Diversity, accomplishment, craft, and camaraderie are the hallmarks of the Kabam team. Taking our games from concept to an amazing experience on your device drives us every day.
Our highly skilled people take our games all the way – with dedicated teams in art, data, engineering, user research, live operations, marketing and more. (Plus, we’re all really fun).
Our Montreal Studio is the home of our beloved and highly successful Shop Titans title and we’re looking for a General Manager to pave the way.
If:
You have a keen mind for business and are experienced running a successful game development studio
You are a veteran leader who helps to mentor others and is highly collaborative
You understand the importance of balancing the business and people needs
You, above all, are seasoned in the craft of game development, production, and operation.
Let’s talk!
What does a typical day look like?
- Work closely with the senior leadership, Studio Craft Directors and Executive Producers across Kabam to ensure the overall effectiveness of studio operations for developing highly successful games aligned to business goals.
- Partner with Studio Craft Directors to ensure the development and operation of aligned, effective and efficient development practices and processes across the studio and Kabam.
- Partner with corporate/shared service functions, Head of Product and studio development leadership, to lead the operation of processes within your studio, addressing the studio’s needs.
- Partner with shared development service leaders (Operations, Central Tech, Data Science) to ensure a high level of partnership, quality and efficiency of support for studio product development.
- Manage studio related P&L management with focus on OPEX management within an established budget.
- Mentor, and support career development and succession planning.
- Cultivate and maintain a healthy, positive and inclusive studio culture through partnering with People and Facilities on studio team/culture building initiatives and events.
What do you need to be successful?
- 10+ years’ experience in the games business, including 5+ years of senior managerial experience in game development and publishing, ideally as a Senior Development Director/Director of Product Development.
- Successfully shipped multiple game titles, ideally in the mobile space with live operations experience.
- A strong passion for games and an ability to inspire game development teams to build amazing things.
- Proven record in leading and motivating people to overcome challenges in a fast paced, ever changing environment.
- Driven and entrepreneurial, calm under pressure yet open and approachable.
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills in both French and English.
- Willing to roll up sleeves and do whatever needs to be done in order to make this a great place to work.
Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:
- Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
- DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
- Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
- RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
- PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, unlimited paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
- Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
- Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
- Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
- Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
- Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.