Senior Product Manager, Core Gameplay | Candy Crush Saga

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Job Description:

We are looking for a talented and creative Senior Product Manager interested in pushing our understanding and performance of Core Gameplay of Candy Crush Saga. You will get the opportunity to become a part of the Thrilling Gameplay team, where we live and breathe innovation and creativity. You will be working on core mechanics and elements, with the goal of creating the most compelling player experience, for one of the most iconic games ever. 

Your role within the Kingdom

As a Senior Product Manager in the Core Gameplay area of Candy Crush, you will be working with varied stakeholders in a fun, dynamic and fast-paced environment. You’ll help us to develop new and optimise existing features to delight our players and grow our business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Define strategy and roadmap for your area of responsibility within Thrilling Gameplay

• Drive effective and efficient Product Discovery and work together with other Product Managers, Analysts, Game Designers, and UX Designers to create engaging player experiences  

• Set and deliver on team OKRs for your product area and team

• Use analytics and quantitative analysis to monitor game performance, recommend A/B- test optimizations and provide input for features to increase user retention, engagement, and monetization  

• Build a great team environment, coordinating and aligning your cross-functional team(s) as well as stakeholders towards our goals, collaborating effectively with product teams in other areas. 

• Provide stakeholders with regular updates on the performance of your features

Skills to create thrills

You are a passionate problem solver and have the ability to draw data driven business insights that will add real value to King. You are proactive and demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and work in a fast paced and collaborative environment whilst communicating effectively with teams and individuals across King.

Experience and capabilities that would suit this role:

• You have experience in a product leadership or product management role at a tech/games company, or in a similarly analytical role

• You are highly creative and comfortable at making design decisions with little to no data available

• You have a good understanding of data and statistics, with the ability to interpret these with confidence and drive through your recommendations and a willingness to learn more

• You have experience working with creative crafts, such as design and art, as well engineers, aligning everyone towards the same goal

• You have strong communication skills and are able to communicate succinctly in all mediums, for different audiences

• You are a strong leader and are passionate about bringing team members and stakeholders alike behind your vision leading to the best possible product

• You are able and willing to coach more junior team members to help them grow and stretch within their roles

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.