Product Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Cyprus.

📋 Description

• Lead and enhance the Hybrid Casual product strategy.

• Take ownership of existing live products while also creating, validating, and launching new product initiatives.

• Contribute to the overarching product strategy and long-term growth as a member of the Belka Games leadership team.

• Manage product strategy and business performance for the Hybrid Casual portfolio, focusing on revenue, profitability, long-term value, and investment efficiency.

• Enhance retention, engagement, monetization, product quality, and other essential product and business metrics.

• Balance immediate performance goals with long-term product investments while efficiently allocating portfolio resources.

• Define product and LiveOps priorities based on data, business impact, investment efficiency, and growth potential.

• Make decisions regarding the launch, scaling, transformation, or discontinuation of product initiatives.

• Ensure consistent product updates and expand successful features, mechanics, and practices across live products.

• Align Product, Development, Analytics, Marketing, and other business sectors around common objectives.

• Collaborate with Belka Games leadership on product strategy and long-term development initiatives.

• Recruit and nurture senior product leaders to build autonomous, scalable teams.

• Define and execute the R&D strategy for the Hybrid Casual direction.

• Identify opportunities, segments, and mechanics while managing hypotheses, experiments, prototypes, and initiatives.

• Guide new product concepts from ideation and prototyping through validation, soft launch, global launch, and scaling.

• Establish success criteria, assess initiatives, develop investment business cases, and set validation stages and investment gates.

• Systematize insights from experiments and launches and scale effective practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant product leadership experience in the gaming industry as a Product Director, Head of Product, Executive Producer, or a similar role.

• Extensive experience with live mobile F2P games, preferably within the Hybrid Casual or related Casual genres.

• Demonstrated success in defining and implementing product strategy.

• Proven experience managing a portfolio of live products and new product initiatives throughout the complete product lifecycle.

• Experience in overseeing business performance and allocating investments and resources within a product portfolio.

• Deep knowledge of F2P monetization, LiveOps, product economies, progression systems, and the dynamics of the mobile gaming market.

• Proven track record of enhancing retention, engagement, monetization, revenue, profitability, and long-term product health.

• Strong analytical and business acumen, including experience in building business cases and making data-informed product and investment decisions.

• Experience in building independent cross-functional teams and hiring and developing senior Product Managers, Game Producers, or other product leaders.

• Exceptional leadership, communication, cross-functional management, and stakeholder alignment abilities.

• Capacity to make clear decisions in uncertain circumstances and take responsibility for business outcomes.

• Proficient in English and Russian.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• 20 business days of paid vacation.

• Opportunities for professional development within the company’s learning budget.

• Compensation for private medical insurance.

• Partial reimbursement for gym memberships.

• A collaborative and data-driven culture.