Strategic Partner

Strategic Partner Liquidnitro Games | Hyderabad, India About Liquidnitro Games Liquidnitro Games is a game development company built to create, launch, and scale ambitious games for a global audience. Founded by industry veterans with deep experience across free-to-play, live services, and large-scale game production agnostic of platforms, we bring together product thinking, design craft, engineering depth, art execution, data, and live operations under one roof. We build games from the ground up, take new ideas from 0 to 1, and work with select partners to strengthen, scale, and operate high-quality game experiences. Our teams combine creative ownership with production discipline, helping projects move from early prototypes to validated products, and from launch to long-term growth. At Liquidnitro, we are building the next generation of game teams, products, and tools from India for the global games industry. About the Role We are looking for a Strategic Partner to help identify, develop, and execute growth opportunities across the global games ecosystem. Working closely with our leadership, regional business development teams, and product teams, you will help shape strategic partnerships, evaluate commercial opportunities, and translate ideas into actionable business initiatives. This is a role for someone who combines strategic thinking, analytical rigor, commercial acumen, and strong execution. You should be equally comfortable researching a new market, building a business case, developing a partner pitch, or working directly with stakeholders to advance an opportunity. Depending on experience, you will either independently drive strategic initiatives or work closely with our strategic partnerships leadership to build and scale them. What You'll Do •Partnership Strategy: Identify, evaluate, and develop strategic partnership opportunities with game publishers, developers, platforms, IP owners, and technology companies across global markets. •Business Development & GTM: Collaborate with regional BD teams to shape go-to-market strategies, partner propositions, market-entry approaches, and commercial opportunities. •Strategic Analysis: Research markets, companies, gaming portfolios, industry trends, and competitive dynamics to identify opportunities and inform business decisions. •Commercial Evaluation: Build business cases, financial models, commercial proposals, and partnership structures to evaluate opportunities and support negotiations. •Partner Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with existing and prospective partners, supporting conversations from initial exploration through commercial alignment and execution. •Strategic Initiatives: Support and independently drive initiatives involving co-development, co-investment, publishing partnerships, new business models, and market expansion. •Executive Communication: Develop high-quality strategic presentations, investment briefs, partnership proposals, and decision-making materials for internal leadership and external partners. •Cross-functional Execution: Work closely with Product, Creative, Technology, Finance, Legal, and BD teams to turn partnership opportunities into executable plans with clear ownership and outcomes. •Opportunity Management: Track strategic opportunities, partnership progress, commercial milestones, and emerging risks to ensure initiatives move forward. •Industry Intelligence: Build a strong understanding of the global gaming ecosystem, identifying emerging business models, technologies, companies, and market shifts relevant to Liquidnitro's growth. What You'll Bring •4+ years of relevant experience in strategic partnerships, corporate strategy, business development, investment analysis, management consulting, gaming, or related fields. •Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with experience evaluating business opportunities, markets, companies, or commercial models. •Sound commercial judgment and the ability to understand business models, financial implications, partnership economics, and strategic trade-offs. •Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to distill complex information into clear recommendations. •Experience working with multiple stakeholders and driving cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution. •Ability to independently structure ambiguous problems, conduct research, develop recommendations, and take ownership of outcomes. •Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, including comfort interacting with senior business leaders. •High proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, PowerPoint or Google Slides, and modern research and productivity tools. •Genuine curiosity about the games industry, its business models, players, publishers, platforms, and evolving ecosystem. Bonus Points •Experience in the games industry, particularly across publishers, game studios, gaming investments, or platform partnerships. •Background in venture capital, private equity, investment banking, corporate development, or M&A. •Familiarity with game development, live services, free-to-play business models, monetization, and user acquisition. •Experience supporting or structuring complex commercial partnerships, co-investments, or joint ventures. •Exposure to international markets and relationships within the global gaming ecosystem. •Experience using AI tools for research, analysis, financial modeling, and business productivity. Why Join Us At Liquidnitro Games, you will work at the intersection of gaming, strategy, investment, and global partnerships. You will have the opportunity to work closely with experienced gaming leaders, influence important business decisions, and contribute to partnerships that shape the company's long-term growth. This is not a role limited to managing relationships or preparing strategy presentations. You will help turn business opportunities into real partnerships, products, and outcomes. If you enjoy connecting the dots between companies, markets, people, and ideas, and have the drive to turn strategic thinking into meaningful execution, we would love to hear from you.