JOB DESCRIPTION:

As the Asia Communications Director for Activision and Blizzard, you will lead our Asia region comms efforts across Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, South East Asia, Korea, Japan, and China. This role will work with communications teams to deliver world class PR and creator programs across the region. This role will facilitate region-specific communications, campaigns and events relating to Activision and Blizzard gaming franchises. This role will oversee communications in all Activision and Blizzard markets in Asia, coordinating across regional teams, local agency teams, publishing and marketing partners in line with the global comms strategy.
This position will give you the opportunity to thrive in a challenging, creative environment, and grow with a strong and supportive team who are committed to excellence at every level.
The ideal candidate is a collaborative but self-motivated leader with a proven track record of developing best in class communications strategies and executions that align to a global comms strategy and a larger integrated marketing plan. The role requires very strong communication and critical thinking skills, the ability to work constructively with stakeholders at different levels across regions/teams, and to directly lead, manage, and set priorities for a geographically distributed team. You must thrive on high pressure deadlines and be able to consistently achieve results on time and within budget. Industry experience is highly desirable coupled with an intricate knowledge of the nuances across the region.

• Lead the development of the Asia communications holistic strategic plan that ties to the overarching company and region objectives focused on Activision and Blizzard franchises and games.
• Provide expertise on how to build engaged audiences through delivering culturally relevant compelling content for players that we already know and players we are yet to meet.
• Support and execute on major events including participation in regionally-relevant industry events such as Tokyo Games Show.
• Direct, coach and mentor team members to develop world class executions, including budget management, reporting, prioritization across all facets of communications.
• Select and manage overarching relationships with agency partners to build programs that fulfill the communications strategic plan and add to gaining commercial success for the franchises.
• Stay up to date on all gaming, esports, media & entertainment news, monitor competitors and other industry leaders for learnings, insights and best practices.
• Partner closely with Microsoft communications teams incl. Xbox, Bethesda, and King to ensure alignment across media outreach, events and key comms beats, as well as providing regional and/or Activision or Blizzard-specific perspective, where needed.