Profile of a Social Gaming Head:

About Us:

Contests2win group is a specialized \’interactive marketing\’ organization that leverages the power of the Internet and Wireless mediums to render \’never done before\’ promotions for world class brands. Our own website is www.contests2win.com and the mobile2win business can be checked out at www.mobile2win.com

We work with over 300 world class brands - typically the top Fortune 500!

Our partners with whom we work in India for joint promos are MSN ( Hotmail - Messenger), Yahoo, Barista, Domino\’s, Jet Airways, McDonald\’s and all the mobile operators!

Our investors are News Corp - Softbank - ICICI and Siemens.

Position:

Social Gaming Head

Reporting into:

Alok Kejriwal (CEO) – dotted line reporting into Mahesh Khambadkone (CTO and co-founder)

Working in line with:

Technology Manager – who will help in all tech functions including handling of external vendors and in-house teams.
Production – who will co-ordinate efforts between game producers.

Job Descriptor:

We need someone who understands multi-player gaming and is totally immersed and entrenched in the social media (read – SNS sites like Orkut/Facebook/Hi5/Meebo/Bebo etc). The candidate will lead the mutli-player gaming apps business that games2win is very keen on building, specifically leveraging SNS media. The key job functions will be:
• Regularly researching into all the SNS websites, to understand directions and statistics : which gaming apps are doing well and which are not, and generating a ‘best practices’ for the games team
• Defining core game idea and concept. This must be defined sufficiently for the game producers to work on and build on the concept.
• Over time, defining multi-player game products that G2W runs, which have SNS extensions.
• Working with the game producers and tech teams (we will assemble some of the games from outside vendors) and becoming the owner of the complete game delivery process
• Approving budgets for development
• Working with the SNS website partners we have and getting their inputs on our apps
• Establishing new SNS partners for deployment
• Measuring app performances and reporting the same to the internal team and management

Salaries and ESOP’s

Games2win likes to meet candidates and then offer them compensation basis their experience and passion

Contact – mahesh@games2win.com

This post was submitted by Dinesh Gopalakrishnan.