Studio Management Director - Lion Studios

About the Position

Studio Management Director - Lion Studios

Remote Europe

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About the Company

Tripledot Studios is one of the largest independent mobile games companies in the world. We are a multi-award-winning organization with a global team of over 2,500 people across 12 studios. Our portfolio includes some of the biggest titles in mobile gaming, engaging over 25 million daily active users.

Our guiding principle is that when people love what they do, what they do will be loved by others. We're building a company we're proud of, filled with driven, incredibly smart, and detail-oriented people who LOVE making games.

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About the Role

We're looking for a Director of Studio Management to lead our global studio management team at Lion Studios. This is a remote role, with a preference for candidates based in Europe, reporting to the Senior Director of Publishing and Business Development. You'll be the bridge between our studio managers, cross-functional leads, and the finance and legal teams that keep our publishing department running.

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The Impact You'll Make

• Lead and Support: Guide a team of studio managers, helping them sign premium studios, build strong developer relationships, and hit their goals.
• Recruit and Grow: Recruit, grow, and shape the team as the business scales, including org design and calibrating roles across regions.
• Business Development: Support the BD side of the team's work. Studio managers act as business development leads, and you'll help them win and keep top studios by understanding what partners need.
• Develop Strategies: Create and implement BD strategies at both the regional and global level, tailoring the approach to each market while keeping the overall portfolio aligned.
• Oversee Game Pipeline: Manage the company's game pipeline, with a focus on moving titles from prototyping to soft launch on time and clearing blockers early.
• Contract Management: Create, update, and manage contracts alongside the TDS Legal team. Stay proactive about keeping terms in line with industry standards and partners’ requirements.
• Collaborate with Teams: Work closely with Game Design, Data, Intelligence, Product, and Growth leads to understand how the teams operate and make changes that help them work better together.
• Financial Oversight: Keep a solid understanding of the company portfolio's P&L. You should be able to explain how costs are structured and attributed, and work with the TDS Finance team on accuracy and improvements.
• Review and Update: Regularly review the publishing process and KPIs, and update benchmarks and workflows as the company needs change.
• Represent Leadership: Represent the studio management function to leadership, reporting on team performance and helping shape publishing strategy at the executive level.

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Requirements

• Experience: 7+ years in studio management, business development, or product/project management in mobile gaming, including 3+ years managing teams.
• Skills:
  • 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.

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Nice to Have

• Trends and Metrics: Good grasp of current trends and metrics in mobile gaming.
• Finance and Legal Experience: Experience working with finance and legal teams in a publishing setting.
• Portfolio P&L: Familiarity with portfolio or game-level P&L, including how costs are structured and attributed.
• Startup Experience: Startup or high-growth experience.

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We Offer

Join us to shape the next generation of hit mobile games - where creativity meets performance, and innovation drives results.

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Ready to Lead the Pride?

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