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Games Design & Production

Job Description:

🎮Senior Product Manager - New Game Development (New Games Team)

👑 Your role with our Kingdom:

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our New Games division, where innovation meets opportunity. You will play a pivotal role in building a brand-new game from scratch, collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape the player experience, test early hypotheses, and launch a bold new product that could become the next big hit in our portfolio.

This role is a unique opportunity to own the product strategy, define vision and roadmap, and deliver impact from the earliest development phases through market launch.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

• Partnering with Executive Producer, Creative Direction and Business Direction, Define and execute the product strategy from concept through production and launch, aligned with the game vision and audience needs
   
• Lead the product discovery process, shaping hypotheses based on player problems, market trends, and competitor insights.
   
• Build and manage a clear roadmap, balancing short-term learning goals with long-term strategic impact.
   
• Work closely with design, engineering, and production to shape features and experiences that are both innovative and feasible.
   
• Partner with Data Science and Business Performance to:
   
  • Set up and analyze A/B tests
     
  • Interpret KPIs for early signals on retention, engagement, and monetization
     
  • Make data-informed decisions to iterate rapidly
     
• Drive the go-to-market approach in collaboration with marketing, UA, and finance teams.
   
• Ensure clear, inspiring communication across all stakeholders—from team members to leadership—building alignment and momentum.
   
• Champion the voice of the player, advocating for delightful, sticky gameplay.
   
• Establish and evolve operational processes to guide scalable, high-quality development.

🚀 Skills to Create Thrills

• Proven experience as a Senior Product Manager or Product Manager on at least one shipped mobile free-to-play game.
   
• Strong understanding of early-stage game development, with hands-on experience taking a product from concept to launch.
   
• Demonstrated ability to translate insights into action, using both quantitative and qualitative data to guide strategy.
   
• Experience with LiveOps, A/B testing, and KPI interpretation is a plus.
   
• Fluent in game economy design, monetization models, and balancing mechanics to optimize LTV and retention.
   
• Effective cross-functional collaborator with strong skills in stakeholder management, influencing without authority, and narrative storytelling.
   
• High attention to detail, with a relentless drive for executional excellence.
   
• An entrepreneurial mindset and passion for innovation, experimentation, and finding the next hit product.

🧭 What You Bring

• Experience defining product strategies and roadmaps, particularly in early-stage environments.
   
• Strong grasp of product development frameworks, with the ability to choose and adapt methodologies to different contexts.
   
• Mastery in data-driven decision making; fluency in success metrics, benchmarking, and experimentation frameworks.
   
• Exceptional communication and alignment skills, tailored to a range of audiences—from engineers to executives.
   
• Strategic vision paired with the ability to zoom into execution details and unblock teams.

🌟 Why Join Us?

You’ll be part of a passionate, high-performing, and fun team where creativity and autonomy are celebrated. We’re building something new—with the backing of a world-class games company—and we want you to be part of this adventure from day one

 

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.