hours.

- Occasional work over the weekend and travel may be required.

- Ability to work in office 3 days a week (in-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).

**Preferred Skills**

- Microsoft Suite (Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, Word).

- Creative Development (including Key Art and trailer development).

- Project Management tools (such as Trello, Asana, Monday, Notion, etc.)

- Digital and Traditional marketing (including Performance Marketing, Print and OOH).

- Video game industry knowledge a plus

Associate Brand Manager

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