Craft: Technology & Development
Over 3 billion unique devices have our Game Engine installed. Our engine powers up King's biggest franchises like Candy Crush, Bubble Witch, Farm Hero, and Pet Rescue. The Fiction Factory technology is made up of a highly optimized game engine run-time capable of high-quality 2D and 3D mobile gaming across a huge range of mobile devices, a content editing tool, and a content and build pipeline to enable efficient iteration to game teams. Because King releases new game builds every two weeks, it makes the Fiction Factory team's focus clear: deliver better iteration time for content creators. Provide a stable, powerful, and up-to-date platform.
Make sure our games continue to reach the billions of devices of our players, regardless of how powerful those devices are. We are looking for a talented and experienced Product Manager who will help us deliver a reliable and intuitive environment to our game teams and avoid fragmented and inconsistent experiences. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to work with our major games and one of the largest game user bases in the world. To deliver better outcomes across the company, we're building a product team responsible for end-to-end user experience. This team will build new and improve existing tools, technology, and experiences to use across our family of games. King Product Managers work with cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, and data scientists to build products. We are looking for a Product Manager that values collaboration and moves quickly.
As a Product Manager in the engine team, you'll be responsible for understanding user problems and needs based on data and collaboration with our UX and Engineering teams, collaborating on defining our product strategy and building strong partnerships with our internal stakeholders and customers. While this team will serve many teams at King around the world, it'll be based in Barcelona or Stockholm.
ResponsibilitiesOwn the Product backlog for the RunTime and Build/Platform areas.In collaboration with Game Studios, Engineering, Product Design, Product Specialists, and Data identify important opportunities, and drive product vision, strategies, and roadmaps in the context of broader organizational strategies and goals.Incorporate data, research, and market analysis to inform product strategies and roadmaps.Lead product discovery and development activities in partnership with Engineering and UX.Support and motivate a team of engineers and other cross-functional representatives, and maintain team health.Contribute to the overall product organization development.Skills to create thrills6+ years of experience in product management.Experience working in the game industry is good to have but not essential.People management experience.Strong leadership, organizational and execution skills.End-to-end experience within a large-scale environment.Outcome and continuous discovery mindset.Good understanding of UX methodologies.Experience of going through a full product lifecycle in autonomy, integrating customer feedback into product requirements, driving prioritization and pre/post-launch execution.Due to the technical nature of the products, a technical background is preferable but not essential. Experience managing a product targeted at game developers is a plus.Experience driving projects with cross-functional colleagues.Deep experience thriving in a highly cross-organization, cross-functional environment. Creating buy-in, strong collaboration, and relationship building.Extreme clarity in communication: able to articulate both the vision and the details of product performance to external and internal stakeholders in both written and verbal form.Experience working with cross-located and remote teams.About KingKing is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King's games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of HeroesMaking games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
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