10 Sep
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Games Keeda
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Noida
Job Description
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
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Type: Full-time | Co-Founder
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Compensation: Salary + meaningful ESOP/equity stake
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About the Company
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We are building a current-age mobile gaming studio in Noida focused on creating and launching multiple highly engaging mobile games every year.
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Our ambition is to build a lean, data-driven gaming company that can rapidly prototype, launch, test and scale games for global audiences.
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We are looking for an entrepreneurial Co-Founder – Mobile Gaming who will take ownership of the gaming business end-to-end.
The Opportunityn
This is not a traditional employment role.
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As Co-Founder, you will be responsible for building and leading the game development organization, establishing the development process, hiring the core team, defining the technology and product strategy, and ultimately helping create a portfolio of successful mobile games.
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You will have significant autonomy and meaningful ESOPs, aligned with the long-term success of the company.
Key Responsibilitiesn
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- Build and lead the mobile game development team from the ground up.
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- Own the end-to-end game development lifecycle — ideation → prototyping → development → launch → live operations → scaling.
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- Establish a high-performance development culture and processes.
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- Recruit, mentor and manage game developers, designers, artists, QA and other key team members.
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- Work closely with the founders on identifying high-potential game concepts and genres.
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- Drive rapid prototyping and testing of new game ideas.
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- Ensure games are delivered quickly without compromising quality.
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- Own technology decisions, development tools, architecture and technical standards.
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- Use player data, analytics and market trends to continuously improve games.
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- Work closely with product, design, art and marketing teams.
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- Build processes that allow the studio to launch games at scale.
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- Eventually take responsibility for the studio's overall game development P&L; and growth.
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Who We're Looking Forn
We are looking for someone who has already led a mobile game development team and wants to take the next step from being an employee/leader to becoming a co-founder and builder.
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Must have:
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- 7+ years of experience in mobile game development or closely related gaming roles.
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- Proven experience leading a team of game developers.
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- Strong understanding of mobile game development and the complete development lifecycle.
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- Experience shipping games that have been released to the App Store / Google Play.
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- Strong understanding of Unity and/or other major mobile game development technologies.
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- Experience managing developers and working cross-functionally with artists, designers and product teams.
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- Strong product thinking — ability to understand what makes a mobile game addictive, engaging and commercially successful.
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- Ability to operate in a highly entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment.
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- Excellent communication and people-management skills.
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Strongly Preferredn
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- Experience working at a successful mobile gaming studio.
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- Experience launching multiple mobile games.
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- Experience with casual, hyper-casual,
hybrid-casual or puzzle games.
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- Experience with game analytics, retention, monetization and live-ops.
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- Experience building a team from scratch.
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- Experience taking games from 0 → 1.
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- Entrepreneurial experience or previous startup experience.
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- A portfolio of commercially successful mobile games.
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The Kind of Person We're Looking Forn
You should be someone who:
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- Thinks like a founder, not an employee.
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- Is obsessed with games and understands why players keep coming back.
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- Can move extremely quickly and make decisions with imperfect information.
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- Is equally comfortable discussing game mechanics, technology, hiring and business strategy.
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- Wants to build something rather than simply manage an existing team.
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- Has the ambition to build a large global gaming company from Noida.
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What We Offernn
- Co-Founder title and significant ownership in the company
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- Meaningful ESOP package with long-term upside
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- Competitive fixed salary
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- Freedom to build and lead your own team
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- Significant autonomy over technology and development
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- Direct involvement in company strategy and decision-making
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- Opportunity to build a gaming studio from the ground up
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- A highly entrepreneurial environment with the resources to execute aggressively
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Why This Role Is Differentn
You won't be joining us to manage an existing studio.
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You will help build the studio.
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If you have spent the last several years leading game-development teams and have ever thought, “I could build a gaming company myself,” this is the chance to do exactly that.
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Location: Noida
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Experience: 7+ years
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Role: Co-Founder – Mobile Gaming Studio
📌 Co-Founder - Mobile Gaming Studio (Noida)
🏢 Games Keeda
📍 Noida