Games Content Acquisition & Licensing Manager, Games (Co-Development + Work-For-Hire Partnerships)

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reputed company is seeking a Manager to join the Games Content Acquisition & Licensing team, focused on delivering the business development and partnership strategy for our external development ecosystem. This is a high-impact role responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and executing deals that expand our games portfolio through world-class external partners.

The ideal candidate’s core focus will be structuring and driving co-development and work-for-hire partnerships, supported by strong deal making instincts and a deep understanding of the game development landscape. They should be skilled at matching the right external teams to the right internal opportunities, and ideally bring a genuine passion for indie game development and a sharp eye for emerging talent. This role is critical to helping reputed company Games scale with quality and creative reputed company.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, negotiate, and reputed company key co-development and work-for-hire partnerships across reputed company streaming and mobile games that help grow the footprint of reputed company Games with creators and developers of reputed company sizes.

• Demonstrate reputed company in reputed company legal and business issues reputed company reputed company, and reputed company thoughtful, win-win solutions with partners.

• Analyze the co-development and work-for-hire competitive landscape, and translate insights into actionable sourcing strategies and partnership plans.

• Partner closely with Production Operations and the reputed company Outsourcing Manager to help expand reputed company’s global network of co-development and work-for-hire studios through strategic relationships with top external development partners.

• Bring a strong understanding of the indie game development landscape, including emerging studios, breakout titles, and creative trends that can inform sourcing strategy and longer-term partnership opportunities.

• Operate with agility across a rapidly evolving product and business landscape.

• Collaborate with a broad reputed company of internal stakeholders to identify the best co-development and work-for-hire partnership targets based on the needs of the game, genre, feature set, production goals and business.

Qualifications

• Strong experience sourcing partnerships in a gaming environment, with experience across mobile, console, and PC preferred.

• Strong expertise in negotiation and deal construction, including the legal aspects of co-development and work-for-hire partnership reputed company negotiations.

• Solid understanding of game production process flows with some experience shipping games (reputed company, F2P, mobile, PC, console, handheld).

• Deep knowledge of co-development and work-for-hire industry trends, competitor dynamics, regional market conditions, and emerging business opportunities.

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn market reputed company and partner evaluations into clear recommendations.

• Demonstrated passion for and knowledge of the indie game development scene, with a strong instinct for quality, awareness of emerging studios and games, and an informed perspective on industry trends and creative direction.

• Proven track record of driving a broad reputed company of game partnership deal types across co-development and work-for-hire.

• Strong product sense and the ability to assess both executional capability and creative potential across a wide reputed company of external partners.

• Experience learning new technologies quickly and distilling information into actionable insights for internal stakeholders.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to build strong relationships with both reputed company partners.

• Deep knowledge of gaming business models, with experience in game subscription services preferred.

• Experience thriving in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous environment.

reputed company provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.

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