Licensing & Partnership Activation Lead - Video Games - Fixed term
keywords-intl1
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Vancouver · Canada
Posted Aug 6, 2026
- Full-time
- Remote
- Marketing
- Mid-Senior level
keywords-intl1
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Vancouver · Canada
Posted Aug 6, 2026
Since 1998, we've been on a mission to reshape how players interact with their favorite games, growing into a global team of over 12,000 professionals spread across 70+ studios in 26 countries.
We are always there to lend a hand to video games developers and publishers by offering four service lines: from Create, to Globalize, Media & Entertainment and finally - Engage - which is one of the fastest-growing Service Lines at Keywords Studios. Engage provides technical support, community management, and trust & safety services for a wide range of AAA and Indie studios in the gaming industry.
Currently we are looking for the Licensing & Partnership Operations Lead, responsible for the operational delivery of licensing and partnership initiatives for a global gaming client. Acting as the internal delivery lead, this role translates client requests into actionable workstreams, coordinates cross functional resources, delegates tasks, monitors execution, and ensures deliverables are completed on time and to quality standards. This position partners closely with internal production, community, social, and marketing teams to drive efficient execution while proactively managing priorities, risks, dependencies, and resource allocation. The role focuses on operational excellence and delivery oversight rather than external stakeholder or partner management.
The contract is expected to last 9-10 months, with potential for renewal. The salary for this role is up to 68,000 CAD p.a. (pro-rated).
Key Responsibilities:
People Leadership
● Lead and coach a team of licensing and partnership specialists
● Conduct regular 1:1 meetings, performance reviews, and scorecard evaluations
● Monitor individual and team performance, addressing performance concerns and
recognizing achievements
● Support onboarding, training, and resource planning.
Delivery & Operations
● Own the operational delivery of licensing and partnership initiatives from intake
through completion.
● Review incoming work requests and translate them into actionable tasks.
● Delegate work across the team based on priorities, skill sets, and capacity.
● Monitor project execution to ensure deliverables are completed on time and meet
quality standards.
Requirements
● Demonstrated experience managing licensing and/or partnership programs, including coordinating cross functional initiatives, campaign execution, and partner deliverables.
● Previous experience in a people leadership or management role with responsibility for coaching, performance management, workload planning, and team development.
● Proven ability to lead teams in a fully remote work environment.
● Experience assigning, prioritizing, and managing work across multiple concurrent projects.
● Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
● Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Teams, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
● Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify risks, remove blockers, and drive projects through completion
Preferred Qualifications
● Experience in the video game or entertainment industry.
● Experience working within a managed services, agency, or outsourced delivery environment.
● Experience developing operational processes, documentation, and workflow improvements.
COMPANY PROFILEKeywords is a growth company, trusted and relied upon by the world’s leading video game and entertainment companies to work alongside them during the full game development cycle to bring immersive content to life for the joy of billions of people across the world.We are a critical enabler of a large, dynamic industry, and are building out our proprietary technology platform to augment our future growth.WHY WORK AT KEYWORDS STUDIOS?People who work at Keywords are passionate, talented, committed and resourceful. As a business we thrive on diversity, celebrate uniqueness and work as teams whether we are physically together in one of our 70 global studios or working together virtually.We empower people to perform to the best of their ability with our “can do” attitude. We appreciate and embrace flexibility. We learn at every opportunity to grow ourselves through experience, training and tackling new challenges.This is what makes us Keywordians.https://www.keywordsstudios.com/
COMPANY PROFILE
Keywords is a growth company, trusted and relied upon by the world’s leading video game and entertainment companies to work alongside them during the full game development cycle to bring immersive content to life for the joy of billions of people across the world.
We are a critical enabler of a large, dynamic industry, and are building out our proprietary technology platform to augment our future growth.
People who work at Keywords are passionate, talented, committed and resourceful. As a business we thrive on diversity, celebrate uniqueness and work as teams whether we are physically together in one of our 70 global studios or working together virtually.
We empower people to perform to the best of their ability with our “can do” attitude. We appreciate and embrace flexibility. We learn at every opportunity to grow ourselves through experience, training and tackling new challenges.
This is what makes us Keywordians.