General Manager, new football mobile game

Rovio

Job Location:

Barcelona - Spain

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer Click here.

Join us to shape the future of sports gaming! Were looking for a General Manager in Barcelona to guide the journey of a new free-to-play football title. Youll be the ultimate strategic lead overseeing the games vision financial success and entire development lifecycle. This is a Tier 1 project with extremely high ambition and youll have full profit and loss ownership. Youll play a central role in assembling a bespoke team and cultivating a supportive high-performance culture. This is a rare chance to build a unique mobile game delivering world-class results and a standout addition to Rovios portfolio.

You will have impact and fun at work by:

Steer the multi-year game strategy as the central executive partner fostering trust and ensuring seamless product alignment across internal teams.
Owning the full Profit & Loss for the game managing the budget and designing a world-class commercial roadmap that helps us maximize revenue.
Assembling and nurturing the core Barcelona development team cultivating a high-performance culture.
Ensuring state-of-the-art Live Operations when we get there including fun events promotions and content updates that drive daily player engagement and set a quality benchmark for the industry.
Fostering a data-informed team culture using player behavior insights and analytics to anticipate market shifts and guide all of our priorities.

Experience and skills we are looking for:

Youre an expert at leading big F2P projects from the earliest prototype stage all the way into highly profitable Live Operations ensuring the brand consistency.
You have a holistic understanding of the current mobile games businessfrom product strategy and design to user acquisition and commercial scalingand use it to guide the big-picture development strategy.
You possess absolute mastery of the F2P mobile landscape preferably in football or sports games.
You have a qualified deep expertise in football or sportsallowing you to genuinely connect with the domain.
You have a proven track record of leading diverse global teams and excel at stakeholder management building trust-based relationships and driving collaboration across organizations.
You demonstrateinspirational executive leadership with professional humility encouraging ownership and maintaining project momentum with exceptional communication.

It would be nice if you also have the following skills:

Deep executive experience with global contract negotiation
Enterprise-level product and market understanding that goes far beyond standard production.

Youll work in a hybrid setup with two days at the office per week. Kindly send us your CV in English. We look forward to speaking to you!

We welcome applicants to use the name they want to be addressed by in the application form regardless of whether it is their legal name.

At Rovio we are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or conditions in our working environment and job application procedures. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. If you have any questions before applying please write to us atemailprotected.

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Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer Click here.Join us to shape the future of sports gaming! Were looking for a General Manager in Barcelona to guide the journey of a new free-to-play football title. Youll b...

Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer Click here.

You will have impact and fun at work by:

Steer the multi-year game strategy as the central executive partner fostering trust and ensuring seamless product alignment across internal teams.
Owning the full Profit & Loss for the game managing the budget and designing a world-class commercial roadmap that helps us maximize revenue.
Assembling and nurturing the core Barcelona development team cultivating a high-performance culture.
Ensuring state-of-the-art Live Operations when we get there including fun events promotions and content updates that drive daily player engagement and set a quality benchmark for the industry.
Fostering a data-informed team culture using player behavior insights and analytics to anticipate market shifts and guide all of our priorities.

Experience and skills we are looking for:

Youre an expert at leading big F2P projects from the earliest prototype stage all the way into highly profitable Live Operations ensuring the brand consistency.
You have a holistic understanding of the current mobile games businessfrom product strategy and design to user acquisition and commercial scalingand use it to guide the big-picture development strategy.
You possess absolute mastery of the F2P mobile landscape preferably in football or sports games.
You have a qualified deep expertise in football or sportsallowing you to genuinely connect with the domain.
You have a proven track record of leading diverse global teams and excel at stakeholder management building trust-based relationships and driving collaboration across organizations.
You demonstrateinspirational executive leadership with professional humility encouraging ownership and maintaining project momentum with exceptional communication.