May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Remote

• Lead a small game development studio.
• My responsibilities include:
• Establishing the studio and recruiting personnel
• Budgeting and P&L management
• Defining product strategy
• Pitching projects to partners
• Development planning
• Maintained a strong focus on quality control at all phases of game production
• Effectively managed three parallel mini-teams, driving cross-functional collaboration and productivity

Oct 2023 – May 2024 · 7 mos · Remote

• Development of strategy and KPIs for the Bermuda Adventures project
• Roadmap preparation and approval with stakeholders
• Creating a vision to rework the core and meta of the game
• Product quality control, review of builds and features
• Formation and control of a live-ops plan

Jan 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• I raised series A investments and co-founded a company that focuses on developing mobile hyper-casual and casual games. We launched 3 hit titles: Become a Queen, Escape From School and Detective Masters.
• Led the development of over 30 games in total, 3 of which were released globally
• Team management of up to 50
• Investors and publishers relations; raised Series A round of investments
• Responsible for company strategy and budget planning
• Market analysis, search for promising game ideas
• Led the team through crises, ups and downs, and (literally) war
• Company building from 0 to 1

Sep 2020 – Mar 2021 · 6 mos

• Developed game concepts
• Reviewed and improved narrative of several projects in development
• Helped teams to deliver in time features that will match high-quality standards
• Successfully reanimated the soft-launch of an unannounced project
• Gave high-level feedback on all aspects of the key builds
• Implemented a new pipeline of narrative design throughout the company

May 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Formed a vision of the narrative for an unannounced story-driven game
• Created several scripts in different genres, from romantic comedy to urban fantasy
• Assembled, trained, and supervised a narrative team of 20
• Responsible for the overall product quality including narrative, art, game flow, animations, UI
• Worked closely with producers and PM on project scheduling

Apr 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Run the creative part of the Homescapes story and rooms' development from the initial idea to the final product
• Wrote synopsis, dialogues, and directed in-game scenes & motion comics
• Collaborated with art, animation, and sound design departments to ensure that all aspects fit the story perfectly

Sep 2020 – Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• I consult on product and marketing aspects of casual and hybrid-casual games.
• Advise on the production pipeline
• Share industry insights and best practices
• Tune difficulty curve and improve level funnel, reduce churn rate and increase payments on paywalls
• Give high-level feedback on narrative and meta; help to re-create the storyline
• Helped Garden Affairs team to recreate narrative, tune levels difficulty and increase ARPPU

Jun 2014 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Moscow, Russia

• I've co-founded an indie game company Dino Games and worked there as a Creative Director. I supervised all main parts of the game design, including shaping the overall concept, writing the script, development of game mechanics and transferred the vision to the team. As CEO, I also actively participated in business planning, project management, and investors relations.