Niantic's Emerging Markets team is seeking an Indonesia Manager to work alongside Niantic's Emerging Market Head responsible for acquisition/management of partner relationships, performance management and engaging local Pokémon GO communities. This role requires a candidate who learns fast, hustles to implement, collaborates well with various functional teams and is passionate about our games. The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, takes initiative, and loves our mission of encouraging outdoor exploration. This role is a contractor position.
Responsibilities
- Project Management – planning and execution of synergistic events/activations with the largest partner companies in the country (i.e.: Community Days, gaming events). Plan and work with marketing, product, and cross-functional teams to identify potential activation & event opportunities.
- Business Development - Identification of potential partners (i.e.: mobile network operators, convenience stores, city governments, etc.) to create collaborative events.
- Marketing Strategy- Assist in the end-to-end planning of market entry strategies, marketing campaigns for Pokémon GO and other Niantic games.
- POI database identification - Ability to secure POI databases that enable local points of interest in our games and work cross-functionally to ingest them.
Qualifications
- Business level communication in English, Bahasa Indonesia and/or other regional languages.
- 4+ years of experience in the tech or gaming industry in Indonesia.
- Experience in partnerships/collaborations, project management, and talent management.
- Strategic problem solver with strong leadership, management, and communication skills.
- Strong written communications and editorial skills.
- Able to make critical decisions under time constraints and a full workload.
- Able to work long hours and weekends when needed.
- Able to travel, including domestically and internationally.
- Capability to develop positive relationships and work collaboratively to tackle problems.
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent), or equivalent practical experience.
- Passion for Niantic games!
This is a contractor position and the work should be performed based on service agreement and SOW. Niantic will not offer Contractor direct employment contract, salary, benefits, equities, or any compensation associated with employment.
Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.
We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.
Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.
We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID
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What We Do
Niantic is the world’s leading AR technology company, sparking creative and engaging journeys in the real world. Our products inspire outdoor exploration, exercise, and meaningful social interaction.
Originally formed at Google in 2011, we became an independent company in 2015 with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. Our current titles include pioneering global-control game Ingress, record-breaking AR game Pokémon GO, and recently released third title, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
