A London-based esports and gaming lifestyle organisation with professional teams in games such as League of Legends, Counter-Strike and Valorant.
Fnatic is an esports organisation. It runs professional teams in games such as League of Legends, Counter-Strike and Valorant, and sells gaming gear and merchandise under its own name. It also runs its own digital agency, Sannpa, according to Wikipedia. It also works with brands as a sponsor and content partner, and has a music label, Fnatic Music, launched in 2022.
Fnatic was founded on 23 July 2004 and began as a Counter-Strike team. It has since grown to compete in around 30 games over its history, including the first Counter-Strike Major in 2013 and the League of Legends World Championship in 2011, and says it has won more than 200 championships. Its London recruitment profile gives the mission as "to forge a nation of 1 billion Fnatics". The original founders are given differently in different sources, so we only note that Sam Mathews is chief executive in the profile we read.
Fnatic is a UK-founded company with its head office in London. One job-site profile places the office in Dalston at 1 Kingsland Passage with a hybrid working policy, while Wikipedia places it near Old Street, so check the current address when you apply. The profile lists 101 to 200 staff in total, with international players and staff based elsewhere, including a Berlin team for some games. Its senior team includes a chief executive, chief gaming officer, sales director, accounts director and head of creative services.
The company profile describes office life with regular lunch clubs, office drinks, a Fnatic Library where staff can request development books, daily fruit and snacks, and private medical insurance and an employee assistance programme. It says 22% of staff are female. These are company profile claims, so treat them as a starting point for questions at interview. Players and coaches come from the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Romania and many other countries. Its public profile claims over 50 team members across 10 games and about six million social media followers.
Behind the players there is a business team: performance analysts, coaches, esports operations managers, marketing and brand managers, content creators, sales and partnerships. Job listings seen in our search included an esports operations manager, a marketing manager and a Counter-Strike performance analyst. If you love a game and want to work around it without being a professional player, the support roles are where most of the jobs are.
Website: fnatic.com
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