Head of LiveOps
Skills
About the Role
You will lead Amanotes' largest and most impactful business unit, managing flagship titles such as Magic Tiles 3, Tiles Hop, Dancing Road, and Duet Cats. You will drive sustainable growth through product strategy, operational excellence, and a high-performing team culture. You will play a pivotal role in Amanotes' hybrid transformation journey by elevating LiveOps, monetization, and product practices to a new level of innovation, automation, and scale.
Requirements
- 7+ years in mobile app and game development, especially in casual or hybrid casual titles
- Proven success designing and scaling liveops, retention loops, and hybrid monetization systems
- Understand and successfully deploy AI products/tools
- 5+ years in leadership roles; known for building high-performing teams
- Ability to go from high-level division planning to detailed product iterations
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and fast-paced growth
- Ability to communicate clarity to complex situations with many stakeholders
- Understanding of the ecosystem of mobile games and ad tech
- Passionate about music and games
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken
Responsibilities
- Define the division's strategy considering market, company strategy, reusability and team capabilities
- Identify and fill needed capabilities and resources
- Own feature building, market expansion, and monetization for the top games in Amanotes
- Keep the company updated with AI developments related to the scope
- Apply AI to speed up production, liveops, and other operations in the team
- Design product strategy that promotes reusability across games
- Develop tools and infrastructure to facilitate scaled operations and automation
- Lead cross-functional team from product, game design, tech, monetization, ad operations, and data analytics
- Recruit, lead, mentor, and develop the team
- Promote and uphold Amanotes' culture in the team
- Define and execute monetization strategies for LiveOps products aligned with hybrid casual direction
- Apply Scrum mindset and rituals in the division's daily work
- Oversee and support the team in bringing projects from concept to release
- Manage in-house production teams, outsourcing, and publishing studios depending on project type
- Review and define collaboration models with other functional departments
- Execute and continuously improve the collaboration model
- Communicate with stakeholders including other departments and external partners
- Set and track key performance indicators for the game development team, projects, and division
- Co-create company strategy with the management team
- Co-create, demonstrate, promote, and protect company culture