About the Role
Maze Theory is seeking a Community & Marketing Manager to lead community engagement and marketing efforts across their range of titles. This role balances 30% community management with 70% games marketing, focusing on growing and engaging the gaming community and supporting marketing initiatives for both self-published and third-party titles.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement strategies to grow, nurture, and engage the gaming community across platforms like Discord, forums, Reddit, and social media.
- Actively participate in discussions, responding to player inquiries and feedback promptly and professionally.
- Reply and maintain review scores across headset platforms.
- Organize and host community events, including AMAs, livestreams, contests, and in-game activities.
- Create engaging LinkedIn posts and grow industry leadership.
- Create news/blog posts across platform stores to drive awareness and conversion of apps.
- Create engaging, on-brand content for social media platforms, community channels, and newsletters.
- Work with development teams to ensure consistent messaging across communications.
- Produce weekly community reports detailing trends, player sentiment, and engagement metrics.
- Design marketing graphics to enhance social media content using Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign.
- Execute marketing strategies for both self-published and third-party published games.
- Collaborate with development teams to design and promote campaigns aligning with game releases, updates, and seasonal events.
- Contribute to game product lifecycles, including pre-launch, launch, and post-launch marketing activities.
- Manage the annual promotional calendar for games, ensuring consistent, strategic marketing support for the back catalogue.
- Collaborate with external partners, including influencers and media outlets, to promote games to target audiences.
- Monitor market trends, competitor activity, and industry developments to inform strategic marketing initiatives.
- A/B test Meta Data and Key Art across headset platforms to increase sale conversions.
- Create Key Art variations with internal assets.
- Update and maintain the Maze Theory Website.
- Set up store pages.
- Monitor community spaces to ensure a positive, safe, and inclusive environment, addressing disruptive behaviour and enforcing moderation policies.
- Actively gather player feedback on game features, updates, and issues, compiling reports to provide actionable insights to internal teams.
- Handle challenging situations such as game outages, bugs, or player dissatisfaction with empathy and transparency, collaborating with PR and customer support teams.
- Maintain and develop a bug testing program in Discord.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Proven experience in community management, particularly within the gaming industry.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a passion for video games and an understanding of gaming culture.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with content creation (copywriting, social posts, and basic video editing).
- Familiarity with analytics tools to measure community growth and engagement (e.g., Google Analytics, social media insights).
- Proficient in graphic design.
Skills
- Community management
- Games marketing
- Social media management (Discord, forums, Reddit, Twitter, Twitch)
- Content creation (copywriting, social posts, basic video editing)
- Graphic design (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
- Analytics tools (Google Analytics, social media insights)
- Community moderation
- Crisis management
- Marketing campaign execution
- Influencer collaboration
- Market trend monitoring
- A/B testing
- Website maintenance
- Store page setup
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote-first Studio
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Proven experience in community management
- Experience with content creation
- Familiarity with analytics tools
- Proficient in graphic design
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
Salary/Compensations
- £35- £40K
Benefits
- Unlimited holidays
- Private Healthcare with Vitality
- Working alongside a friendly, flexible, and highly talented team
- Opportunity to work on big-name IPs
About the Company
- Maze Theory is a leading game development studio renowned for creating immersive, narrative-driven games.
- Home to iconic franchises such as Doctor Who and Peaky Blinders, as well as the creators of the critically acclaimed mixed reality game ‘Infinite Inside’.
- Expanding portfolio includes both self-published and third-party published games.
Equal Opportunity
- To tell better stories and create inclusive experiences we welcome everyone, especially from under-represented people in our industry whose stories aren’t told often enough.
- At Saltwater Games we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive working environment, who you are will always deserve our consideration and recognition, and your application is welcome.
