Partnerships & Business Operations Manager

Wolf Games•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

The Role Wolf is looking for a Partnerships & Business Operations Manager to help turn important partnerships and company initiatives into products and experiences people can actually play. Signing a partnership is only the beginning. Teams need to align, decisions need to get made, assets and approvals need to arrive, and product, engineering, creative, commercial, and partner work all need to stay connected. Your job is to help make that happen. You’ll work directly with Wolf’s founders and across Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Creative, Marketing, Legal, and external partner teams. You’ll help create structure around ambiguous work, turn conversations into action, and make sure important details don’t fall through the cracks. You’ll sit close to the center of the business, seeing firsthand how partnerships become products and how product, technology, creative, commercial, and audience strategy come together. Some days that means thinking through a new opportunity; others, it means tracking down a missing asset or decision blocking a launch. Wolf is still early, and the partnerships, products, and ways we operate are being built today. You’ll start with defined pieces of important initiatives and take on increasingly meaningful ownership as you demonstrate judgment, reliability, and follow-through.

Requirements

Exceptionally organized. You keep track of details, commitments, and deadlines, and rarely let things fall through the cracks.
Learn quickly. You’re curious, ask good questions, and can get up to speed on unfamiliar products, technologies, and business problems.
Great with people. You communicate clearly, build relationships easily, and are comfortable working with different personalities and functions.
Turn ambiguity into action. When something isn’t clearly defined, your instinct is to figure out what’s needed and what should happen next.
Follow through. If you say you’ll do something, people can trust that it will get done.
Clear communicator. You can listen to a complicated conversation and pull out the important decisions, questions, and next steps.
Notice things. Missing information, unclear ownership, potential problems, and loose ends tend to stand out to you.
Good judgment—and want to develop more of it. You’re comfortable making progress independently but know when to ask questions or pull someone in.
Willing to do whatever the work requires. You’re as comfortable thinking through a bigger problem as you are tracking down a missing asset or following up on an overdue decision.
Want responsibility. You’re early in your career and excited by the opportunity to learn quickly, prove yourself, and earn increasingly significant ownership.
Roughly 2-5 years of experience, but capability, trajectory, and demonstrated ownership are more important than tenure.

Nice To Haves

Business or startup operations
Strategy & operations
Partnerships
Program or project management
Product operations
Consulting
Implementation or solutions
Media, entertainment, gaming, or technology
Taken ownership of something and made it happen —whether that means shipping a cross-functional project, coordinating internal and external stakeholders, building a useful process or system, or becoming the person a team relied on to keep complicated work moving.

Responsibilities

Turn Partnerships Into Products: Help move partnerships from agreement or idea through development, launch, and expansion.
Turn partner conversations and commitments into clear owners, actions, and next steps.
Keep track of deliverables, assets, approvals, timelines, and dependencies across Wolf and partner teams.
Prepare for partner meetings, capture decisions, and make sure follow-ups happen.
Build strong relationships with partner teams and grow into a trusted day-to-day counterpart.
Drive Cross-Functional Execution: Help build and manage plans for partner initiatives, products, and launches.
Coordinate across Product, Engineering, Creative, Marketing, and external teams.
Keep owners, milestones, decisions, and dependencies organized and visible.
Notice when something is blocked, unclear, or falling behind and help get it resolved.
Make sure decisions turn into action and that important details don’t fall through the cracks.
Adapt as priorities, requirements, and timelines change.
Learn What Works: Help define what success looks like for launches and partner initiatives.
Gather performance data, partner feedback, and lessons from what we ship.
Help the team understand what worked, what didn’t, and what we should do differently next time.
Carry lessons from one partnership or launch into the next.
Help identify opportunities to grow successful partnerships.
Help Build the Machine: Notice recurring problems, inefficiencies, and places where ownership is unclear.
Help create simple playbooks, workflows, templates, and tools that make execution easier.
Improve how Wolf keeps track of commitments, decisions, and next steps.
Make the team more organized and effective without adding unnecessary processes.
Take on increasingly ambiguous and important projects as you learn the business and earn trust.