Global Brand & Marketing Director

As Global Brand & Marketing Director you will lead Crytek’s global marketing function across brand, creative, performance, and lifecycle, reporting to the Chief Publishing Officer. You will own how Hunt: Showdown 1896 and unannounced projects are positioned, launched, and grown in market. 

You will lead the marketing team and build the creative engine and operating model that drive how Crytek’s games meet their players — campaigns with craft and conviction that earn attention, sustain communities, and translate brand ambition into commercial outcomes. You will partner with publishing leadership to keep marketing, communications, and product working as one connected system. 

This role demands creative judgement, marketing craft, and the rigor to drive brand ambition into measurable acquisition, retention, and revenue growth. 

• Define Crytek’s global marketing strategy across brand, creative, paid media, and CRM

• Lead global positioning and creative direction for Hunt: Showdown 1896 and unannounced projects across all channels  

• Own the marketing P&L, channel mix, and KPIs (CAC, LTV, ROAS, retention curves), and report performance to the CPO  

• Lead a high-performing in-house creative engine: art direction, video, design, and campaign operations capable of supporting the portfolio and surge launches  

• Concentrate creative, paid media, and CRM firepower during major launch windows  

• Partner with publishing product leadership to translate product strategy into season plans, beats, and campaigns  

• Champion AI fluency across research, analytics, and operational workflows, using it to amplify the work, so the teams' time goes to creative judgement and taste.  

• Mentor and grow the marketing team, raising the bar on craft, speed, and accountability  

Your professional development is important to us, so we have laid out a career plan to help you progress towards your goals and objectives. 

 

We offer a relocation budget and full coverage of flights to Frankfurt for you and your family. 

You can expect extensive assistance with visa, work permits, and communication with authorities during the relocation process, as well as help settling into Germany (e.g. setting up appointments with banks, government agencies, schools, landlords, finding apartments etc.).

 

To help you get settled, we provide you with a fully furnished company apartment during your first three months in Frankfurt.

 

Discover Frankfurt by bus, tram and metro – free of charge.

 

A healthy body is a healthy mind. We offer a membership at the premium gym chain Fitness First in Germany. Work out, join group fitness classes, or relax in the wellness facilities.

 

We’ve recently moved into a brand-new, modern office located in the heart of Frankfurt. Our new workspace is designed to inspire creativity and collaboration, with open areas, quiet zones, and top-tier facilities — all just steps away from public transport, restaurants, bars and cultural hotspots.

 

Hybrid Working
We believe in the value of in-person collaboration while also supporting flexibility. Our hybrid working model includes three days per week in the office and the option to work remotely up to two days per week, unless role-specific requirements or business needs require you to be on site.

 

We’re building a workplace where everyone belongs. We welcome people of all backgrounds and identities and are proud to be a truly global team, with employees from over 42 countries contributing their ideas, cultures, and perspectives every day.

 

Understanding the local culture will make your stay abroad more enjoyable, and Crytek supports that by offering German language courses for you and your family. 

  

Join us on our exciting company events, including new starter breakfasts, summer and winter parties, our annual trip to Gamescom in Cologne, and many more!

 

At our Frankfurt office you can enjoy 24 days of vacation per year, and every 2 years you get 1 more (up to a maximum of 28 days). You will also have on average 10 public holidays on top of the days you take off.