Are you ready to drive the future of Paradox’s licensing business? As our Licensing Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to make a lasting impact by building high-value partnerships and delivering exceptional licensed products that expand our franchises into exciting new realms.

Your mission

This role is all about ownership and self-leadership. You’ll run with the business plan, driving sales activities to hit ambitious revenue targets and seize every growth opportunity. You’ll be the force that helps partners bring top-quality licensed products to market, bringing Paradox's worlds to life for fans everywhere.

We need a Licensing Manager with a get-it-done attitude who’s hunting for new partnerships and cross-brand collaborations that can elevate our franchises. With your proactive mindset and strategic vision, you’ll lead our licensing business, making sure our franchises excel across diverse product categories with a primary focus on mobile games.

Key Responsibilities

Own the business plan and execute on sales activities to achieve annual revenue targets for our licensing business

Empower partners to launch high-quality licensed products, with a primary focus on mobile games, while also exploring opportunities in PC/console games, tabletop games, and other product categories.

Be on the constant lookout for new partnerships and cross brand collaboration opportunities that could benefit our franchises

Set the direction and develop our Merchandising business

What we’re searching for…

Bachelor’s degree in economics, business or other relevant field
A minimum of 3+ years of experience in licensing, preferably in the games industry
Strong sales and negotiation skills
Exceptional collaboration and relationship building skills
Excellent English, both written and spoken

This position requires travel to fairs, exhibitions and events to network, build relationships and promote our licensing initiatives.

Practical information

Full time and permanent

Reports to: Chief Business Officer

Location: Stockholm

About The Company

Paradox Interactive is a leading, global publisher of deep, replayable games.

We create intellectually challenging games, with long lifespans and a vibrant player communities. Our heart and soul lies in strategy and management games but we occasionally make calculated bets in other genres where we believe there is break-out potential.

Our steadily-growing portfolio includes titles from established series like Crusader Kings, Cities: Skylines, Europa Universalis, Stellaris and Hearts of Iron. Millions of people from all over the world play our games every month, and participate in their continuous development through their purchases and insights they share with us.

Paradox offices are located in Sweden, France, Netherlands, Finland and USA, and each houses creative staff, skilled in a wide variety of areas of expertise. No matter the specialization, each of us contributes to giving our players the best game experiences and value for their money and time.

Everyone at Paradox is expected to know our players, why they love our games and have an awareness of how their work impacts them in the end. We foster highly-engaged communities, where we encourage our fans to share their sentiment, and empower our colleagues to turn that feedback into action that benefits both our business and fans.

If that sounds good, and you share our vision, we’d love you to join us. Check out our career page: https://career.paradoxplaza.com/#jobs