We’re passionate about real-world, social, mobile games that inspire players to explore the world together! We are seeking a Director to lead our social media team in their effort to build and grow engaging online communities. In this role you'll define digital strategies that align with our organizational objectives, illustrating how they contribute to our broader business goals. You'll bring a mix of creative vision, critical thinking, and leadership excellence to manage digital campaigns, team dynamics, and cross-departmental collaborations.

Responsibilities

• Growth Strategy: Drive the comprehensive content and channel strategy, with a focus on growing reach beyond existing audiences. This includes proactively identifying and integrating the latest audience insights to conceptualize and implement high-performing, hands-on campaigns that are crafted to generate significant social sharing, develop new trends, and build cultural relevancy for Pokémon GO among new and target demographics.
• Leadership: Lead and mentor the team, encouraging an environment of teamwork, creativity, and continuous improvement while also representing the team in leadership meetings to articulate the team's strategies, achievements, and needs.
• Analytics and Reporting: Define, develop, and deliver a comprehensive reporting suite to executives and senior leaders across the company that clearly articulates the impact, return on investment, and business value of social media efforts, using data to advise and support our strategic marketing and user acquisition direction.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with other marketing leaders to develop and implement successful omnichannel marketing strategies that integrate social media in significant and impactful ways, while also identifying and implementing efficiencies between functions to improve effectiveness.
• Required in-office 3 days each week.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading social media and digital marketing teams, ideally in the mobile gaming or digital advertising industries.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Social Media, Marketing, Advertising, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of social growth strategies and how owned and operated channels can help drive performance in user acquisition.
• Strong background in both ATL and BTL marketing techniques, with specific examples of past campaigns where integration led to measurable success.
• Excellent communication and social skills, with the ability to work effectively with creatives, agencies, and internal teams at all levels.
• Highly analytical with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Experience working with third party IP, operating within strict brand standards, and navigating brand feedback and approval processes.
• Passion for mobile gaming and a deep understanding of the gaming audience.
• Plus if you have a strong familiarity and knowledge of the Pokémon and Pokémon GO brands.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to tackle practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others.

We are seeking a Senior Director of Live Game for Pokémon GO—a globally beloved game reaching hundreds of millions of players each year. As Senior Director of Live Game, you will define and lead the end-to-end live operations strategy, ensuring Pokémon GO continues to thrive as a dynamic, evolving, and culturally relevant experience for years to come.

You will oversee the health of the live game business, manage cross-functional teams responsible for events, content, systems, and player engagement, and serve as the connective tissue between Product, Marketing, The Pokémon Company, and Scopely’s central platform teams. This role demands a deep understanding of live operations at global scale, data-driven decision making, and the creative vision to continually surprise and delight our players.

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

What You Will Do

• Lead the Live Game Organization: Oversee all aspects of Pokémon GO’s live operations, including event design, in-game content cadence, economy health, seasonal frameworks, and feature integration.
• Define and Deliver Strategy: Partner with the Product Management and Data Science leadership to set long-term goals for engagement, retention, and monetization, grounded in both player insight and business priorities.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Build scalable processes for planning, executing, and measuring live events and content updates across global regions.
• Collaborate with The Pokémon Company (TPC and TPCi): Align on brand, IP integration, and content approvals to deliver authentic Pokémon experiences.
• Champion the Player Experience: Maintain a deep empathy for player sentiment and advocate for healthy game balance and fun at every stage of planning.
• Mentor and Inspire Teams: Lead a multidisciplinary global team of Producers and Product Managers to deliver world-class live content.
• Own Business Health Metrics: Regularly track and report on KPIs to executive leadership.
• Foster Innovation: Identify new ways to keep Pokémon GO fresh, social, and relevant in an ever-evolving market, leveraging the breadth of existing systems and content in the game.
  
  

What You Will Need

• 12+ years of experience in live service game development, including 5+ years in a senior leadership or director-level role overseeing operations for large-scale global titles.
• Proven success managing complex, cross-functional teams in a live service environment.
• Deep understanding of player engagement loops, economy management, and event-driven retention strategies.
• Strong analytical mindset with comfort interpreting data to guide creative and operational decisions.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across disciplines and partner organizations.
• Passion for Pokémon and Scopely’s mission to connect people through real-world play.
• Experience working with major IP partners is strongly preferred.
• Fluency in Japanese is a plus.

Do you want to own the web experience for tens of millions of players, driving revenue and building community for the world’s leading location-based games? Join Niantic Games, now part of the Scopely family, as a Product Manager on the Player Experience Ecosystem (PXE) team. You will lead, innovate, and build outstanding D2C experiences across our suite of products, including Pokémon GO, Monster Hunter Now, and Pikmin Bloom, with a focus on the Web Store and Campfire.

Responsibilities:

• Identify D2C Opportunities: Partner with Game Producers and Designers to find friction points or engagement opportunities where a D2C channel (Web Store, Game Site, Campfire) can provide a unique solution.
• Drive the D2C Roadmap: Create the vision and strategy for how our web properties enhance the core player journey, optimizing for revenue and community engagement.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Act as the bridge between Platform and Game Teams, translating "Game Design Intent" into "Platform Requirements" and vice versa.
• Execution & Experimentation: Define and iterate based on success metrics, e.g. D2C KPIs (Web Store conversion, community engagement, retention/DAU).
• Leverage the Ecosystem: Partner with Scopely Central teams to adopt and adapt D2C and platform technologies for Niantic’s location-based games..

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Product Management experience, preferably in Gaming, Consumer Mobile, or e-Commerce/Web Platforms.
• 2+ years of professional experience in data analysis, using data to inform product decisions.
• Passion for Consumer UX: A deep understanding of UX and an intuition for what makes an interaction delightful.
• Technical Fluency: Understand the fundamentals of web services, payment systems, and API design. Coding is not required.
• Adaptive Learner: Proven track record of picking up new domains quickly. Comfortable tackling undefined problems.
• Ownership: Experience managing trade-offs between creative desires and technical reality to achieve a shared outcome.

Plus If...

• Experience launching features in a live service game on web or mobile (e.g., e-commerce, social features, community).
• Hands-on experience with community or content management platforms.
• Experience managing platform services that have direct end-user UI components (e.g., Social, Identity, Payments).

Scopely is a global gaming company whose mission is to inspire play every day. Niantic (a division of Scopely) inspires people to explore the world together through products that promote exercise, exploration, and real-world social interaction.

We’re seeking a strategic, impact-driven Staff Data Scientist to partner with Marketing and Product. You will lead scalable measurement frameworks, predictive models, and AI-powered analytics to shape user acquisition, engagement, monetization, and long-term player value.

As a senior IC, you’ll define data strategy across marketing and product analytics, elevate experimentation and causal inference, and leverage modern AI tools to accelerate insights and decision-making. You’ll collaborate with Marketing, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Executive Leadership to drive measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

Marketing & Product Analytics

• Design scalable measurement frameworks across acquisition, retention, monetization, and lifecycle marketing.
• Build and productionize advanced models (LTV, churn, propensity, incrementality, MMM) to inform investment and roadmap decisions.
• Partner with Marketing and Finance to optimize budget allocation and ROI.

Experimentation & Causal Inference

• Raise experimentation standards (A/B testing, quasi-experimental methods, incrementality).
• Translate privacy-constrained attribution environments (e.g., SKAdNetwork, aggregated reporting) into actionable insights.

Data Engineering & Infrastructure

• Architect and maintain scalable ETL pipelines for marketing and product data (e.g., Airflow, Composer).
• Design optimized data models and warehouse schemas for high-performance analytics.
• Build reusable data assets, feature stores, and modular analytics frameworks.

AI-Driven Analytics

• Apply modern AI/ML tools (LLMs, coding assistants, automated workflows) to accelerate modeling and analysis.
• Integrate AI into analytics workflows to improve speed, quality, and reproducibility.
• Promote technical excellence and responsible AI adoption.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data science supporting Marketing, Growth, UA, or Product Analytics (gaming/mobile preferred).
• Proven experience building production-grade predictive models (LTV, churn, propensity, MMM) that drive impact.
• Strong expertise in experimentation, causal inference, and marketing measurement.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills, including scalable ETL and production workflows.
• Experience with BI tools (e.g., Looker) and enabling self-serve analytics.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive executive-level adoption.

Plus If…

• End-to-end delivery experience (telemetry, QA, ETL, modeling, deployment, dashboards).
• Experience with large-scale datasets.
• Familiarity with BigQuery, Composer, and Airflow.

Scopely is a global gaming company whose mission is to inspire play every day. Niantic (a division of Scopely)’s mission is to inspire people to explore the world, together. We build products that inspire exercise, exploration, and social in-person interaction.

We are seeking a Full Stack Engineer to craft web-based applications that connect millions of people around real-world activities. We seek engineers with strong technical background, great execution, and self-starter mentality. The ideal candidate loves to jump into the unknown, clarify ambiguities, quickly learn from failures, and break down vague ideas into concrete tasks. 

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement web features in Javascript. 
• Build well-designed, reusable UI components that can be shared across Niantic’s web applications. 
• Collaborate between web, design, and product teams to ensure the goals of the product are aligned with the delivered feature or service.
• Participate in code reviews, write unit tests, and conduct troubleshooting to ensure uptime for live systems.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field. 
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience, 5+ years for senior level candidates. 
• Proficiency in JavaScript concepts like asynchronous programming, closure types.
• Familiar with server-side technologies, such as Node, Java, or Golang. 

Plus If... 

• Experience building sophisticated single page web applications, particularly mobile-friendly ones. 
• Experience building websites that are cross-device and browser compatible. 
• Experience building web applications involving manipulation of geospatial, customer management, or analytics data.
• Experience with React and Next.js for high-performance web development.
• Proficiency in TypeScript to ensure code robustness and scalability.
• Familiarity with GraphQL and Relay.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading projects.

Senior Product Marketing Manager, US Pikmin Bloom

Pikmin Bloom, a geo-location based mobile game developed by Niantic, launched globally in October 2021, and has been steadily growing its user base - it now has millions of users worldwide. For wandering and spending time outside, users are rewarded with items that can either grow or feed the curious creatures called Pikmin introduced in the console game by Nintendo. Pikmin Bloom is the largest mobile game for the Pikmin IP.

Niantic is looking for a Senior Manager, Product Marketing to drive the product marketing growth strategy and execution in the United States for Pikmin Bloom. As the marketing lead, you will lead a newly formed team and be responsible for all aspects of marketing efforts across this region. The ideal candidate has an existing passion for the product and is able to juggle multiple responsibilities.

As this is a global product, you will need to collaborate with teammates from around the world to ensure consistency and accuracy across all regions. In particular, you will work closely with teammates and stakeholders based in Japan.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for go-to-market execution for all marketing campaigns for Pikmin Bloom in the US.
• Find opportunities for growing the business (# of users, revenue) and take appropriate actions with a data-driven focus on results.
• Champion new feature launches, define the strategy for, and execute marketing campaigns in close coordination with internal cross-functional partners including Product Management, Engineering, Game Design, Business Development/Partnerships, Operations/Customer Support, Marketing, and Comms/Public Relations teams, external partners, and also external marketing/PR agencies.
• Track and work towards goals including: consumer awareness, user acquisition, DAU, WAU, ARPU and user retention.
• Track and interpret product and marketing analytics; suggest improvements or revise marketing strategies, where relevant.
• Be responsible for managing the marketing budget for this title throughout the US region.
• Conduct return on investment analyses on marketing campaigns and apply takeaways to future programs.
• Have strong enthusiasm for crafting and producing impactful experiences for fans. This includes real-world events and digital promotions. Show dedication and take initiative to achieve the business goal.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years experience in marketing, gaming, entertainment, or consumer technology products.
• Experience developing product positioning strategies that factor in market and competitive dynamics.
• Paid media campaign strategy development and management, including creative development, agency selection, media buying, campaign tracking and optimization.
• Social media marketing; familiarity with community management & engagement strategies a plus.
• Experience working on highly cross-functional teams with the capability to guide complex projects involving multiple partners and priorities.
• Experience in leading partnerships - close collaboration with business partners and/or IP holders.
• Ability to show and communicate your capacity to guide and handle third-party alliances, involving agencies and other vendors.
• Strong initiative, and outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with experience in developing and delivering executive presentations.
• Passion for analyzing products, customers and market dynamics.
• Strategic problem solver with strong leadership, management, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle multifaceted situations with little advance notice.

Plus if you are/have...

• An avid player of Niantic games, especially Pikmin Bloom.
• Business experience in an international environment.
• Experience as a Product Marketing Manager.
• Game industry experience.
• Able to speak/write/read Japanese.

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's products inspire outdoor exploration, exercise, and meaningful social interaction.

Originally formed at Google in 2011, we became an independent company in 2015, and were subsequently. Acquired by Scopely in early 2025, one of the most successful mobile game companies in the world. Some of our current consumer titles include record-breaking geo-location based game Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving!

The Pokémon GO team is seeking a Creative Production Manager, User Acquisition to build our next-generation advertising creative pipeline. In this role, you will lead all aspects of the UA creative process from concept to completion, ensuring our ads meet brand guidelines and quality standards. You will leverage advanced AI tools to streamline operations and deep dive into data analytics in order to produce high-performing creatives. This role collaborates with artists, agencies and other creative professionals to integrate all of the learnings and strategies required for successful performance marketing campaigns.

Responsibilities

Lead the creative production process, collaborating with internal teams and external agencies, from ideation to final delivery, ensuring all assets are optimized for performance and align with our brand

• Manage production timelines, setting workback schedules, milestone check-ins, stakeholder reviews and approval cycles with our brand partner
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with artists and agencies, keeping lines of communication open for quick decision-making and feedback loops
• Review workflow process and leverage AI tools to find ways to improve productivity, eliminate repetitive tasks, reduce errors and increase the quality of work
• Own the project management process: assigning projects, collecting relevant details, unblocking dependencies, providing feedback, and looping in stakeholders in a timely manner
• Manage the UA creative budget, tracking vendor output and proactively source, evaluate and onboard new vendors as needed, ensuring they meet quality standards and strategic goals
• Analyze campaign performance data to isolate creative variables, create reports to share and use these insights to guide future winning creative strategies
• Partner closely with the Performance Marketing team to ensure creative strategies align with broader user acquisition goals, contributing regularly to weekly meetings
• Assign gameplay screen recordings to capture artists, troubleshoot and unblock issues by working closely with cross-functional teams
• Perform quality control on design deliverables, ensuring accuracy for sizing and localization requirements
• Required 3 in-office days per week

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in a creative production or creative development role, ideally in the mobile gaming or digital advertising industries
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Marketing, Advertising, Graphic Design, or a related field
• Ability to use AI tools to solve workflow bottlenecks and increase output efficiency
• Strong understanding of user acquisition strategies and how creative assets drive performance in mobile gaming
• Proven track record of managing complex projects from conception to completion while optimizing workflow processes
• Experience working with high-profile third-party IP and navigating strict brand standards and approval processes
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and proficiency in project management software (JIRA, Asana, Wrike)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others
• Plus if you have a strong familiarity and knowledge of the Pokémon and Pokémon GO brands

Scopely is looking for a Senior Director, Associate General Counsel – Product & Privacy to join our legal team in Culver City, CA or San Francisco, CA on a hybrid basis.  This individual will be a part of the global Product & Privacy legal function, leading the company’s compliance strategy for privacy and data security and reporting to Scopely’s VP, Product, Privacy & Litigation. 

Key responsibilities include managing Scopely’s privacy and data security compliance programs worldwide as well as providing privacy guidance to diverse teams for creating globally-compliant games, marketing strategies, and game platform technologies.

What You Will Do

• Strategically drive Scopely’s global privacy and data protection program in partnership with cross-functional team leaders, embodying Scopely’s privacy-by-design mindset
• Own and scale all global privacy compliance tooling and records in strong partnership with InfoSec and compliance leaders, conducting global data mapping, vendor reviews, global training, and managing internal- and external-facing notices and policies
• Own global privacy and data security regulatory compliance programs for all Scopely products throughout their entire lifecycle, including compliance with GDPR, CCPA and other state privacy laws
• Provide strategic advice directly to business teams on emerging privacy and data security laws and their business impact
• Advise Product, Engineering, InfoSec, Compliance, Data Analytics, Business Development, Marketing, Customer Support, People, Advertising, User Acquisition, and other teams on legal and regulatory issues related to game development and data collection and use
• Work with product teams to review products, features, in-game events, marketing, adtech, user acquisition, promotions, platform technology, and provide practical advice to manage legal and regulatory risk

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum 12+ years of combined relevant experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department, preferably working within gaming, media, or other technology, with in-house
  gaming experience strongly preferred
• A member in good standing of the California Bar or another bar association with the ability to register as in-house counsel in California
• Significant experience advising on legal and regulatory considerations in the video game industry with a strong focus on privacy and data protection frameworks (e.g., GDPR,CCPA, COPPA, Privacy Shield, etc.)
• Experience working with global teams cross-functionally and across time zones, with management experience strongly preferred
• Attention to detail, problem-solving mentality, and ability to follow through in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Strong academic credentials
• Experience and comfort balancing legal risks with business strategy
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multitask and re-prioritize based on changing needs
• Sense of humor and a passion for mobile gaming

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