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KRAFTON

Develops and publishes cross-platform games

Franchise Project Manager

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSeoul, South KoreaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in game publishing, business development, business strategy, product management, or project management within the game industry.
  • Experience systematically managing schedules, risks, decisions, and action items on projects involving multiple stakeholders.
  • Ability to structure uncertain and complex problems, set priorities, and translate them into concrete strategies and execution tasks.
  • Business-level English communication skills for collaboration with global development studios and overseas partners.
  • Ability to prepare concise and persuasive documents and reports for executives and key decision-makers.
  • Experience identifying new game, business, or partnership opportunities and connecting business evaluation with planning and execution.
  • Experience identifying and evaluating developers or external business partners and participating in business-term discussions and partnership development.
  • Ability to analyze market size, competitive landscape, business models, revenue and cost structures, and key risks to prepare logical business cases.
  • Understanding of game development, launch, and live-service processes, as well as key publishing functions such as business, marketing, and operations.
  • Strong interest in games and players, with the ability to consider short-term business performance alongside long-term game and intellectual-property value.
  • No disqualifying circumstances for overseas business travel.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze the market environment, players, competitive landscape, and business status for assigned games and intellectual properties, and develop medium- and long-term publishing strategies and growth roadmaps.
  • Identify new business opportunities, including new games, markets, platform expansions, external development, and partnerships, and develop them into concrete initiatives.
  • Analyze market size, strategic fit, expected revenue and costs, investment scale, feasibility, and key risks for new initiatives; prepare business cases and recommend priorities.
  • Identify potential developers, publishers, and business partners; support or lead proposal and pitch evaluation, capability validation, due diligence, partner selection, and contract negotiations.
  • Design partnership roles and responsibilities, rights scope, business structure, decision-making processes, and key terms; manage execution to ensure agreed businesses deliver results.
  • Manage key schedules, milestones, dependencies, budgets, quality standards, and risks through assigned projects’ development, launch, and live-service stages.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for development studios and external partners, manage progress and issues, and lead necessary decisions and follow-up execution.
  • Coordinate project goals and execution direction with internal teams, including business, marketing, community, operations, platform, data, finance, and legal.
  • Structure key business updates and decisions into reports for executives and stakeholders, and continuously manage action items and project outcomes.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience managing mobile game development, launch, or service projects as a project manager.
  • Experience collaborating with local publishers or development partners in overseas markets, including China.
  • Business-level Chinese communication skills.
  • Experience developing and executing medium- and long-term game intellectual-property growth strategies, franchise strategies, or portfolios.
  • Experience with new-title incubation, external development, co-development, or publishing projects.
  • Experience sourcing developers and business partners, evaluating requests for proposals and pitches, conducting due diligence, negotiating contracts, or managing partners.
  • Experience with profit-and-loss management, investment reviews, business evaluation, revenue forecasting, or project key performance indicator design.
  • Experience with intellectual-property licensing, game collaborations, brand partnerships, or other intellectual-property expansion businesses.
  • Experience publishing games across multiple platforms, including PC, console, and mobile.
  • Experience collaborating in multicultural, multiregional, or cross-functional organizations.

About the Company

KRAFTON

Develops and publishes cross-platform games

Krafton is a group of independent game studios that develops and publishes video games for PC, console, and mobile. Its business model centers on delivering high-quality games and monetizing them through game sales, in-game purchases, and licensing deals, with PUBG as a flagship title. Krafton differentiates itself by coordinating a network of studios and investing in technology and publishing support rather than relying on a single in-house studio, enabling a diverse catalog and esports initiatives. Its goal is to push the boundaries of gaming and connect people through shared entertainment moments across platforms.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seongnam-si, South Korea
Founded
2007

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