Job Description
We are looking for an exceptional VP, Growth & Live Games to lead the next stage of growth for our portfolio of mobile games.
Responsibilities:
- Own the commercial performance and strategic direction of mobile titles transitioning from validation into scale.
- Take full accountability for revenue, profitability, growth, and long-term product performance.
- Establish ambitious but sustainable growth plans, operating budgets, and financial targets.
- Allocate capital and resources across titles based on commercial potential, scalability, and expected returns.
- Build, structure, and lead a multidisciplinary business unit capable of operating multiple live titles at scale.
- Establish clear accountability, performance management, and execution frameworks across all functions.
- Develop and execute comprehensive growth strategies to scale proven titles into substantial revenue-generating businesses.
- Own user acquisition strategy, budgets, creative performance, and channel diversification.
- Drive profitable UA expansion through rigorous management of ROAS, LTV, CAC, retention, and payback periods.
- Build scalable creative testing and performance marketing operations.
- Identify opportunities to expand into new markets, audiences, and acquisition channels.
- Balance aggressive growth objectives with sustainable unit economics and profitability.
- Own the ongoing product strategy and roadmap for all titles within the growth portfolio.
- Lead live operations, including events, content updates, progression systems, economy balancing, and player engagement initiatives.
- Continuously improve retention, engagement, monetization, and lifetime value through data-driven product optimization.
- Drive experimentation across gameplay systems, monetization mechanics, offers, and player experiences.
- Identify and prioritize product improvements that unlock additional growth potential.
- Ensure games remain competitive, engaging, and commercially successful throughout their lifecycle.
- Oversee the development, engineering, QA, and maintenance functions supporting live titles.
- Establish efficient release cycles, development roadmaps, and operational processes.
- Balance new feature development with technical stability, performance, and maintenance requirements.
- Ensure development resources are focused on initiatives with the greatest measurable business impact.
- Build an organization capable of maintaining high operational standards while scaling multiple products simultaneously.
- Establish a comprehensive performance framework across acquisition, engagement, retention, monetization, and profitability.
- Leverage cohort analysis, predictive LTV models, experimentation, and advanced analytics to guide investment decisions.
- Identify growth constraints and work across functions to systematically remove them.
- Develop reliable forecasting, performance reporting, and decision-making processes.
- Build a culture where product and commercial decisions are grounded in measurable outcomes.
- Recruit, develop, and lead exceptional talent across growth, UA, product management, live operations, analytics, and development.
- Build a highly accountable, commercially focused culture that emphasizes ownership and execution.
- Develop strong functional leaders capable of independently managing their teams and delivering against ambitious objectives.
- Establish effective collaboration between the early-stage development organization and the growth business unit.
- Create repeatable operating systems that enable the organization to scale additional titles efficiently.
Required Qualifications:
- Significant senior leadership experience within the mobile gaming industry, ideally in free-to-play, casual, or hybrid-casual games.
- Demonstrated success scaling mobile games from early commercial validation to meaningful revenue and profitability.
- Proven experience owning or materially influencing the P&L of successful live mobile games.
- Deep understanding of mobile gaming economics, including user acquisition, ROAS, LTV, retention, engagement, and monetization.
- Strong experience managing cross-functional teams spanning product, marketing, development, analytics, and live operations.
- A track record of successfully scaling user acquisition investment while maintaining disciplined financial performance.
- Strong understanding of free-to-play game systems, player behavior, game economies, and live operations.
- Experience building organizations, establishing processes, and managing senior functional leaders.
- Commercially minded: Thinks like a business owner, not simply a functional leader.
- Highly analytical: Comfortable making significant investment and product decisions using data, forecasting, and experimentation.
- Product-oriented: Understands what makes mobile games successful and how to improve their long-term performance.
- Execution-focused: Able to translate strategy into measurable outcomes through effective teams and operating systems.
- Entrepreneurial: Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with substantial autonomy and accountability.
- Strategic but hands-on: Capable of setting long-term direction while remaining close enough to the business to identify opportunities and solve problems.
Benefits:
- Market-competitive compensation
- Paid Time Off
- Performance Bonus
- Annual Performance Reviews
Skills:
- Business Leadership
- P&L Management
- Growth Strategy
- User Acquisition
- Live Operations
- Data Analytics
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