Summary

Our client, one of the largest cross-platform games communities in the world and profitable since its founding over two decades ago, is looking for an entrepreneurial US Business Lead to establish and grow a sustainable, profitable US games business. This role owns the initiative end to end — from strategy and discovery through production, launch, live operations, and scale — identifying opportunities US players will love and building the team, processes, and capabilities needed for repeatable long-term growth.

General Information

•  Industry: consumergames / digital products

•  Location: EU /Germany. Hybrid, based at our client's Berlin office, with flexible working hours

•  Engagement type: permanent, full-time

•  Company context: an established, profitable games business with a large, long-running global player community

Tasks and Deliverables

•  Define and execute the US business and product strategy, including a clear two-year roadmap

•  Discover and validate high-potential game opportunities through market research, rapid experimentation, prototyping, and player testing

•  Lead promising concepts from early discovery through production, launch, live operations, and scale

•  Establish clear product-market-fit criteria and make decisive go, pivot, stop, or scale decisions

•  Own commercial performance, including retention, engagement, monetisation, growth, and unit economics

•  Build and lead a high-performing, outcome-driven US organisation with the capabilities required to succeed

•  Create repeatable discovery, launch, and scaling processes that improve over time

•  Manage the US business within the agreed strategy, budget, values, risk appetite, and governance framework

•  Align senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners around clear priorities, decisions, and outcomes

Required Experience

•  10+ years of relevant experience in games, digital products, or consumer technology businesses

•  A proven track record of building and launching successful products or businesses at scale in competitive markets

•  Deep understanding of the US games market — player behaviour, trends, competitors, and commercial opportunities

•  Strong experience across product discovery, game or product development, production, launch, and live operations

•  Proven ability to identify product-market fit and turn validated opportunities into sustainable growth

•  Strong commercial and P&L mindset, with experience managing retention, monetisation, growth,and unit economics

•  Excellent data literacy, able to make sound decisions using player insight, KPIs, experiments,and incomplete information

•  Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing, cross-functional teams

•  Entrepreneurial ownership, resilience, and the confidence to prioritise ruthlessly and take calculated risks

•  Excellent English communication and stakeholder-management skills, including experience influencing senior leaders

•  Experience operating within a flat-hierarchy, international team culture

To apply, please send...

• Detailed CV to clare@big-planet.biz with...
• Salary expectations range (essential)
• A cover letter describing your US games industry experience relvant to the role (essential). Please don't apply if you don't have US market experence.
• Notice period
• Location preference. We would ideally like a German or Berlin resident, but we can work with an EU citizen/resident working remote/hybrid on a contract basis as long as the candidate is prepared to travel