[Hiring] VP Growth & Live Games @UserWise Services

Role Description

We are looking for an exceptional VP, Growth & Live Games to lead the next stage of growth for our portfolio of mobile games. You will take ownership of validated mobile titles and transform them into successful, sustainable, large-scale businesses. This is not simply a user acquisition or marketing leadership position. You will operate as the General Manager of our growth business unit, with end-to-end responsibility for commercial performance, product development, live operations, user acquisition, and the multidisciplinary teams required to scale and operate successful live games.

• Business Unit Leadership & P&L Ownership
  • 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.
• Growth Strategy & User Acquisition
  • 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 UA expansion through rigorous management of ROAS, LTV, CAC, retention, and payback periods.
  • Build scalable creative testing and performance marketing operations.
  • Identify opportunities to expand into new markets, audiences, and acquisition channels.
  • Balance aggressive growth objectives with sustainable unit economics and profitability.
• Product Strategy & Live Operations
  • 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.
  • Continuously 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.
• Development & Operational Excellence
  • Oversee the development, engineering, QA, 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.
• Data, Analytics & Commercial Optimization
  • Establish a comprehensive performance framework across acquisition, engagement, retention, monetization, and profitability.
  • Leverage cohort analysis, predictive LTV 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.
• Team Building & Leadership
  • Recruit, develop, and lead exceptional talent across growth, UA, product management, live operations, analytics, and development.
  • Build a highly accountable, commercially focused culture that emphasizes ownership and execution.
  • Develop strong functional leaders capable of independently managing their teams and delivering against ambitious 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.

Qualifications

• 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 P&L of successful live mobile games.
• Deep understanding of mobile gaming economics, including user acquisition, ROAS, LTV, 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.

Requirements

• Commercially minded: Thinks like a business owner, not simply a functional leader.
• Highly analytical: Comfortable making significant investment and product decisions using data, forecasting, and experimentation.
• Product-oriented: Understands what makes mobile games successful and how to improve their long-term performance.
• Execution-focused: Able to translate strategy into measurable outcomes through effective teams and operating systems.
• Entrepreneurial: Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with substantial autonomy and accountability.
• Strategic but hands-on: Capable of setting long-term direction while remaining close enough to the business to identify opportunities and solve problems.

What Success Looks Like

• Revenue & Profitability: Sustained growth in revenue, contribution margin, and overall business unit profitability.
• Profitable Scaling: Significant increases in UA investment and player acquisition while maintaining attractive unit economics.
• Product Performance: Measurable improvements in retention, LTV, monetization, and long-term player engagement.
• Operational Excellence: Reliable live operations, efficient development execution, and high-quality product maintenance.
• Portfolio Growth: Successfully transitioning validated titles into scalable, commercially successful live businesses.
• Organizational Leadership: Building an exceptional team capable of independently operating and scaling multiple games.

Benefits

• Market-competitive compensation
• Paid Time Off
• Performance Bonus
• Annual Performance Reviews