Facebook最新的招聘启事显示，Facebook正在寻找一名“游戏合作伙伴负责人”。这表明，Facebook已经将游戏视作用户体验的核心部分。

根据Facebook的招聘启事，这一职位将负责“开发及加强成功的合作伙伴关系，并对游戏行业内部和外部合作伙伴，以及利益相关方施加影响”。Facebook合作伙伴和平台营销副总裁丹·罗斯(Dan Rose)发布了这则招聘启事的链接。

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Facebook上的游戏非常受欢迎，但由于Facebook迫使游戏开发商使用Facebook Credits虚拟货币，Facebook与一些游戏开发商之间的关系变得紧张。

近期，争夺游戏和开发商的竞争正越来越激烈。谷歌计划采用新的社交网络战略，有传闻称谷歌将推出新社交网站Google Me，而游戏将是其中的重要一部分。谷歌已经与Zynga进行合作，而后者的游戏给Facebook带来了巨大的流量和广告收入。

尼尔森一周前发布的报告显示，美国市场，在用户花费的时间方面，网络游戏已经超过电子邮件。此外有一半美国人都是网游玩家。

以下为Facebook的招聘启事：

Facebook正在为战略合作伙伴开发团队寻找一名负责人。该负责人将需要建立并管理高效的团队，开发并提升成功的合作关系，对游戏行业内部和外部的合作伙伴，以及利益相关方施加影响。这一职位需要较强的创新能力及战略思路，你可能需要同时帮助大型游戏公司以及由风险投资支持的、在 Facebook平台上开发创新的社交游戏体验的创业企业。这一团队是Facebook面向外部游戏合作伙伴的接口，也是Facebook与内部和外部利益相关方接触的主要负责者。你需要习惯于与合作伙伴洽谈业务，并跨职能地与产品、工程、销售、运营、财务、营销和法务等部门同时合作，以打造新的社交体验，满足合作伙伴和 Facebook的战略目标。你还需要与我们多家重要的游戏合作伙伴一起，负责日常运营和合作伙伴管理，开发并执行战略合作伙伴项目，在内部和外部支持我们的社交游戏合作伙伴。

If there was any doubt before, it’s clear now that Facebook is embracing the fact that games are a core part of its experience, and it’s taking its relationship with gaming companies very seriously. The company has recently posted a job listing for a Head of Games Partnerships, who will be asked to “develop and enhance successful partnerships and influence internal and external partners and industry stakeholders in the Gaming industry.”  Facebook exec Dan Rose, who used to head the company’s global business development and is now VP of Partnerships and Platform Marketing, posted a link to the listing twelve hours ago.

Gaming has been very popular on Facebook for quite a while, but the social network has created a strained relationship with some developers as it’s changed the rules on the fly by cutting off the viral notifications channel and pressuring developers to use official Facebook Credits (which Facebook gets a 30% cut of).

But now the battle over games and developers is heating up: Google is preparing to launch a new social strategy with a social network rumored to be called Google Me, and gaming will play a big part in that. Google has already forged an alliance with Zynga, which has long been a major source of Facebook traffic and advertising dollars.

The news also comes just a week after a Nielsen report found that in the US, online gaming was beating email in terms of time spent online, with half of Americans playing online games like FarmVille.

The full job listing:

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.

Responsibilities: • Build, train, manage and grow a high-performing team of talented and motivated partner-facing individuals • Develop and drive our gaming partner strategy to support the continued growth and success of our partners and social gaming on Facebook • Scale our gaming Partner Development team by hiring highly talented and motivated individuals • Initiate, structure, negotiate, and maintain high impact strategic gaming partnerships. • Support new partners through launch process and liaise with Facebook product and technical support. • Track, analyze, and communicate key quantitative metrics and develop and execute against partner account plans. • Become the primary point of contact for and maintain strong direct relationships with Facebook’s key gaming partners • Be an internal and external advocate for our gaming partners.

Requirements

Requirements: • BA/BS degree with outstanding academic performance. MBA a plus. • 10+ years experience, including 5 years of related partner or partner facing experience • Extensive experience in the gaming industry • Business development experience negotiating complex media or Internet deals preferred. • Deep passion for Facebook products and social gaming • Strong management and coaching skills • Proven track record of initiating and successfully driving new business opportunities. • Excellent project management experience, with the ability to lead and execute multiple time-sensitive projects • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, and the ability to clarify and summarize complex issues • Demonstrated ability to think strategically about complex issues, leading to thoughtful recommendations and action plans.（source：sina/techcrunch）