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Rovio 221d ago

General Manager, new football mobile game

Barcelona,BarcelonaPermanentmid
OtherExecutiveChief Executive Officer
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Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer? Click here. Join us to shape the future of sports gaming!

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Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer? Click here.

Join us to shape the future of sports gaming! We’re looking for a General Manager in Barcelona to guide the journey of a new free-to-play football title. You'll be the ultimate strategic lead, overseeing the game's vision, financial success, and entire development lifecycle. This is a Tier 1 project with extremely high ambition, and you’ll have full profit and loss ownership. You'll play a central role in assembling a bespoke team and cultivating a supportive, high-performance culture. This is a rare chance to build a unique mobile game, delivering world-class results and a standout addition to Rovio’s portfolio.

  • Steer the multi-year game strategy as the central executive partner, fostering trust and ensuring seamless product alignment across internal teams.

  • Owning the full Profit & Loss for the game, managing the budget, and designing a world-class commercial roadmap that helps us maximize revenue.

  • Assembling and nurturing the core Barcelona development team, cultivating a high-performance culture.

  • Ensuring state-of-the-art Live Operations when we get there, including fun events, promotions, and content updates that drive daily player engagement and set a quality benchmark for the industry.

  • Fostering a data-informed team culture, using player behavior insights and analytics to anticipate market shifts and guide all of our priorities.

  • You're an expert at leading big F2P projects from the earliest prototype stage all the way into highly profitable Live Operations, ensuring the brand consistency.

  • You have a holistic understanding of the current mobile games business—from product strategy and design to user acquisition and commercial scaling—and use it to guide the big-picture development strategy.

  • You possess absolute mastery of the F2P mobile landscape, preferably in football or sports games.

  • You have a qualified, deep expertise in football or sports allowing you to genuinely connect with the domain.

  • You have a proven track record of leading diverse, global teams and excel at stakeholder management, building trust-based relationships and driving collaboration across organizations.

  • You demonstrate inspirational executive leadership with professional humility, encouraging ownership and maintaining project momentum with exceptional communication.

  • Deep executive experience with global contract negotiation

  • Enterprise-level product and market understanding that goes far beyond standard production.

  • Location & Eligibility

    Where is the job
    Barcelona
    Hybrid — some on-site time required
    Who can apply
    Same as job location
    Listed under
    Spain

    Listing Details

    Posted
    April 14, 2026
    First seen
    April 15, 2026
    Last seen
    May 5, 2026

    Posting Health

    Days active
    20
    Repost count
    0
    Trust Level
    25%
    Scored at
    May 5, 2026

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