Head of Studio Operations - Flutter Studios

Head of Studio Operations – Flutter Studios

Role Overview

We are looking for a Head of Studio Operations to join Flutter Studios. This newly created role is critical to scaling our multi-studio organisation as we grow our global casino games portfolio. The Head of Studio Operations will ensure our roadmaps, certification processes, delivery pipelines, and cross-studio ways of working are coordinated, efficient, predictable, and aligned with brand and market needs.

The role sits at the centre of how Flutter Studios operates and is essential to delivering quality, speed, and operational discipline across our studios.

Why We Need You

Flutter Studios is undergoing significant transformation: expanding output, improving quality, and unifying our operating model. To support this, we need an operational leader who can bring structure, clarity, and efficiency to how we plan, deliver, certify, and launch games globally.

You will ensure:

• Roadmaps are aligned with strategy and brand needs

• Delivery becomes faster, more predictable, and more cost-efficient

• Certification is managed with excellence

• Operational risk is reduced through better processes and accountability

• Cross-studio collaboration improves and becomes consistent

• Stakeholders receive clear, proactive communication

What You’ll Do

Roadmap Management

• Translate business objectives into aligned, realistic cross-studio roadmaps.

• Maintain a single source of truth roadmap with market-by-market visibility.

• Communicate risks, changes, and delays to senior stakeholders.

• Own roadmap governance processes, rituals, and tools.

• Work with the Data and Insights team on commercial and performance reporting for launched games.

Operational Excellence

• Improve delivery speed, predictability, and quality across all studios.

• Reduce certification timelines and cost, with a focus on US complexities.

• Drive efficiency across the full game development value chain.

• Build resource management practices across studios and reduce bottlenecks.

• Embed consistent cross-studio operating rhythms and ways of working.

• Act as the central point of communication for operational performance.

Certification, Compliance and Risk Management

• Own the global certification pipeline and submission workflow.

• Build and maintain relationships with compliance teams and test houses.

• Oversee processes to triage and resolve game release issues.

• Implement tracking for operational risks, dependencies, and blockers.

Strategy

• Ensure studio output aligns with Flutter Studios and brand strategies.

• Develop long-term operational strategies to improve quality, speed, and cost.

• Help shape the future development operating model for Flutter Studios.

Flutter Studios Platform

• Partner with the Platform leadership to ensure studios have the tools, processes, and support they need.

• Align studio operations with evolving platform capabilities.

Who You Are (Ideal Candidate)

• 5+ years’ experience in iGaming, ideally in operations, delivery, or production.

• Proven leadership in building or managing high-performing operational teams.

• Strong understanding of certification and regulated markets (US experience beneficial).

• Ability to drive structure and clarity in complex delivery organisations.

• Commercially minded with strong analytical and decision-making skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to simplify complexity.

• Strong stakeholder management across commercial, product, and compliance.

• Highly collaborative with strong influencing skills.

• Curious, improvement-driven, and proactive.

• Thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments across multiple geographies.

Required Skills

• Strategic and analytical thinking

• Operational leadership

• Process optimisation and project management

• Budget management

• Certification and regulatory understanding (preferred)

• Strong communication and organisational skills