About Scopely:

Scopely is a leading mobile games company home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including Scrabble® GO, MARVEL Strike Force, Star Trek™ Fleet Command, Looney Tunes™ World of Mayhem, WWE Champions, The Walking Dead: Road To Survival™, YAHTZEE® With Buddies and Wheel of Fortune®: Free Play, among others. Scopely creates rewarding, immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform that personalizes gameplay at scale across one of the most diversified portfolios in the west. Recognized in Fast Company’s ‘World’s Most Innovative Companies’ and #2 on Deloitte’s ‘Technology Fast 500’ as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America, Scopely has achieved more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue by creating game experiences that are an important part of people’s lives. Scopely has global operations in Los Angeles, Barcelona, Boulder, Dublin (DIGIT game studio), London and Tokyo, with additional studios in seven countries across four continents. For more information, visit scopely.com.

*Location: Los Angeles or Europe

The VP of Developer Partnerships, reporting to the SVP of Strategic Partnerships, you will be responsible for ensuring that Scopely’s developer partners are set up for success, serving as an initial contact within Scopely and laying the groundwork for organizational alignment between Scopely and our partners. Scopely is looking for an industry expert who understands both the challenges that mobile game developers face as well as what makes the best partnerships work.

What you will do:

You and your team will be the first point of contact for all potential new partnerships with game developers
You should understand how to identify a quality team, what their core skills are and be able to articulate that to various internal stakeholders
You will need to optimize our developer due diligence process and have an understanding of how to structure long-term deals that set up Scopely for success
Articulate the Scopely vision and how we can most effectively partner with studios
Will be responsible for managing a global team
Willingness to travel internationally and an appreciation for the way business is conducted in different parts of the world
Develop relationships over the years and have an endurance style business approach
Develop strong relationships with premier independent mobile game developers and the key people they employ, gaining an understanding of the challenges they face and goals they hope to achieve
Keep tabs on industry trends and up and coming studios by obsessively analyzing the market, playing all the new releases, and attending industry events and conferences

What you will need:

10+ years of business development, developer relations, studio management, production and/or mobile gaming experience
A deep understanding of the mobile gaming space and how it is evolving
A love of games, and particularly free-to-play mobile games
The ability to communicate in a clear yet conversational way, both written and verbally
Excellent listening skills and the ability to relate to multiple perspectives
A proactive, entrepreneurial approach; we’re looking for a self-starter who is obsessed with improving the way we work with partners and how great games are made
Creative deal-making expertise, complex deal structuring
A deep web of relationships in the developer ecosystem
Experience with venture investments and corporate development is a plus
Relationship master
Strategic thinker

Scopely is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, family or parental status, gender identity, veteran, or disability status, or other protected status.

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