About us:
Curve Games (part of the Catalis Group) is an award-winning independent games publisher working with developers across the world to deliver the best in interactive entertainment.
With a uniquely diverse games catalogue that includes renowned indie hits such as For the King, For the King 2, Bomber Crew, The Ascent, Lawn Mowing Simulator, and the multi-million-selling smash hit Human Fall Flat. Curve Games has become one of the leading games publishers worldwide.
Want to join our friendly and hardworking team, then read on to find out more about the job role available…
Reporting to the Senior Community Manager, the Community Manager will be responsible for:
- Developing and leading on all community comms for your assigned titles, from overall strategy to final deliverables.
- Scale up social media reach, engagement, and conversion to drive measurable results.
- Owning social strategy and implementation for your assigned titles using tried and tested playbook tactics to tailor and maximise audience growth and the impact of our content.
- Managing social media calendars for your titles, ensuring they support the wider comms plan across paid, owned and earned media.
- Managing the day-to-day running of social channels (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, Discord) creating innovative and engaging posts that stay on trend with the wider game industry.
- Becoming a reactive and pro-active presence across direct-to-customer platforms such as Discord and other customer service channels.
- Delivering live and prerecorded streams to a regular and consistent schedule to support game launches as well as on-going engagement and retention.
- Ensuring that additional editorial channels such as Steam News, Xbox Clubs and Curve’s owned website are always populated with the latest, most relevant content.
- Reporting campaign performance on a weekly and monthly basis via tailored reporting, ensuring that growth momentum is being tracked whilst learnings and best practices are being shared.
What we want from you:
- Min. 3+ years’ experience running and growing social channels and delivering community programmes, through the creation, curation and distribution of exceptional content.
- A true games fanatic, with knowledge across all platforms and a passion for indie gaming, but able to talk direct to fans with less knowhow.
- Experience with live service games, with RPGs being preferrable.
- You must be an expert on all things social, a growth marketer at heart, you understand how to create viral growth through evolving compelling social content and campaigns.
- Experience with streaming; ideally you have experimented with streaming or have set-up and managed streams for others.
- Results driven - you have a track record of impeccable execution and delivery - increasing reach, followers and engagement within a high growth business, operating independently without need for oversight or guidance
- A creative with a flair and passion and a powerful instinct for what makes content compelling and shareable
- Capable in Adobe package software, including Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Experience working directly with online communities, responding to their issues and reporting back to wider team.
- Flexibility in supporting launches and updates outside of normal hours, including emergency communications as required.
What you get from us:
Curve Games are always striving for excellence in what we do as a business, but also as an employer. We believe supporting our staff in a positive way, not only ensures productivity is high but encourages them to keep happy and healthy.
We achieve this through creating a friendly and inclusive work environment balanced between in-person attendance in our office and by working from home. We also provide plenty of opportunities for social events and offering a range of wellbeing initiatives including mental health charter, charity talks and wellness contribution. This in turn allows our staff to feel comfortable and to be confident in supporting one another.
Other benefits we offer include:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Medicash (Health Cash Plan), including EAP, dental and optical.
- Discretionary bonus scheme (role dependant).
- Contributory pension scheme.
- Group Income Protection, Critical Illness and Life Assurance Cover.
- Ride2Work scheme
- Employee referral scheme
- Monthly wellness allowance
- Volunteering leave
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Long service leave
- Team lunches on Monday, Thursday, and Friday (Office).
