Devoted Studios

GM/Head of Studio

UI/UX Designer (Unreal & Unity Integration)

Devoted Studios is seeking an experienced GM/Head of Studio to lead the studio's direction, performance, and success. This role combines operational, creative, strategic, managerial, and business responsibilities. Reporting to the CEO, you will drive company strategy, ensure alignment across verticals, and manage diverse business operations for sustainable growth. The ideal candidate is a passionate leader who can cultivate a culture of excitement about client impact and industry influence, while enjoying the game development environment.

<h1 class="text-3xl md:text-4xl font-extrabold mt-6 mb-4 text-gray-900 tracking-tight">DescriptionDevoted Studios is a US-based game development company specializing in Co-development, Porting, and End-to-End Art Production for the global gaming industry. With a distributed team of over 1,900+ skilled professionals, we collaborate across time zones to support projects on all major platforms, engines and styles - from AAA titles to emerging technologies. Our team includes world-class talents who bring deep expertise in external development, pipeline optimization, and creative problem-solving. Whether it’s porting games to new systems, enhancing gameplay features, or crafting stunning visuals, Devoted Studios operates as a trusted, flexible extension of our partners’ internal teams. We are proud to be the development partner of choice for industry leaders such as:</h1><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">2K</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Xbox</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Meta</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Obsidian Entertainment</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Turtle Rock Studios</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Gearbox Software</li></ul>At Devoted Studios, we’re committed to making outsourcing more efficient, collaborative, and impactful. If you're passionate about co-development, game art, or solving technical challenges on a global scale, we’d love to hear from you.We are seeking an experienced GM/Head of Studio to lead our studio's direction, performance, and success. This role blends operational, creative, strategic, managerial, and business responsibilities.As a key member of our senior management team, reporting directly to the CEO, you will drive the execution of the company's strategy, ensure alignment across verticals, and manage diverse business operations to achieve sustainable growth. We are looking for a passionate leader who can cultivate a culture where team members are excited about our impact on clients and the industry as a whole. And ideally have fun doing it, in the end we work in games!<h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Key Responsibilities:</h2><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Leadership and Vision:</h3>● Define Studio Vision: Develop and communicate a clear vision for the studio, aligning it with the company's overall goals and objectives.● Strategic Planning: Formulate strategic plans to guide the studio's growth, development, and market positioning.● Identify Opportunities: Explore and identify new business opportunities, partnerships, and potential areas for growth.<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Studio Management:</h3>● Drive day-to-day studio operations and cross-department collaboration: oversee IT, Legal, Production, HR, Recruitment● Drive operational efficiencies, quality, and cost reduction: Streamline operations within the service departments; ensure that processes are efficient, well-defined, easily adopted, and quickly learned by new team members.● Drive company’s quarterly and yearly OKR: Develop, implement and monitor a system of operational KPIs across departments, ensuring the company’ system of operational KPIs is aligned with the company's strategy and scale plan.● Establish effective process-level cooperation with the CEO, CFO, Head of BD, Production, Marketing aimed at scaling and growing revenue and margins.<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Team Management:</h3>● Build and Lead Teams: Drive recruitment, hire, and management of an extraordinary team of professionals that love what they do and are excited to drive excellence on each level of the company● Team Culture: Foster a culture of curiosity, accountability and teamwork, that encourages efficiency and innovation● Professional Growth: In collaboration with HR drive support ongoing training and professional development opportunities for studio employees.● Talent Retention: Foster an environment that promotes employee satisfaction and retention.<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Strategic Financial Management:</h3>● Develop and execute Studio strategy to achieve revenue and margin targets: services portfolio strategy, pricing strategy, capacity management and hiring strategy, target Studio org. chart and management org. structure.● Take ownership of (assume responsibility over) the Studio P&L:○ Decompose budget targets and execution responsibility to specific Studio-level key management positions○ In collaboration with the CFO provide monthly Studio management reporting, quarterly Studio forecasting, and annual Studio budgeting processes, to track revenue and margins consistently.○ In collaboration with the Head of Production establish effective capacity planning tools, capacity, and bench risk management frameworks, aligned with the strategy and budget targets○ Partner with the CFO and CEO to establish effective motivation plans and bonus systems linked to sales, revenue, and margins<h1 class="text-3xl md:text-4xl font-extrabold mt-6 mb-4 text-gray-900 tracking-tight">Requirements</h1><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Key Qualifications:</h2><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Proven experience as a GM, Head of Studio or relevant role, with solid experience as a Project Manager, Producer and/or PMO in the video games industry.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong tactical acumen, with the ability to foresee potential issues and create strategic plans to overcome them.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Proven track record strategic planning and business growth.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong revenue knowledge and headcount growth</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Driving operational efficiencies, quality and cost reduction.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Developing and implementing effective growth strategies</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Working knowledge of data analysis and performance/operation metrics.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with Big4 audits</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with IT/Business infrastructure.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience in recruiting, developing, and overseeing a performance-driven team.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Adept at strategic decision-making and problem-solving.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Understanding of advanced business planning and regulatory issues.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Excellent organizational and leadership abilities.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong written and verbal communication skills.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">PMP certification is a plus</li><li class="leading-relaxed">MSc/MBA is a plus.</li></ul><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Key Experience:</h2><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">A managerial background in game development studios or service provider studios (medium to large scale) is required</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Recent experience at Executive role (GM, Head of Studio, Head of Production or similar) 6+ years</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Leadership roles 10+ years of</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Project Manager, Producer / Executive producer in well known service company</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Game development and entertainment 10+ years</li></ul><h1 class="text-3xl md:text-4xl font-extrabold mt-6 mb-4 text-gray-900 tracking-tight">Benefits</h1><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">We offer:</h2><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Strong and enthusiastic team – you will have the opportunity for knowledge sharing, learning, and professional self-development</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Interesting and challenging tasks – solve diverse and challenging issues, communicate with people within the company as well as with our partners;</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Convenient working conditions – remote work, the opportunity to build your own working day with flexible working hours</li><li class="leading-relaxed">А chance to work in a highly professional and dynamic team working with a wide range of International Game Production projects, attractive remuneration package, and opportunities to develop professionally.</li></ul>This is a remote, full-time contracted position.We are an equal opportunity company and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for a contract without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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