Craft:

Games Design & Production

Job Description:

We are seeking a talented and creative Senior Product Manager to lead our efforts in improving the communication & navigation systems in Candy Crush Saga. You will be at the forefront of creating a seamless, consistent, and engaging gaming experience for millions of players worldwide. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of Candy Crush by tackling some of our biggest challenges around communication coherence, player engagement, and tooling.

Your role within the Kingdom

As a Senior Product Manager focused on Communication & Navigation Systems, you will work with cross-functional teams to transform our player experience. You will lead the development of new approaches to player communication and in-game navigation, focusing on reducing disruptions, enhancing relevancy, and streamlining our technical stack to support a cohesive Candy experience. This is a dynamic role involving significant stakeholder engagement and strategic alignment to build a unified, high-quality player experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the Strategy and Roadmap: Develop and own the strategy for improving player communication systems, information surfacing, and ultimately the overall player experience.

• Player-Centric Product Design: Collaborate with Game Designers, UX Designers, and Analysts to design player experiences that are immersive and tailored, focusing on reducing disruptions and providing meaningful content.

• Data-Driven Insights: Use analytics to evaluate current performance, identify areas for improvement, and propose changes that will lead to increased retention, reduced churn, and improved player satisfaction.

• Stakeholder Management: Coordinate with multiple teams across product areas to align on goals, ensuring cohesive ownership and governance over player experience changes.

• Improve Operability: Establish and drive initiatives that build better tooling and operability for content surfacing, ensuring that our tech stack is streamlined, interconnected, and capable of delivering meaningful experiences at scale.

• Player Communication Governance: Implement standardized guidelines and design principles to ensure consistent, relevant, and visually cohesive messaging throughout the player journey.

Skills to create thrills

• Product Leadership Experience: You have a background in product management, ideally in a fast-paced consumer-focused industry. Experience and strong interest in design of UI systems and UX flows is a strong plus.

• Analytical Mindset: Highly skilled in quantitative analysis, comfortable using big data to derive actionable insights. You can confidently make data-driven decisions that contribute to improving player experience and product quality.

• Tech-Savvy: Strong understanding of technical infrastructure, tooling, and tech stack interoperability. You know how to work effectively with engineers to bring complex features to life.

• Player First Approach: Passionate about understanding player needs and advocating for solutions that enhance their experience.

• Collaborative Communicator: Proven ability to work with diverse stakeholders, aligning efforts across teams, managing dependencies, and building consensus in a large organization.

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.