Studio Manager Turkey Market - Lion Studios

Accountabilities: • Identify, onboard, and manage gaming studios with diverse portfolios, with a particular focus on the Turkish mobile gaming market.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with developers and studio partners, identifying opportunities for collaboration and growth. • Source and evaluate promising mobile games and studios based on market potential, player behavior, competitive dynamics, and performance indicators. • Lead the full game development lifecycle, from initial concept and ideation through production, optimization, and launch. • Conduct competitive and market analysis to understand emerging trends, user behavior, key performance metrics, and opportunities within mobile gaming. • Translate market insights into actionable product strategies, roadmaps, and priorities. • Ensure game development aligns with the wider strategic and competitive positioning of the publishing organization. • Act as an end-to-end product owner, collaborating with engineers, designers, marketers, and other stakeholders to bring game concepts and features to market. • Monitor product performance and use data-driven insights to support decisions around iteration, optimization, and future development.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in product management, project management, business development, or a related role within the mobile gaming industry. • Previous experience managing gaming studios, developer relationships, or external game-development partners is a strong advantage. • Demonstrated experience taking mobile games or applications from ideation and concept development through production and launch. • Strong understanding of mobile gaming trends, player behavior, market dynamics, and competitive landscapes. • Experience contributing to successful planning, development, optimization, and launch of mobile games. • Excellent analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to turn market and product data into clear recommendations. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. • Ability to understand technical subjects and emerging technologies and assess their relevance to products and the wider marketplace. • Comfortable working independently while also collaborating effectively within cross-functional and international teams. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities can evolve quickly. • Previous experience in a startup or similarly entrepreneurial environment is an advantage. • Native-level Turkish communication skills and professional English proficiency at B2 level or above are required, including the ability to participate in meetings, work with documentation, and communicate clearly in writing.