Facebook To Hire Head Of Games Partnerships

Facebook is advertising a new job that demonstrates the growing importance of games to the social networking site. The ad is for a head of games partnerships to spearhead Facebook's external relationships with games developers. TechCrunch reports that Dan Rose, vice president of partnerships and platform marketing, posted the job ad earlier today. The text of the ad says: "Facebook is seeking a leader for our Strategic Partner Development team to build and manage a high performance team, develop and enhance successful partnerships and influence internal and external partners and industry stakeholders in the Gaming industry. This job requires high levels of creativity and strategic thinking, as you'll be called upon to help both large, incumbent gaming companies as well as venture-backed gaming start-ups develop innovative social gaming experiences building on Facebook Platform. This team is the face of Facebook to our external gaming partner relationships and serves as the primary point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders. You should be as comfortable pitching and negotiating deals with partners as working cross-functionally with colleagues in Product, Engineering, Sales, Operations, Finance, Marketing, and Legal to create new social experiences that meet the strategic objectives of partners and Facebook. You should also expect to handle day-to-day operations and partnership management with many of our most important gaming partners, develop and execute on strategic partner initiatives and advocate internally and externally for our social gaming partners." There are now 200 million people playing games on Facebook every month and 24 games have more than 10 million users per month. Gaming is also a growing source of revenue for Facebook, because of efforts to push Facebook Credits, a common virtual currency that could be used across all games and applications on the site. Facebook gets a 30% cut of micro-transactions using Credits. If you are thinking of applying for this job or one of the other 32 open positions in Palo Alto, New York or London, you might want to read up on all the great perks at Facebook first. The company was recently recognized as the best tech employer in the U.S., beating Google.

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Facebook To Hire Head Of Games Partnerships

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