Game Lead

5 Months ago • 3-5 Years • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Rovio seeks a Game Lead for Angry Birds Friends, a successful mobile game with significant growth potential. The lead will oversee the game's vision and strategy, managing a 40-person team. Key responsibilities include developing and executing strategic plans, adapting to market trends, optimizing feature roadmaps, fostering team collaboration, and ensuring high-quality live operations. Success requires strong leadership, extensive experience with large-scale live games (30M+ players), a deep understanding of the mobile games market (including production, design, Live Ops, UA), and exceptional communication skills.
Must have:
  • Strong leadership & team building
  • Extensive live game management experience (30M+ players)
  • Deep understanding of mobile games business
  • Insight into player behavior & market trends
  • Exceptional communication & collaboration skills

Job Details

Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer? Click here.

We are looking for a Game Lead to head one of Rovio’s most successful games, Angry Birds Friends, the last true slingshot game from the iconic IP with strong growth potential. As a Game Lead you will be leading the vision and strategy of the game while ensuring the team of 40 stays healthy and performs to the highest standard . You are a business savvy leader obsessed with building products that scale and last for decades with a track record of growing and maintaining successful mobile live titles for years.

You will have impact and fun at work by doing:

    • Strive to create and operate an exceptionally successful business.
    • Lead a successful and talented team, fostering a strong and positive team culture.
    • Develop and steer the game vision and strategic plans across long, mid, and short-term horizons, ensuring alignment with long-term business growth, product goals, and player experience.
    • Drive product vision and maximize business potential by adapting to market trends and understanding the evolving needs of the game’s audience.
    • Own and execute the strategy by guiding the team in designing an optimal feature and live operations roadmap.
    • Collaborate closely with craft leads, game leads, and central services to ensure cohesion and alignment across teams.
    • Provide clear updates on objectives and share key learnings with studio and company leadership, contributing to Rovio’s overall success.
    • Aim to achieve state-of-the-art live operations, setting a benchmark for quality and innovation.

Experience and skills we are looking for:

    • Demonstrates strong, inspiring leadership and team-building skills while maintaining humility.
    • Extensive experience managing a large-scale live game (30M+ players, 40+ team members).
    • Comprehensive understanding of the current mobile games business, including production, design, Live Ops, UA, and related areas.
    • Deep insight into player behavior, spender dynamics, and the competitive landscape.
    • Exceptional communication skills, fostering clear and effective collaboration.
    • A genuine passion for games as both a business and an entertainment medium.
We welcome applicants to use the name they want to be addressed by in the application form, regardless of whether it is their legal name.

At Rovio, we are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. If you have any questions before applying, please write to us at recruitment@rovio.com.

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About The Company

Rovio Entertainment Corporation is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has eight game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), one in Stockholm (Sweden), one in Copenhagen (Denmark), one in Barcelona (Spain), two in Montreal and one in Toronto (Canada). The studios also include a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games, which was acquired in 2021. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. The company’s shares are listed on the main list of NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange with the trading code ROVIO. Sega Europe Limited has acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares and will delist the company from NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange as soon as permitted under applicable laws.

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