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CEO / Co-founder - Remote (Europe preferred)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Europe
Experience
3 years
Job description
CEO / Co-founder role to launch and lead a new B2B real-money game provider backed by a private investment group of technology entrepreneurs. The role owns market strategy, P&L, the leadership team, game production, distribution, operator launches and portfolio economics.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
What you'll do
- Develop an evidence-based market thesis, defining priority GEOs, customer segments, competitors, portfolio positioning and distribution channels.
- Build the operating model, leadership structure and game-production system required to launch and scale the provider.
- Agree and manage a game release roadmap with clear quality controls and the capacity to achieve the agreed annual release cadence.
- Take the first games through production, certification, integration, operator launch and monetisation.
- Develop a qualified commercial pipeline of operators, aggregators and platform partners.
- Drive the full commercial journey from qualified lead to contract, integration, live launch, game visibility, promotional support and revenue.
- Secure meaningful lobby placements and promotional commitments with operators, rather than focusing solely on making games technically available.
- Own the P&L, cash plan, financial forecasting and unit economics by game, operator, GEO and distribution channel.
- Propose changes to organisational structure and leadership to the Board, then implement agreed decisions.
- Create a unified management dashboard with consistent, clearly defined delivery, distribution, player, revenue and reliability metrics.
- Use AI where it measurably reduces production cycle time or cost, or increases throughput, without compromising quality, compliance or originality.
What we're looking for
- Direct senior leadership experience inside a B2B real-money game provider, specifically slots, instant or crash games. Experience solely with a casino operator, platform, affiliate, payments business or general B2C product is not a substitute for provider experience.
- A demonstrable track record of building a provider from the ground up or materially scaling a provider, a game portfolio or its commercial distribution.
- An active personal network of operators, aggregators and platforms that can be put to work, supported by evidence of completed launches, live integrations and revenue-producing relationships.
- P&L ownership or comparable responsibility for the economics and performance of the business as a whole.
- A genuinely hands-on management style, with examples of personally diagnosing and resolving delivery, commercial or organisational bottlenecks.
- Strong product-market judgement: the ability to explain which games and providers perform in specific GEOs, how game mechanics and mathematics influence commercial outcomes, and how to translate that insight into a portfolio investment thesis.
- Experience hiring, developing and leading an effective core team, and establishing practical management routines.
- A career track record consistent with taking on a multi-year business-building assignment.
Nice to have
- The ideal background is a current or former CEO or Co-founder of a game provider. We will also consider a CCO or COO from a provider with genuine P&L ownership, cross-functional leadership and experience building the business and its distribution. Leadership of a successful 20–30-person provider team may be relevant where that team delivered and monetised a strong portfolio; bringing a proven core
Benefits
Business-wide responsibility: Shape the market approach, operating model, portfolio and team while working closely with the Board.
Flexible and competitive compensation: Our client is open to discussing attractive, individually tailored terms with exceptional candidates and a proven track record.
Participation in outcomes: Performance-based incentives, profit participation or equity arrangements will be discussed as part of an individually tailored arrangement.
- Build a new business: Lead the launch and commercial development of an international B2B real-money game provider.
- Experienced investment backing: Work with established technology entrepreneurs supporting a new gaming business.
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About Emerald Zebra
Key facts
- Our client is a private investment group led by accomplished technology entrepreneurs with experience building and scaling international businesses.
- The group is backing the launch of a new B2B real-money game provider, with the objective of building a fully operational, revenue-generating business serving casino operators, aggregators and platfor