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UserWise Services

External game dev teams using AI

Vice President Growth & Live Games

Business & StrategyConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in SerbiaRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • Significant senior leadership experience within the mobile gaming industry, ideally in free-to-play, casual, or hybrid-casual games.
  • Demonstrated success scaling mobile games from early commercial validation to meaningful revenue and profitability.
  • Proven experience owning or materially influencing the profit and loss of successful live mobile games.
  • Deep understanding of mobile gaming economics, including user acquisition, return on ad spend, lifetime value, retention, engagement, and monetization.
  • Strong experience managing cross-functional teams spanning product, marketing, development, analytics, and live operations.
  • A track record of successfully scaling user acquisition investment while maintaining disciplined financial performance.
  • Strong understanding of free-to-play game systems, player behavior, game economies, and live operations.
  • Experience building organizations, establishing processes, and managing senior functional leaders.
  • Ability to make significant investment and product decisions using data, forecasting, and experimentation.
  • Understanding of what makes mobile games successful and how to improve their long-term performance.
  • Ability to translate strategy into measurable outcomes through effective teams and operating systems.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with substantial autonomy and accountability.
  • Ability to set long-term direction while remaining close enough to the business to identify opportunities and solve problems.

Responsibilities

  • Own the commercial performance and strategic direction of mobile titles transitioning from validation into scale.
  • Take full accountability for revenue, profitability, growth, and long-term product performance.
  • Establish ambitious but sustainable growth plans, operating budgets, and financial targets.
  • Allocate capital and resources across titles based on commercial potential, scalability, and expected returns.
  • Build, structure, and lead a multidisciplinary business unit capable of operating multiple live titles at scale.
  • Establish clear accountability, performance management, and execution frameworks across all functions.
  • Develop and execute comprehensive growth strategies to scale proven titles into substantial revenue-generating businesses.
  • Own user acquisition strategy, budgets, creative performance, and channel diversification.
  • Drive profitable user acquisition expansion through management of return on ad spend, lifetime value, customer acquisition cost, retention, and payback periods.
  • Build scalable creative testing and performance marketing operations.
  • Identify opportunities to expand into new markets, audiences, and acquisition channels.
  • Balance growth objectives with sustainable unit economics and profitability.
  • Own the ongoing product strategy and roadmap for all titles within the growth portfolio.
  • Lead live operations, including events, content updates, progression systems, economy balancing, and player engagement initiatives.
  • Improve retention, engagement, monetization, and lifetime value through data-driven product optimization.
  • Drive experimentation across gameplay systems, monetization mechanics, offers, and player experiences.
  • Identify and prioritize product improvements that unlock additional growth potential.
  • Ensure games remain competitive, engaging, and commercially successful throughout their lifecycle.
  • Oversee the development, engineering, quality assurance, and maintenance functions supporting live titles.
  • Establish efficient release cycles, development roadmaps, and operational processes.
  • Balance new feature development with technical stability, performance, and maintenance requirements.
  • Ensure development resources are focused on initiatives with the greatest measurable business impact.
  • Build an organization capable of maintaining high operational standards while scaling multiple products simultaneously.
  • Establish a comprehensive performance framework across acquisition, engagement, retention, monetization, and profitability.
  • Leverage cohort analysis, predictive lifetime value models, experimentation, and advanced analytics to guide investment decisions.
  • Identify growth constraints and work across functions to systematically remove them.
  • Develop reliable forecasting, performance reporting, and decision-making processes.
  • Build a culture where product and commercial decisions are grounded in measurable outcomes.
  • Recruit, develop, and lead talent across growth, user acquisition, product management, live operations, analytics, and development.
  • Build an accountable, commercially focused culture that emphasizes ownership and execution.
  • Develop functional leaders capable of independently managing their teams and delivering against objectives.
  • Establish effective collaboration between the early-stage development organization and the growth business unit.
  • Create repeatable operating systems that enable the organization to scale additional titles efficiently.

Desired Qualifications

  • Ideally, leadership experience is within free-to-play, casual, or hybrid-casual mobile games.

About the Company

UserWise Services

External game dev teams using AI

UserWise Services builds high-performance external teams for game studios to move fast, scale intelligently, and operate for the long term. They focus on new game development, LiveOps, growth, maintenance, and portfolio-level product execution, embedding teams that act like internal staff. How it works: their teams take ownership and run production and LiveOps using a proprietary AI-powered toolset that accelerates design, content creation, LiveOps execution, and decision-making as part of daily workflows. The company differentiates itself through a distributed, senior-leaning workforce and tools that reduce friction across design, art, engineering, data, and LiveOps, enabling decisions grounded in player impact. Their goal is to help partners grow games to large, sustainable outcomes, already supporting studios managing $100M+ in annual revenue across portfolios, with operations across the US and EU.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Madison, WI
Founded
2020

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