As Head of LiveOps at Uplive, you will lead the most crucial division of our business, managing high-impact titles such as. Your role is to drive growth by creating and executing robust product strategies, ensuring operational excellence, and cultivating a high-performing team culture. You will play a key part in Uplive's hybrid transformation, optimizing LiveOps, monetization strategies, and product practices through innovation and automation.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Game Strategy Leadership:
- Division Strategy Development: Formulate and lead the division's strategy, aligning with Uplive's overarching goals, market insights, and team capabilities.
- Resource Management: Identify gaps in resources or skills and ensure they are filled effectively to support team success.
- Game Expansion & Monetization: Drive the creation of new features, market expansion strategies, and monetization methods for Uplive's top-performing titles.
AI Integration & Advancement:
- Stay Ahead of AI Trends: Keep Uplive informed on relevant AI innovations and integrate them to streamline production and optimize LiveOps.
- AI Applications: Apply AI-driven tools to enhance efficiency in production, LiveOps, and operational processes.
Infrastructure and Tool Development:
- Reusable Product Strategies: Lead product strategies that allow for cross-game reusability and scalability.
- Tool & Infrastructure Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and build the infrastructure and tools needed to support scalable operations and automation.
Team Leadership & Development:
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Guide and mentor a diverse, cross-functional team including product managers, game designers, engineers, data analysts, and monetization experts.
- Promote Uplive’s Culture: Lead by example to uphold Uplive's core values and culture across the team.
- Team Growth: Recruit and develop talent while maintaining a high-performance, innovative, and collaborative environment.
- Monetization Strategy & Execution:
- Monetization Plans: Develop and implement effective monetization strategies for Uplive’s LiveOps products, focusing on the hybrid casual model.
- Retention & Engagement: Drive user retention strategies and optimize monetization mechanics to maximize game revenue.
Project Management with Scrum Framework:
- Agile Execution: Apply Scrum principles and methodologies to manage day-to-day operations, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Project Oversight: Ensure seamless execution of projects from ideation through to release, optimizing resources and budget allocation across teams.
Performance & KPI Management:
- Setting KPIs: Establish and track key performance indicators for game teams, projects, and the division, ensuring that objectives are met and exceeded.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Use KPIs to drive continuous improvement and strategic decision-making.
Contributing to Company Strategy & Culture:
- Strategic Contributions: Act as a key collaborator in shaping Uplive's company strategy, offering insights and feedback to senior management.
- Cultural Leadership: Help co-create, maintain, and promote Uplive’s company culture, aligning it with our growth and long-term vision.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience: 7+ years in mobile game or app development, with significant experience in LiveOps and hybrid casual titles.
- LiveOps Expertise: Demonstrated success in designing and scaling LiveOps systems, including retention strategies and monetization models.
- AI Knowledge: Experience implementing AI products or tools to enhance LiveOps and production workflows.
- Leadership Experience: At least 5 years in leadership positions, known for building high-performing teams and providing clear direction.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to move from high-level strategy to tactical execution, balancing long-term goals with short-term needs.
- Adaptability & Resilience: Skilled at handling ambiguity, shifting priorities, and working in fast-paced environments.
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex concepts into clear directives for diverse teams.
- Mobile Game & Ad Tech Knowledge: Solid understanding of the mobile gaming ecosystem and ad tech.
- Passion for Music & Games: Genuine excitement for crafting music-based game experiences that resonate with players.
- Language: Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive salary, 100% salary during probation
- Performance bonus with 30% of company profit shared with no cap
- Full SHUI as Vietnamese Law + Premium Private Medical Insurance and annual health check
- Minimum 12 days paid annual leave + 10 days paid sick leave.
- 12 days working from home per year
- Annual flexi-budget (9.400.000 VNĐ/year) for well-being & personal development
- Free daily lunch with 10+ menu options.
- Free daily F&B: Snacks, juice, beverage, tea-time
- Monthly/Bi-monthly team activity allowance
- Company learning trip will be top of countries that we gain most profit. 1st is Korea, next destination is Japan
- Sponsored sports activities: badminton, soccer, ...
- Sponsored overseas conferences and industry events for all levels.
- Modern equipments/AI tool provided.
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