Fanatec is looking to expand their workforce and is asking sim racers for help with recommending suitable people with a quite unique idea.
Sim Racers who can suggest a suitable candidate to the two roles below can earn a 1000??? voucher for the Fanatec shop if their recommendation ends up getting the job.
The details on the required positions can be found below, more information on Fanatec’s quite unique headhunting-scheme can be found here.
Job Descriptions
Community & PR Manager
Responsibilities:
- Manage forum on Fanatec.com in order to grow the community and increase customer satisfaction
- Find and supervise moderators
- Post FAQ and manage feedback to the Support team
- Create forum rules and make sure that they are followed
- Manage social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, etc.
- Create content and campaigns for all social media channels
- Monitor international sim racing forums and guide customers to get support
- Manage community reviews and tests
- Provide ideas from the community to the product development team
- Helping to create, develop, and manage all proactive and reactive press opportunities (print and online)
- Handling of sponsored teams
- Press release and newsletter writing and dissemination
- International media outreach
Requirements:
- Decent knowledge of sim racing equipment and racing simulations
- Fluent spoken and written English with excellent grammar is mandatory. German or other languages are a plus
- Strategic thinker, with excellent public relations skills, solid and cooperative media relationships, and knowledge of the evolving digital and social media fields
- Should have strong writing and organizational skills, excellent people skills, plus the ability to always keep calm and proffessional.
- Bachelor’s degree is not required but a plus.
- Two or more years??? experience in an agency or corporate environment
Product & Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Summarize and update specifications
- Communicate with senior product managment about spec changes
- Create and manage project plans
- Follow up with internal and external project ressources
- Optimize project end dates and try to permanently keep or reduce the critical path of a project
- Manage hand over from R&D to production
- Get and check quotations for components or complete products
- Create content for manuals and website descriptions
- Arrange tests with internal and external betatesters
- Support initial production stages before mass production
- Interact with PR and Marketing team to co-ordinate launch campaigns
- Report to management about project status on a weekly basis
Requirements:
- Decent knowledge of sim racing equipment and racing simulations
- Superior project management, communication and presentation skills. Must be proficient in MS Office suite (specifically in MS Project, Excel, Word and Visio).
- Extensive experience of full life cycle projects.
- Highly organized and attentive to detail
- 1-2+ years of experience in product and/or project management
- Fluent spoken and written English is mandatory. German or other languages are a plus
