Director of Product – RPG

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in France, +4 more countries.

📋 Description

• Establish the product roadmap for one or multiple active RPG titles, focusing on the core gameplay loop, progression pacing, monetization strategies, and meta systems.

• Ensure the vitality of the in-game economy.

• Manage LiveOps comprehensively, which includes the schedule, events, and player-retention strategies.

• Lead a small team comprised of product, design, and economy specialists.

• Provide the team with a clear vision, enhance their skills, and optimize performance.

• Supervise the monetization strategy and balance the growth of in-app purchases and ad revenue.

• Stimulate acquisition growth in collaboration with the User Acquisition (UA) team.

• Utilize player data, creative insights, and campaign results to inform the product roadmap.

• Work in conjunction with Publishing and studios through shared key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Comprehend and facilitate game development and release processes from inception to launch.

• Implement genre benchmarks and established best practices in significant product decisions.

• Stay actively engaged with data and game systems as required.

• Take ownership of the product, economy, and LiveOps for a pivotal RPG title, with the potential to oversee product management across the wider RPG portfolio.

⛳️ Requirements

• Multiple years of product experience in live mobile games, particularly RPGs.

• Product experience with live free-to-play (F2P) mobile games, ideally in the RPG/midcore genre, with full ownership of significant features, progression, monetization, or product roadmaps.

• Strong proficiency in RPG mechanics and meta systems, encompassing progression, power curves, collection, PvP/social elements, seasons, and passes.

• Excellent instincts for mobile marketability.

• Preferably, experience guiding a title from concept/pre-launch through to launch and LiveOps, or influencing product direction across various titles.

• Extensive LiveOps experience, with insights into how events, content, progression, and monetization foster engagement and repeat spending.

• Proven success in managing features from start to finish: identifying, developing, launching, measuring, and refining.

• Practical understanding of what a live team can realistically deliver and sustain.

• Strong leadership capabilities across cross-functional teams including Design, Publishing, Data, Economy, UA, Growth, and external studios.

• Ability to set a direction and guide others while remaining actively involved with the game, systems, and data.

• Capacity to excel in lean, dynamic, and highly autonomous teams.

• Collaboration mainly conducted in English.

• Primarily located within European time zones (UTC to UTC+3), or planning to be in those zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Depending on your location, benefits include insurance, meal vouchers, public transportation subsidies, gym memberships, and more.

• Desk access at the Paris HQ private WeWork office, featuring WeWork amenities such as rooftop views and coworking spaces.

• Access to WeWork locations throughout Europe and their professional office benefits.

• Opportunity to collaborate with a global team across 35+ countries.

• Occasional team gatherings and off-site retreats (Workations).

• Performance evaluations every six months with established development objectives.

• Equipment support, covering all necessities for work, as well as a home office setup allowance for remote employees.