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Operations Manager - Casual Publishing Shanghai

Voodoo is a Tech company that creates and publishes hyper-casual and casual mobile games for a wide audience. It is the worldwide leader in the mobile game market through snackable, innovative and creative content combining data and new technologies.

The company raised $200M in 2018 and we have been certified a Great Place to Work France 2020 and Best Workplace 2021. More recently, Tencent has become a minority stakeholder in Voodoo, with a role in framing our strategy to dominate the Asia Pacific region.

#1 worldwide in mobile game downloads, and regularly at the top of the App Store rankings, our games have about 300 million monthly active users and more than 5 billion downloads since our creation. Voodoo is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having multiplied its turnover by 5 over the past few years.

With more than 360 employees around the world, we would love you to apply to join an ambitious, innovative and international company!

We recruit passionate and creative profiles, who seek to harness the power of data and new technologies to disrupt the mobile market. Driven by a test-and-learn culture, we welcome talented people wishing to undertake and manage unique, ambitious and challenging projects. Our goal is to foster excellence at all levels -individual, team and company, which to us means solving problems by breaking the rules, learning fast and autonomously and delivering with the best execution.

Before applying, you need to know that the company’s Culture is very important to us. Our employees evolve within an environment designed to be fulfilling. Life at Voodoo is characterised by numerous events throughout the year that allow you to feel fully integrated into the team and to get involved in creative and innovative projects. Among them: onboarding programs, our annual global summit, other company-wide events, hackathons, game jams, wellness events and more.

Voodoo is seeking for Operation Manager (Causal Publishing) who will be responsible for the operation of publishing casual games developed by China studios. The key deliveries include finding the suitable casual products/studios; building sustainable partnership around them; defining the operational KPIs, and developing a publishing strategy to achieve them.

To be successful in this role, you should be a thoughtful leader with first-hand experience of launching operations for casual games, a data-oriented person, and a confident decision-maker who derives satisfaction by helping our people develop process and drive productivity.

- Identify target opportunities to complement and expand the reach and attractiveness for Voodoo in casual market through partnership with China-based studios

- Identify target and drive casual studios partners for publishing their casual games in China and ROW, including its culturalized, customized, and ported versions for technical platforms

- Responsible for understanding China markets, and using competitive insights to create actionable operational plans and leveraging/extending product nuances into strategic recommendations to deliver success

- Establish and maintain exceptional partner relationships with the necessary partner stakeholders for the purpose of sustaining and expanding cooperation

- Collaborate with individuals and teams across the organization to assist in the successful execution of casual projects, and to partner with casual studios

- Analysing data sets representing the behavior of casual players and providing actionable recommendations and conclusions for better drive casual publishing operation

- Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field

- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in both Mandarin and English; French is a plus

- Self-motivated with strong propensity for action, results and continuous improvement

- The ability to work successfully in a high-energy, fast paced, rapidly changing environment is necessary

- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and manage multiple processes, programs, and procedures simultaneously while working under pressure to meet deadlines

- Ability to differentiate and successfully position new, disruptive solutions

- Ability to participate effectively in cross-functional teams and work well in a matrixed management environment

- Ability to manage and report on simultaneous partner engagements, across an account base excellent critical thinking and analytical skills a must

- You have a passion (arts, music, sports, etc.)

Competitive compensation package ⧫ Phantom shares ⧫ Remote days ⧫ Lunch card ⧫ Wellness activities ⧫ Hackathon ⧫ Seminars ⧫ Global Summit

We are offering all members of staff a flexible vacation policy, allowing them to take as many paid days off as they wish as long as the work is done and objectives are achieved.

Our recruitment process typically includes a call with our recruitment team, as well as interviews with your future manager and team members focusing on job fit. Lastly, a test /case study will feature at some point in your process.