Gaming - Performance Marketing and Socials Intern

Location: Remote (Based in South Africa)

Type: Full time, 4 month paid internship

Pay: 200 ZAR/hour

Industry: Gaming/Marketing

The Virtual Athletics League (VAL) is looking for an ambitious and highly organised Performance Marketer and Socials intern to join our gaming marketing agency.

You’ll work directly with VAL’s leadership team across project management, creator partnerships, finance and sales, gaining hands-on experience in marketing for the games industry.

We’re looking for someone who is organised, commercially minded and proactive. You don’t need years of experience, we’re more interested in someone who can take ownership, communicate clearly and learn quickly.

Although this is a remote, South Africa based role, you’ll be expected to align part of your working day with US Mountain Time to collaborate with the wider team. You’ll need to commit to being available between 6pm-8pm South Africa time daily, with flexibility around how you structure the remainder of your 40 hour working week.

• You may be a great fit if you:
• Have a game design degree or other formal game development training
• Understand the gaming industry, its audiences and market trends.
• Understand gamers, creators and online communities
• Are highly organised, proactive and comfortable juggling multiple projects and clients
• Care about team culture, collaboration and building strong relationships
• Have an interest in game design or development, level design experience is a bonus but not essential.

We would welcome candidates from a range of backgrounds including: Business, MBA, Finance, Marketing, Management, Games or similar. Previous experience in marketing, gaming, creator/influencer campaigns or game development is a plus, but not required.

The Virtual Athletics League (VAL) is an early stage venture capital backed startup with the same network of investors who backed Tesla, Hotmail, and Skype. We work directly with Meta and have delivered projects across globally recognised IPs including Hello Kitty, NERF, The Walking Dead, Metro, Alien, and Hello Neighbor, alongside many others.

This four month internship is designed to provide significantly more responsibility and exposure than a traditional one. Due to the nature of a growing start up, interns aren’t limited to observation or administrative work, you’ll be involved in real industry projects, campaigns and business decisions. You’ll gain experience in project management, finance, creator management and influencer led marketing.

Our goal is to identify exceptional people who can move into full time opportunities at VAL or within the gaming industry following this internship.