Principal Marketing Manager, Marathon (Contract)

Required

• 7+ Years experience leading integrated marketing, product marketing, or GTM strategy within gaming, technology, entertainment, or another complex consumer business; experience operating at a global scale is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional launches or live-service marketing programs with meaningful audience and business impact.
• Deep familiarity with game franchises and online player communities, ideally within first-person shooters, extraction shooters, or live-service games.
• Strong understanding of the full marketing mix, including brand, product marketing, community, communications, creative, partnerships, lifecycle marketing, organic channels, paid media, and player acquisition.
• Ability to translate product strategy, audience insight, and business goals into clear GTM choices, integrated plans, and investment recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, align teams without direct authority, and resolve competing priorities across complex organizations.
• Strong analytical and commercial judgment, with experience defining success measures and using performance data, research, and player insight to improve strategy and execution.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with the ability to make complex topics clear, compelling, and actionable for executive and cross-functional audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to create clarity across multiple complex workstreams, establish priorities and decision points, and drive stakeholders toward timely resolution.
• Sound judgment and adaptability when navigating changing product plans, emerging player sentiment, competitive disruption, or other high-pressure business challenges.
• Nice-to-Have Skills
• Deep familiarity with Marathon, its evolving player community, and the broader competitive landscape.