Studio Director – Casual Games

About the job:
Full-time
Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 7 billion downloads and over 150 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta.

 

The company is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having raised over $1B and backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent, and GBL.

 

Voodoo is now a team of over 750 employees worldwide, we’re looking for talented individuals from across the globe to come and entertain the world with us.

 

 

 

The full-remote option is accepted only if you reside in a country where the company has a legal entity.

 

Team

 

Our Gaming team is made up of hybrid-casual, casual and mid-core experts. Our ‘Core’ games team supports internal and external studios worldwide in creating, developing and launching new hit games, whilst our ‘Live’ games team focuses on delivering higher engagement on our existing and successful games.

 

Joining our Live games team means collaborating with gaming industry experts on globally renowned, enduring games, while embracing exciting new entrepreneurial ventures. With over seven billion downloads worldwide and a portfolio of more than 10 resilient hybrid games generating more than $20m per year, we are the largest and most successful hybrid publisher in the world.

 

Voodoo is creating a small experimentation team with a big mission: find the next best way to entertain the world by taking our best hits to a new level.

You will be one of the first members in a team of six and you will participate in every aspect of development, from ideation to testing the casual games in the market.

 

The ‘Live’ games team is working on hybrid-casual games like:

Mob Control

Collect Em All

Uboat Attack

Bubble Fall

Block Jam 3D

 

Role
Build your team and ensure that your team reaches their goals
Lead, inspire and motivate the teams working on the games, and maintain enthusiasm for the project
Improve continuously the internal process of game creation
Push updates with gameplay, meta-features and monetisation AB tests at a high pace
Follow and improve Voodoo’s management guidelines and onboarding processes
Manage your team’s HR in order to keep only A players and help them to grow
Share your knowledge company-wide and help others grow their skills
Monitor and improve game metrics 
Be involved in all aspects of game development: UI, UX, game design, technical

 

Profile
Strong analytical skills and are detail and data-oriented
Passion for mobile games
Excellent communication, organization, execution skills
Good game UX knowledge,
Mobile F2P market experiences, track record with a successful mobile game
Speak and write English
Understanding of game design