Busy roadmap, unclear priorities
Teams work hard, but priorities keep shifting and nobody is fully confident what matters most right now.
PoweredByPixels
Practical help for teams building games, products, and ideas.
I help game and product teams untangle priorities, align people, and bring structure to complex operations. From LiveOps and publishing to forecasting and team coordination, I focus on helping teams make better decisions and execute with confidence.
What can I help you with?
20+
Years across product, publishing, live operations, and leadership
60%
Service efficiency improvement through better planning and visibility
92%
Forecast reliability after restructuring planning and reporting processes
When complexity starts slowing teams down
Most problems are not isolated problems.
The real challenge is usually the gap between product ambition, team capacity, commercial pressure, and day-to-day execution.
Teams solving different problems
Product, marketing, analytics, operations, and leadership are often optimizing for different outcomes without realizing it.
Forecasting without visibility
Revenue, roadmap, staffing, and delivery discussions happen too late or without a shared understanding of risks and dependencies.
Too much coordination overhead
Teams spend more time aligning around work than moving work forward.
How I help
Senior support across product, operations, and growth.
A focused way to create clearer priorities, better alignment, and stronger operational rhythm for game and product teams.
01
Product Leadership
Roadmap focus, KPI-driven decision making, product ownership, LiveOps support, player-first thinking, and mentoring for product leaders.
- Clarify what matters now, what can wait, and what needs ownership.
- Connect roadmap, KPIs, player value, and business outcomes.
- Support product leads with senior operating judgment.
02
Team & Operational Alignment
Planning structures, forecasting, ownership clarity, workflow improvements, OKRs, cross-functional coordination, and operational visibility.
- Make risks, dependencies, and decision points visible.
- Reduce alignment overhead without adding heavy process.
- Help teams turn planning into owned execution.
03
Commercial & Live Service Growth
Monetization, publishing operations, licensing, partner alignment, portfolio performance, and long-term product growth support.
- Connect product decisions with commercial reality.
- Improve forecasting, portfolio visibility, and partner alignment.
- Support LiveOps and publishing teams during growth or transition.
Main offer
Product & Operations Review
A focused engagement for game and product teams that need clearer priorities, better alignment, and stronger operational rhythm.
Outcome
Clear priorities and a practical operating plan
The goal is to identify where execution breaks down, what should change first, and how leadership can create better structure, visibility, and momentum.
Review
I look at how product, LiveOps, publishing, marketing, analytics, and leadership currently work together, including goals, workflows, planning, and communication.
Prioritize
We identify what actually matters now, what can wait, and where teams are losing time, focus, or alignment.
Align
The result is a practical operating plan leadership can use for planning, communication, prioritization, and execution.
Selected experience
20 years of live products, teams, and operational leadership.
Experience across product management, publishing, LiveOps, operations, and leadership roles in online games.
MY.GAMES
Publishing, product, and service leadership
Led product, publishing services, licensing, forecasting, and operational structures across multiple live products and publishing teams.
Gameforge / AION
AION free-to-play transition
Helped transition AION from subscription to free-to-play in Europe while aligning product, monetization, and live operations.
Perfect World Europe
Operational restructuring and forecasting
Introduced KPI reporting, forecasting processes, project tracking, and operational planning structures for live service teams.
Codemasters
Console production experience
Worked in console production environments and learned first-hand how planning, production, and delivery pressure interact.
NCsoft / Guild Wars
Player-facing operations leadership
Built and led multilingual support operations while working closely with live player communities and service quality.
GOA / Dark Age of Camelot
Community and live service foundations
Started close to players and community operations before moving into product and business leadership roles.
Measurable outcomes
Concrete signals from operating work.
EUR 250K to EUR 1.2M
monthly revenue growth on a flagship live product
3x
increase in titles passing licensing pipeline after restructuring intake processes
7+
service disciplines coordinated across publishing operations
VB
I am PoweredByPixels
Volker Boenigk
I have spent the last 20 years working across community management, support, production, product management, LiveOps, monetization, publishing services, forecasting, licensing, and operational leadership.
What ties all of that together is a consistent focus on bringing structure to complex environments, helping teams work better together, and turning difficult operational situations into clearer decisions and healthier execution.
I am not a traditional consultant. I am a hands-on operator who has spent most of his career inside live products, cross-functional teams, and high-pressure publishing environments.
Start with a conversation
Need help bringing structure to a product, team, or operational challenge?
Book a short intro call or send me an email. We can discuss where things are getting stuck and whether I can help.