Managing Director (f/m/d)

7 Months ago • All levels

About the job

Over the last 3 years, Sunday has become a well-established and leading hybrid-casual games publisher. Everybody loves our brand, we are thought-leaders on the product side, and run fully-automated marketing, monetization, and publishing powerhouse. That’s a good foundation, but now we are aiming for the very top of the industry.

As Managing Director for Sunday, you lead and run the company. You will make sure we are reaching our goals in revenue growth, headcount, and infrastructure by bringing our operations to the next level and developing new business areas. You will complete the management team with your skill set and strengths as a counterpart to your Co-MD.

We receive immense support to achieve this goal through the AppLike Group. Our sister companies justDice, justtrack, adjoe and Tabbler provide us with cutting-edge marketing and advertising technology.

Our growth is secured by a substantial investment from Bertelsmann, one of the biggest media companies worldwide. If you like to challenge yourself and want to work in a high-performance environment, send us your application!

What you will do:

    • You will drive the company’s vision and mission and define long-term business objectives
    • You will be responsible for mobile game acquisition (asset deals) + operations in publishing, monetization, and marketing
    • You will build a fully modeled x-year scaling plan to include objectives & key milestones, commercial targets, and fully modeled P&L
    • You will be an sparring partner to your Co-MD regarding business strategy, company culture, and processes
    • You will develop winning strategies to conquer a very competitive market and break them down into hands-on operational tasks for your teams
    • You will communicate our business vision to the public
    • You will be the main stakeholder to other applike group companies (“internal customers”)
    • You will develop our publishing, marketing/monetization department and build a Business Development Organization to buy games

Who you are:

    • You have a successful track record as Business Development Director, Country Manager, C-Level or similar position in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment 
    • You have a strong track record in Asset deals in the app and/or gaming space
    • You possess proven P&L success
    • You are extremely analytical, data-driven and well-structured in your work
    • You are an strong communicator with excellent leadership skills
    • You have an entrepreneurial mindset, combined with investment/portfolio thinking
    • You can naturally create structure, optimize for efficiency and push projects to completion
    • You are able and willing to coach your leadership team to bring their best performance
    • You can easily switch between big picture thinking and optimizing details
    • You have passion for mobile gaming business 
    • You possess good understanding of performance marketing and advertising business models
    • Plus: Network in mobile gaming industry (game developers/publishers, ad-tech players) 
    • You are fluent in English (speaking/writing)


Skip writing cover letters. Tell us about your most passionate personal project, your desired salary and your earliest possible start date. We are looking forward to your application!

We welcome applications from people who will contribute to the diversity of our company.

About The Company

applike group is the leading company building in the app economy. Based in Hamburg/Germany, our technologies & businesses cover the full value chain of the mobile apps market.


Our companies work independently but benefit from each others’ technologies and knowledge.


We have set up 5 companies (JustDice, adjoe, Sunday, justtrack, Tabbler) under one roof of applike group.


justDice is responsible for building the world’s largest rewarded mobile gaming experiences. As market-leader in this genre, our goal is to ultimately create the best rewarded games.


adjoe’s ad format generates higher ad revenues than any other solution. adjoe’s UA platform provides quality traffic on scale, leveraging our growing SDK network.


Sunday creates and publishes extremely engaging and addictive mobile games with smart and player-friendly monetisation.


justtrack is our unique answer to optimizing and automating your entire mobile app growth strategy – all on one platform.


Tabbler builds highly engaging mobile games (iOS and Android) for leading consumer brands. End-to-end, from the development to the game’s production to the actual distribution to millions of users in a given region.


These 5 companies receive best in class business support from applike's central service teams: Talent Acquisition, HR, Finance, Office Management and Internal IT.


We are 100 percent tech company where everybody is interested in computer science. We are always giving our best to keep in touch with the newest technology to build the most relevant products. Our mission is to build software with the capability to distribute ads to every mobile device on earth.


We're always looking for new colleagues. Come join us if you're ambitious, smart, kind and want to grow professionally while having a lot of fun. :)

Hamburg, Germany (Hybrid)

Hamburg, Germany (Hybrid)

Hamburg, Germany (Hybrid)

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