Riot Video games Communications staff works throughout video games, esports, and leisure to inform compelling tales, construct belief with our communities, and create significant moments for gamers all over the world.
In EMEA, the League of Legends Regional Communications staff brings these tales to life throughout a numerous media panorama, working intently with international groups, regional stakeholders, native markets, and company companions.
As an EMEA Public Relations Strategist, you’ll work beneath the supervision of the EMEA Communications Strategists to assist the coordination and execution of PR methods and techniques for League of Legends throughout EMEA, with a selected give attention to LoL Esports. Your scope will span each Tier 1 and Tier 2 ecosystems and their key moments all year long.
Working intently with the EMEA League of Legends staff, you’ll assist translate communications methods into high-quality, coordinated PR activations that resonate with media and gamers throughout the area.
Past esports, additionally, you will assist the EMEA Communications staff throughout the broader League of Legends ecosystem. This consists of day-to-day press workplace operations, pan-EMEA outreach round main League of Legends IP beats, media focusing on and pitching, press supplies and copywriting, spokesperson preparation, and communications reporting.
The function is designed for a communications skilled who combines robust executional abilities with glorious data of the media panorama, and is comfy working on the middle of a fast-moving regional press operation.
This shall be a 12 month contract function and relies in Berlin, Germany, and requires the candidate to be situated in Berlin, this function is predicted to begin in January 2027.
Tasks:
- Coordinate and execute PR plans for League of Legends and LoL Esports throughout EMEA.
- Associate with EMEA Communications Strategists and the League of Legends Pubsports staff to translate communications methods into efficient regional PR execution.
- Drive media outreach round key LoL Esports and broader League of Legends beats, together with proactive pitching, media alternatives, interviews, and inbound press requests.
- Assist the day-to-day League of Legends EMEA press workplace, together with newsroom coordination, information distribution, media focusing on, and pan-EMEA outreach round precedence IP beats.
- Construct and keep robust relationships with related esports, gaming, and broader endemic media throughout EMEA.
- Draft and adapt high-quality communications supplies, together with press releases, official articles, pitches, media statements, briefing paperwork, and spokesperson supplies.
- Coordinate and supervise press operations on the Riot Video games Area in Berlin, guaranteeing constant media servicing and execution.
- Observe PR exercise and outcomes, guaranteeing high-quality reporting and surfacing related insights and learnings to EMEA stakeholders.
Required {Qualifications}:
- PR & communications expertise: 2-4 years of expertise in public relations, communications, media relations, or a associated discipline, with hands-on expertise executing communications campaigns and press-office exercise.
- Media panorama data: A robust understanding of gaming, leisure, sports activities, or know-how media throughout EMEA and the way completely different tales can resonate with completely different audiences.
- Media relations: Expertise working straight with journalists, managing media requests, creating focused media lists, and conducting proactive press outreach.
- Wonderful written communications: Robust written English and the flexibility to draft, edit, and adapt high-quality communications supplies for various media audiences and codecs.
- Undertaking coordination: Robust organizational abilities and the flexibility to coordinate a number of communications workstreams, stakeholders, deadlines, and company companions concurrently.
- Collaborative working fashion: Comfy working with communications strategists, esports groups, international companions, businesses, spokespeople, and different stakeholders throughout completely different nations and features.
Most well-liked {Qualifications}:
- Data of League of Legends, its neighborhood, esports ecosystem, and aggressive panorama.
- Earlier expertise working in gaming, esports, sports activities, or leisure communications.
- Expertise supporting main occasions or live-event PR operations.
- Expertise coordinating PR businesses or exterior communications companions.
- Expertise working throughout a number of EMEA markets or inside a world communications group.
For this function, you may discover success by way of craft experience, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of gamers. We shall be your previous research, expertise, and your private relationship with video games. Should you embody participant empathy and care about gamers’ experiences, this may very well be your function!
At Riot Video games, we put players first. That mission drives each resolution in our quest to create video games and experiences that make it higher to be a participant. Whether or not you’re working straight on a brand new player-facing expertise otherwise you’re supporting the corporate as a complete, everybody at Riot is a part of our mission. And identical to in our video games, we’re higher after we work collectively. Our purpose is to create collaborative groups the place you might be empowered to convey your distinctive perspective on a regular basis. If that sounds just like the form of place you wish to work, we’re wanting ahead to your software.