About the Role
Lead and support a global studio management team, acting as a bridge between studio managers, cross-functional leads, and finance/legal teams. Drive business development strategies, oversee the game pipeline, and manage publishing contracts to ensure timely delivery and partner satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support a team of studio managers, helping them sign premium studios, build strong developer relationships, and hit their goals.
- Recruit, grow, and shape the team as the business scales, including org design and calibrating roles across regions.
- Support the BD side of the team's work, helping studio managers win and keep top studios by understanding partner needs.
- Develop and implement BD strategies at both the regional and global level, tailoring the approach to each market while keeping the overall portfolio aligned.
- Oversee the company's game pipeline, focusing on moving titles from prototyping to soft launch on time and clearing blockers early.
- Create, update, and manage contracts alongside the TDS Legal team, staying proactive about keeping terms in line with industry standards and partners’ requirements.
- Work closely with Game Design, Data, Intelligence, Product, and Growth leads to understand team operations and implement improvements for better collaboration.
- Maintain a solid understanding of the company portfolio's P&L, explaining cost structures and working with the TDS Finance team on accuracy and improvements.
- Review the publishing process and KPIs regularly, updating benchmarks and workflows as company needs change.
- Translate shifting company priorities into practical changes to internal workflows and processes.
- Represent the studio management function to leadership, reporting on team performance and helping shape publishing strategy at the executive level.
Requirements
- 7+ years in studio management, business development, or product/project management in mobile gaming, including 3+ years managing teams.
- Track record building and managing external studios or developer relationships, ideally signing and keeping premium partners.
- Hands-on experience with publishing contracts.
- Experience overseeing game pipelines from concept to launch across multiple titles.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical people.
- Comfort working with P&L, KPIs, and pipeline data, and the tools behind them.
- Experience managing across regions, markets, and time zones.
- Organized and analytical, comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
- Good grasp of current trends and metrics in mobile gaming.
- Experience working with finance and legal teams in a publishing setting.
- Familiarity with portfolio or game-level P&L, including how costs are structured and attributed.
- Startup or high-growth experience.
Skills
- Studio Management
- Business Development
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Team Management
- Developer Relations
- Contract Management
- Pipeline Management
- P&L Management
- KPI Analysis
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Communication
Location
- Remote
- Europe (preferred)
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- 7+ years in mobile gaming
- 3+ years managing teams
Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Continuous Professional Development
- Supplemental Health Insurance (Continentale: 1200 eur annual budget)
- 100% Public Transportation reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- Daily Free Lunch (Wolt)
- Pension plan (employer contributed)
About the Company
- Tripledot Studios is one of the largest independent mobile games companies in the world.
- A multi-award-winning organization with a global 2,500+ strong team across 12 studios.
- Portfolio includes major mobile gaming titles, reaching top chart positions and engaging over 25 million daily active users.
- Guiding principle: when people love what they do, what they do will be loved by others.
- Building a company filled with driven, smart, and detail-oriented people who love making games.
- Ambition to be the most successful games company in the world.
