Strategic Partnerships Lead

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3 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
Senior level
Gaming • Esports
The Role
Lead strategic partnerships for Rovio's portfolio, focusing on relationships with major platforms like Apple and Google, ensuring successful marketing execution and collaboration across teams.
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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.

We’re looking for a Strategic Partnerships Lead to join our Central Marketing team and elevate how we connect with the world's biggest platforms and brands. You operate at the intersection of platform strategy, brand partnerships, and game marketing execution directly contributing to how players discover our games and how our business grows. You'll own our most critical external relationships - including Apple and Google - ensuring our portfolio shines on the global stage. You are a multifaceted, highly proactive professional who will thrive at communicating, managing multiple topics, and bringing people together both internally and externally to ensure project success. 

This is a senior role, reporting directly to our VP of Global Marketing, working across our studios and can be located in either Helsinki, Stockholm, or Barcelona.

You will have impact and fun at work by:

  • Acting as Rovio’s primary global day-to-day lead for Apple and Google partnerships and relations.

  • Driving alignment between platform opportunities and Rovio’s portfolio marketing priorities.

  • Collaborating cross-functionally to maximize the impact of featuring, new tools, and major marketing campaigns.

  • Executing new strategic brand partnerships by acting as the central bridge between external partners and our internal game teams.

  • Orchestrating seamless delivery across marketing, product, legal, and analytics to ensure every partnership creates value for our players.

  • Building scalable processes and best practices that support and grow Rovio’s expanding partnership ecosystem.

  • Tracking and sharing performance insights to continuously improve how we work with our global partners.

Experience and skills we are looking for:

  • Your extensive experience in games, tech or consumer digital businesses helps you navigate partner relationships complexity with ease.

  • You have a solid knowledge of the mobile games industry, and have a proven history of nurturing strategic relationships that drive business growth across the industries you have worked for.

  • You have experience managing relationships with large partners like Apple, Google or Meta, or major brand partnerships.

  • Your stakeholder management skills allow you to earn trust and build strong connections with senior teams, both internally and externally and you have track record of delivering successful marketing initiatives in matrixed, cross-functional organizations

  • You are an expert in building and giving engaging presentations, turning often complex topics into highly simple communication, leading through influence.

  • Your commercial acumen helps you connect creative marketing initiatives directly to revenue and brand impact.

  • You communicate with high clarity in English, making it easy to share your proposals & insights through written plans, but primarily through visual and oral presentations.

It would be nice if you also have the following skills:

  • Existing relationships with marketing leads at Apple, Google, or other major global brands.

Please send your CV in English. We look forward to speaking to you!


We welcome applicants to use the name they want to be addressed by in the application form, regardless of whether it is their legal name.

At Rovio, we are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or conditions in our working environment and job application procedures. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. If you have any questions before applying, please write to us at [email protected].

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Skills Required

  • Extensive experience in games, tech, or consumer digital businesses
  • Solid knowledge of mobile games industry
  • Experience managing relationships with large partners
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
  • Expertise in creating presentations
  • Commercial acumen to connect marketing to revenue
  • High English communication clarity
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The Company
Espoo,
605 Employees
Year Founded: 2003

What We Do

Rovio Entertainment Ltd. is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has seven game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Barcelona (Spain), Montreal and Toronto (Canada), as well as a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. In 2023, Sega Europe Limited acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares, making Rovio a subsidiary of Sega

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