Business Operations Manager (f/m/d)
- Hamburg
- Sunday
- Sunday
- Full time
Sunday creates pocket-sized friends for the mass market. We turn idle moments into meaningful connections for millions of users worldwide.
Sunday focuses on the psychology of care, companionship, and empathy. We build accessible worlds where players don’t just solve puzzles, they rescue friends. By combining mass-market accessibility with deep emotional hooks, we are defining the next era of digital entertainment.
The Position: What is a Business Operations at Sunday?
In this role, you will be the absolute engine of cross-divisional execution. You will collaborate daily with Product, Growth, Tech, Marketing, and Data teams to push critical business programs across the finish line. You will map milestones, clear operational bottlenecks, run rigorous status checks, and ensure our studio moves with high velocity without fracturing into silos. You are a true “Program Pilot”, someone who thrives under pressure, takes absolute ownership of project delivery, and ensures every cross-functional team has exactly what they need to win.
The entrepreneurial “get things done fast” is the most important criteria for Sunday. We are not looking for a traditional corporate administrator, building processes with long term effects or a high-level strategist who only builds slide decks. We are looking for an exceptionally hungry, agile operator to own end-to-end program and project management across our entire studio, who is focused on results.
This role is on fixed term – 1 year contract.
Core Responsibilities
Own the Program & Project Lifecycle: Take immediate charge of tracking active cross-divisional programs, ensuring milestones are achieved on time and operational friction or project leakage is completely neutralized.
Enforce Cross-Functional Accountability: Act as the central node for project alignment. Conduct constant sprint and status check-ins with Game teams, UA managers, Data Scientists, and Developers. You are explicitly expected to have the difficult conversations required to resolve bottlenecks and challenge missing results.
Optimize Operational Handoffs: Standardize communication and workflows at critical project handoff points by ensuring all teams adhere strictly to formalized entry and exit criteria.
Drive Execution with an 80/20 ROI Focus: Evaluate project velocities against core business metrics (LTV, CPI, Spend, IAP, and absolute profit margin). Help teams maintain absolute focus on high-impact wins and flag low-value features drifting from our core roadmap.
Synthesize Leadership & Board Reporting: Transform complex project backlogs, program roadmaps, and cross-department timelines into crisp, data-backed status and blocker reports for senior executives and the board.
Who You Are (Requirements)
Agile Operator Mindset: You possess a profound generalist mindset. You are eager to master how multiple parts of our mobile entertainment value chain link together, translating program strategy directly into rapid execution.
Execution Grit: You operate with a lean, solution-driven mindset. You don’t just manage by task lists; you manage by business outcomes. You own your time management and are accountable for delivery.
Transparent & Assertive Communicator: You practice direct, analytical, and respectful communication. You are completely unafraid to follow up cross-functionally for updates, expose alignment bottlenecks, or flag hidden project risks to leadership.
Project & Pipeline Specialist: You have exceptional logical tracking skills. You are highly proficient in using Jira, spreadsheets, and visual workflow tools to structure loose ideas into clean, scannable milestone roadmaps and program schedules.
Rapid Upskiller: You are an ambitious program professional looking to skip standard corporate ladders. You want to sit directly at the core of business operations, earning a masterclass in how a gaming studio scales by driving high-stakes commercial programs.
Fuel for the Adventure: What You Get at Sunday
Build Your Skills, Not Just Your CV: At Sunday, you grow by doing. Real ownership, fast feedback, and steep learning curves are the norm. We don’t just offer development programs – we offer real problems to solve and the space to own them.
Flexible Setup for Maximum Impact: We work in a hybrid setup with three core office days, plus flexibility where it matters.
Work Where It Feels Good: Our office has a 5th floor Alster lake view, strong coffee, top gear, and way too many snacks. But more than that – it’s a space designed for makers, thinkers, and game-changers to connect, collide, and build.
More Than Just a Job – Join the Crew: We don’t just work side by side. We share wins, tackle challenges, and have fun together. Team events, game nights, spontaneous pizza runs – they’re part of the ride. Work hard, play smart.
If you want to build the future of digital companionship, Sunday is your home. Apply now!
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Recruiting FAQs
We aim to make our recruiting process as fast and efficient as possible, but the duration can vary depending on the role you are applying for. Usually we are really fast, though (less than 4 weeks).
Yes, if you see multiple roles open that match your skill set, you can apply for them simultaneously. Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and contact you about the role that best seems to match your skills.
Yes, if you see multiple roles that match your skill set, you can apply for them simultaneously. Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and contact you about the role that best matches your skills.
Great! Please allow a few days for our team to review your application. We will contact you with the next steps as soon as possible.
We’ll never ask you for money, fees, or sensitive information (like bank details, tax forms, or credit card numbers) during the hiring process.
If anything feels off, you can always double-check by reaching out to our Talent Acquisition team at ta@applike-group.com.
Once you’ve signed your contract, our HR team may request personal details, but only from our official email: hr@applike-group.com.
No, we do provide full visa and relocation support.
We do! You can find more information about our relocation support and the succesful relocation of our colleagues here on this website.
No problem! Our visa and relocation support does also include your partner or kids. (Please be aware that legal marriage is often times a requirement to obtain a partner-visa).
If you prefer 100% remote companies, applike is not the right place for you because we strongly believe in face-to-face collaboration. However, we did implement a hybrid working model where we are in the office at least three days a week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday) and can work remotely the remaining two days. Additionally, you get three whole weeks per year to work fully remotely if you want.
Our hybrid working approach involves being in the office at least three days a week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday) and the option to work remotely the remaining two days. Flexible working hours mean that we work Monday-Friday, but do not have fixed working hours. Just make sure to adapt to the rhythm of your team.
The headquarters of the applike group and all its subsidiaries are located in Hamburg, Germany. We do have offices in the US and APAC.
Well next to the fact that you are able to see and collaborate with your colleagues face-to-face, we have a super modern office that leave no wishes open: from Drinks & Snack, areas to work away from your desk to a fully equiped gym.
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