Google Looking For Games Merchandising Manager, Google Play at Gurugram, India Full Time

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience in a mobile Games or Apps focused role for merchandising, marketing, or partnerships role in an online commerce or digital content business.

• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years of experience working in function or a company focused on mobile gaming.

• Experience in gaming industry and/or affinity for mobile gaming.

• Marketing expertise in India.

• Ability to analyze research or performance data and apply that analysis to optimize merchandising strategy.

• Ability to work with partners to develop co-promotion or cross-promotion strategies and campaigns.

• Ability to advise on strategies and product requirements to enhance merchandising capabilities.

The Global Merchandising Team owns content programming within the Play Store across all regions and verticals (Games, Apps, Movies and TV and Books). As a Games Merchandising Manager for Google Play, you will impact users everyday by owning merchandising efforts end-to-end for the Games vertical within your market(s).

You will be the expert on mobile games, user needs, and the local ecosystem. In this role, you will work with Merchandisers from other verticals on country strategy, Business Development on understanding needs of strategic partners, and Product and Engineering on supporting new platform capabilities. You’ll set the strategy for and execute against merchandising and retail promotions for the Games vertical, while continually analyzing performance metrics and optimizing the user experience.

Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

• Set markets merchandising strategy for the Games verticals and execute against the global plan for India.

• Research and build sources for information about new mobile games and trending games.

• Be an expert on multiple categories of mobile games.

• Analyze internal data, market research, and industry trends to select content to promote.

• Develop user insight for Games, including understanding of customer lifecycles and segments.

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