VP, Games and Growth
The reason somebody opens Cubbie on a day they are not buying anything.
Most people buy software a handful of times a year. Cubbie needs a reason to be opened on all the other days, and games are that reason.
Think of what LinkedIn did with its daily puzzles. Small, sharp, finished in a few minutes, and worth coming back for tomorrow. Yours are built out of what Cubbie knows: software, what it costs, who runs what, and how good anybody really is at guessing any of it.
You own the whole loop. The idea, the design, the difficulty, the streak, the thing worth sharing, and what all of it does for the rest of the platform. A game everyone plays once and never returns to is a hobby, which is why growth is in the title: you are judged on the people who come back, and on what they do once they are here.
You will work with engineering to ship it and with the catalog for the material. The judgement about what is actually fun is yours alone, and it is the part that cannot be delegated.
The tour
This role runs as a two-year tour. That is the term on both sides. Near the end of it we sit down together and decide whether to run another one.
You will know in your first week what the tour is for: what you own, what has to be true by the end of it, and how that is measured.
By day ninety
One game live, played by people who do not work here, with return visits measured honestly from the first day.
A second and third idea tested far enough to be judged, and the ones that do not hold anybody's attention dropped rather than nursed.
A clear read on who plays, what they do next on Cubbie, and how many of them are still playing a week later.
And a shipping rhythm for the next ones that does not depend on you being in the room.
Build your package
This role is $125,000 a year, and you decide how much of it arrives as salary, as a bonus, or as ownership. Pick a starting shape, then move the sliders until it looks like the offer you want. What you build here goes to us with your application. Nothing here is an offer.
Starting shape
0.313% of Cubbie, vesting over two years
The package
Base salary$62,500
Performance bonusNone
Equity, granted once$62,500
Package, per year$125,000
Your stake
Share of Cubbie0.313%
Worth today$62,500
At $100,000,000$312,500
At $250,000,000$781,250
The trade
Pay given up, over two years$125,000
Worth it above$40,000,000
You give up $125,000 of pay over two years for a stake worth $62,500 today. It pays off if Cubbie is worth more than $40,000,000, against $20,000,000 now.
Apply
One page. Five questions, a short block on how you work, and a link to something you built or grew. There is no resume to attach and nothing to upload.