General Manager, new football mobile game

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Join us to shape the future of sports gaming! We’re looking for a General Manager in Barcelona to guide the journey of a new free-to-play football title. You'll be the ultimate strategic lead, overseeing the game's vision, financial success, and entire development lifecycle. This is a Tier 1 project with extremely high ambition, and you’ll have full profit and loss ownership. You'll play a central role in assembling a bespoke team and cultivating a supportive, high-performance culture. This is a rare chance to build a unique mobile game, delivering world-class results and a standout addition to Rovio’s portfolio.

You will have impact and fun at work by

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Steer the multi-year game strategy as the central executive partner, fostering trust and ensuring seamless product alignment across internal teams.

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Owning the full Profit & Loss for the game, managing the budget, and designing a world-class commercial roadmap that helps us maximize revenue.

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Assembling and nurturing the core Barcelona development team, cultivating a high-performance culture.

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Ensuring state-of-the-art Live Operations when we get there, including fun events, promotions, and content updates that drive daily player engagement and set a quality benchmark for the industry.

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Fostering a data-informed team culture, using player behavior insights and analytics to anticipate market shifts and guide all of our priorities.

Experience and skills we are looking for

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You're an expert at leading big F2P projects from the earliest prototype stage all the way into highly profitable Live Operations, ensuring the brand consistency.

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You have a holistic understanding of the current mobile games business—from product strategy and design to user acquisition and commercial scaling—and use it to guide the big-picture development strategy.

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You possess absolute mastery of the F2P mobile landscape, preferably in football or sports games.

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You have a qualified, deep expertise in football or sports allowing you to genuinely connect with the domain.

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You have a proven track record of leading diverse, global teams and excel at stakeholder management, building trust-based relationships and driving collaboration across organizations.

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You demonstrate inspirational executive leadership with professional humility, encouraging ownership and maintaining project momentum with exceptional communication.

It would be nice if you also have the following skills

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• Deep executive experience with global contract negotiation
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• Enterprise-level product and market understanding that goes far beyond standard production.