Director of Esports Strategy

Nerd Street Gamers provides an opportunity for gamers to gain experience in competitive esports competitions, and they also are home to a community of like-minded amateur competitors. Our product offering includes facilities, event management, and broadcast production with an underlying software framework that ties it all together. In short, we're helping to build the infrastructure of esports. And we're looking for talented, high-energy team members who can collaborate in a professional-minded, high-paced environment.

We are looking for a Director of Esports Strategy, Commissioner of Champs based in the US that will help define competitive gaming initiatives and meet the needs of our players by maintaining a competitive gaming ecosystem with high transparency, efficiency, and integrity.

Essential Job Functions:

• Ensure that competitive rulesets and formats are comprehensive, clear, and consistently applied across all sanctioned tournaments.
• Scale operations to support the growth of the Championship Series.
• Partner with internal cross-functional teams.
• Communicate rules verbally and in written format to resolve competitor disputes, provide insights to spectators, and when necessary apply penalties or corrective action.
• Forge meaningful relationships with online communities to gather feedback, identify needs, and message guidelines and obligations.
• Provide comprehensive reports to stakeholders on feedback, issues, concerns, trends, and insights within the community of competitive players.
• Increase competitor satisfaction.

Non-Essential Job Functions:

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

EEO Statement

All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience managing esports or major organized sports programs, teams, or tournaments
• Intermediate understanding of esports production.
• Experience designing event series for large-scale operators.
• Understanding of typical esports events P&L.
• Excellent communication (written & verbal) and presentation skills
• Highly organized and motivated.
• Experience at a gaming publisher.
• Participatory experience in the esports ecosystem as a player.

Benefits

• Health Care (medical, vision, dental)
• Short and Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• Generous PTO and Holiday Availability
• Parental Leave
• Equity Eligibility
• Opportunity for Growth