Slingshot is looking to hire a Marketing Manager with particular responsibility for online / digitally driven marketing efforts, to work across our slate of feature film releases. If you know about us, you,ll know that we are committed to digital innovation in every possible way. If you don’t know us, worth rooting around this blog before you apply. The ideal candidate would combine the following attributes:

(a) ON-LINE and QUANTITATIVE SKILLS

• A social media native; having personal comfort with MySpace / Facebook / Bebo / Blogger / Twitter / del.icios / etc and other social media platforms and etiquette.
• A blogger, or at least an avid Blog reader
• Have enough of an anal, analytical bent to be comfortable with the underlying principals of databases, email lists, RSS, google adwords etc etc.

(b) GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT MARKETING understanding

• Marketing 101 either academically or on the job or both
• Experience of marketing culturally complex product
• Understanding of basic marketing processes

(c) FILM NERD

• with enough personality to handle film people.
• Some experience of film development / production / distribution

(d) WORK PROFILE

• 3-5 years at either: a studio, an agency, the marketing or digital division of an entertainment company
• chic-geek.

Deal – 3 month trial, full gig thereafter. Salary dependent on experience + performance related bonus. Start-date, pretty much now.

Contact me on arvind@…. with CV and email.

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