Publishing Director

8 Hours ago • All levels • Editorial

Job Summary

Job Description

Oversee the games portfolio from signing to launch and beyond, ensuring a high-quality and strategically coherent title mix. Work with development teams to build a strong slate that fosters community and brand excellence. Play a key role in the strategic makeup of the games title mix, overseeing the creation and execution of go-to-market plans across all disciplines to maximize title success and team performance. Manage partner relationships for high-quality collaboration and happy stakeholders across development and agency partnerships. Drive and report KPIs, ensuring focus on critical numbers and activities. Lead business intelligence, reporting, and projections planning, connecting market data with in-house performance. Focus on high-ROI marketing activities to drive maximum profitability. Manage multiple conflicting deadlines to ensure consistent progress and focus on key goals for maximum success. Oversee game production and reviews, ensuring they are managed, understood, and on track for time and quality goals. Build and manage a high-performing, happy, and inspired Publishing team, fostering enjoyment and shared success. Mind both the big picture and details, from Steam optimization to campaign rollout and overall business success. Manage Marketing, Production, and Operations teams.
Must have:
  • Lead successful games publishing teams
  • Understand AA landscape challenges and opportunities
  • Excellent industry network
  • Articulate successes, failures, and plans
  • Built profitable game portfolios
Good to have:
  • Bold, ambitious, and expert leader
  • Inspiring and fun leader
  • Highly versed in games publishing
  • Passionate about games and people
  • Willing to take a leap of faith
Perks:
  • Generous consideration in options scheme

Job Details

PUBLISHING DIRECTOR

  • Oversee our games portfolio from signing to launch and beyond, ensure we have a high-quality & strategically coherent title mix working with outstanding dev teams, building a high-quality slate that enables the building of communities and an excellent brand.

  • Play a key role in strategic makeup of our games title mix.

  • Oversee creation and execution of go-to-market plans, overseeing all disciplines to maximise the success of our titles and performance of our teams.

  • Oversee and manage relationships with our partners to ensure high quality collaboration and happy stakeholders driving towards success together across development, agency partnerships and beyond.

  • Drive & report KPI's, ensuring all from execution to Executive are focussed collectively on the numbers & activities that count.

  • Lead business intelligence, reporting and projections planning, connecting market data and plans to in-house performance.

  • Focus on high-ROI marketing activities, driving maximum profitability for a highly ambitious publisher and developer collective.

  • Set, drive and manage against multiple conflicting deadlines: ensure activity is consistently pushed forward, focussed on the most important goals to breed maximum success.

  • Ensure game production and reviews are reported, managed, understood and on-track to time and quality goals.

  • Oversee and help build a performant, happy and inspired Publishing team, ensuring people enjoy coming to work and are succeeding together.

  • Minding the big picture and the details, with an eye on all from steam optimisation to thoughtful campaign rollout to the overall success of the business.

  • Manage our Marketing, Production & Ops teams.

THE HUMAN
  • Bold, ambitious and expert - you are a leader with the balance of expertise and willingness to try, fail and pivot fast from a position of fiscal care and creative boldness.

  • Fun, inspiring and a great leader - people love to be with you, you're able to inspire up and down the organisation.

  • Highly versed in games publishing - you've been there, done that and want to push things forward.

  • Passionate about games and people - you must love games. You must love people.

  • Willing to take a leap of faith - our executive team tends to take haircuts, which is reflected in generous consideration in our options scheme.

THE PROOF
  • You've led successful teams to games publishing success in the past.

  • You have demonstrable understanding of the challenges and opportunities of the A-AA landscape.

  • You have an excellent industry network.

  • You can articulate your past successes, failures - and what you would plan to bring to CULT.

  • You have previously built profitable games portfolios.

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About The Company

We’re very new. We work pretty silly hard sometimes. Our standards are high, systems being built & our office is a London basement. But…We are building and partnering with some of the most exciting indie game development talent in the world. Every individual makes a huge mark on what we do and what we will become. If you’re a brilliant  ‘build it together’ person over a ‘what’s my job title?’ person, this might just be the place for you.

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