Description
Scopely Explore (formerly known as Niantic), the creator of hit games including Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, Monster Hunter Now, and is seeking a General Manager to lead the Monster Hunter Now franchise. You will lead a talented, fast paced, multi-disciplinary team of game makers based in Tokyo, with supporting team members in San Francisco, Culver City and Seattle. You will be responsible for driving the end to end game vision, franchise strategy, and ultimately business results. Your role will be central in living up to the ambitious vision for Monster Hunter Now, inspiring millions of players to get out, go hunt, and grow stronger together.
What you will do
- Manage the game leadership team, developing leaders across disciplines including Design, Product, Production, and Engineering
- Build a franchise strategy that delivers strong business results across a multi-year time horizon
- Drive rigor across the product development process, actively engaging in the roadmap, production pipeline, and live ops calendar development
- Proactively drive the adoption of AI to accelerate productivity, leading from the front by building and utilizing on a daily basis
- Participate in Product Reviews, providing feedback and coaching to ensure excellent, mission aligned product design for all features
- Take accountability for driving KPI impact via a well executed Product, Live Ops and Data strategy
- Drive market analysis, user research, and knowledge sharing across the team to drive more effective decision making
- Build a strong, collaborative relationship with IP holders, ensuring brand integrity and generating concepts (both in game and marketing) that resonate with fans
- Develop a deeply integrated audience strategy working across both Product and Marketing to drive player growth
- Represent the Monster Hunter Now team and franchise in executive forums with leadership from across Scopely Explore and Scopely
- Craft and execute a thoughtful AI strategy to augment the performance of both the team and the game using forward looking technology
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and leadership of key meetings
- Act as a driver of culture on the team, fostering learning, collaboration, player centricity, and excellence with an outcome oriented mindset
- Required in-office 3 days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
What you will need
- 10+ years leadership experience in free to play gaming, with hands on experience in Product, Design and/or Production
- Track record of operating and scaling successful free to play mobile games post-launch
- Experience managing roadmaps and shipping KPI impacting features
- Deep understanding of content development and live operations in midcore games
- Management experience across creative and analytical disciplines including Product, Design, Live Operations and Production
- Expertise with analyzing and interpreting data to make data informed decisions
- Excellent verbal and written communication in both English and Japanese
- Comfort partnering with and influencing executive stakeholders across time zones and geographies
- Ability to manage, coach, and lead by example to develop team members
- Flexibility in a demanding team environment
- Passion for video games; an avid gamer with a proven understanding of mobile games
- Have worked in a leadership role on a high profile game with a significant amount of daily active users
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others
- Belief in the value of bringing people together through games to explore in the real world
- Based in, or able to relocate and work in Japan
Plus If...!
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Deep understanding and/or fandom of the Monster Hunter franchise
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Familiarity as a player with Monster Hunter Now, Pikmin Bloom, and/or Pokemon Go
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Experience, interest, and excitement around AR/location based games or features
About Scopely
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/.
Notice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official website and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @scopely.com.
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Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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