App Store Manager
Job Description
<p>Savvy Games Studios (SGS) mission is to create a world-leading game studios in Saudi Arabia, creating high-quality games for international audiences. </p><p><br></p><p>Also to help Saudi’s passionate gaming sector to develop homegrown IP and more broadly, make KSA a global hub for gaming.</p><p><br></p><p>As part of the SGS team, you will work alongside the best global gaming talents who have relocated to Riyadh to be part of the ambitious group, and innovative, passionate and hardworking Saudis.</p><p><br></p><p>SGS is seeking a App Store Manager to own ASO (App Store Optimization) and the Stores relationship to support SGS upcoming game titles. S/he will succeed in driving Stores partnership collaboration that fuels growth across our upcoming portfolio of mobile games. </p><p><br></p><p>We are looking for an experienced, motivated, highly organized and execution oriented individual to lead initiatives with the strategic App Stores. S/he will be the main owner of the game project details on Google Play, iOS and any relevant stores, submitting upcoming new games, updating game info to keep up with project updates and app-store visibility, working with the marketing and the production teams.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><u>Key Responsibilities:</u></p><ul><li>Own SGS App Store presence (iOS, Google Play and any other relevant stores), optimization strategy and implementation worldwide.</li><li>Act as primary point of contact for App Stores and maintain and develop the relationship with them.</li><li>Support games from pre-launch strategy through launch and beyond, by working closely with App Stores throughout all stages.</li><li>Drive organic acquisition on the Apple App Store and Google Play, leveraging every channel available to hold and optimize top ranks in stores, rank for more keywords and improve the conversion.</li><li>Develop ASO (App Store Optimization) strategies to ensure that all relevant SGS games appear at the top of the search results in all App stores.</li><li>Conduct ASO experiments using rigorous approaches and measurement methods (A/B tests, statistical methods) and prove their effectiveness.</li><li>Daily monitoring and reporting on ranks across top keywords, reviews and sentiments across stores.</li><li>Identify, acquire and roll out ASO tools and services throughout the company, manage the relationship with ASO agencies, tools and service providers.</li><li>Stay updated on industry trends and practices in SEO/ASO, and Google/Apple algorithm updates.</li><li>Working in-house and with ASO agencies to manage execution.</li><li>Ability to work with dashboards, data and data-based decision-making processes.</li><li>Collaboration with Production teams, marketing, Data and UA teams.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><u>Qualifications & Key Skills:</u></p><ul><li>BA/BS degree, MBA nice to have.</li><li>5+ years experience in ASO and Stores management for mobile games at a worldwide level.</li><li>Experienced using ASO platforms.</li><li>Excellent leadership and relationship building skills with the ability to influence internal and external partners.</li><li>Strong technical competence and ability to dive into the technical details (fluency with iOS and other operating systems).</li><li>Experience building and delivering App Stores app roadmaps.</li><li>Excellent project management skills in managing external and internal partners to propose and implement recommendations and action plans.</li><li>Strong attention to detail and ability to analyze complex problems, leading to developing and communicating recommendations and action plans to management.</li><li>Solid SEO experience is a plus.</li><li>Proficient in MS Excel / Google sheet and MS PowerPoint / Google Slides.</li><li>Strong written and spoken English.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Let’s bring Together Savvy Games Studios to the world.</p><p></p>
