Product Manager – Mobile Games

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the product vision, priorities, and measurable outcomes for a designated mobile game or significant product area.

• Integrate player insights, game design, and commercial objectives, transforming decisions into releases, experiments, and enhancements.

• Identify target players, product challenges, and priorities through market research, competitor analysis, player feedback, and behavioral data.

• Develop business cases and sustain an outcome-focused roadmap.

• Organize discovery sessions, prototypes, and playtests to validate crucial assumptions.

• Enhance the core gameplay loop, onboarding process, difficulty level, progression, and session experience.

• Assess economy sources and sinks, reward pacing, ad placements, and purchase propositions.

• Balance revenue potentials with retention, progression, and player satisfaction.

• Define product metrics, tracking necessities, and data quality checks; analyze cohorts and funnels.

• Establish hypotheses, measures, guardrails, and decision criteria for experiments; determine whether to launch, iterate, or halt.

• Convert product decisions into requirements that encompass player flows, game rules, edge cases, tracking needs, and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate milestones, estimates, capacity, and dependencies across Design, Art, Development, and QA teams.

• Address ambiguity and delivery risks; negotiate scope, timing, and quality trade-offs.

• Review technical limitations and product risks; establish release readiness and quality benchmarks.

• Oversee rollout checks and monitoring, and assist with live incident recovery priorities.

• Set live operations priorities encompassing features, content, events, and technical stability.

• Analyze event and content outcomes by player segment and suggest modifications.

• Ensure product readiness aligns with acquisition strategies, store positioning, localization, and launch plans.

• Review acquisition cohort quality and manage partner commitments as assigned.

• Translate business objectives into measurable product outcomes while evaluating retention, monetization, and cohort economics.

• Investigate significant deviations, propose corrective actions or investments, manage allocated budgets, and report decisions and risks to leadership.

• Utilize approved AI tools for research, requirements gathering, localization checks, and analytical support; verify outputs and safeguard confidential information.

• Assess AI benefits, establish review checkpoints, and mentor junior colleagues.

• Foster cross-functional alignment and convert research, experiments, and retrospectives into practical insights.

• Provide a clear product direction, prioritized roadmap, actionable discoveries and experiment findings, feature specifications, realistic delivery timelines, measurable progress, coordinated releases, and dependable AI-assisted workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–7 years of pertinent experience in product management or related game roles, with proven ownership of mobile game features, systems, or a product area from delivery to evaluation.

• A relevant educational background in product management, game design, business, technology, or a related field, acquired through formal education or equivalent practical experience.

• Hands-on experience leveraging player and commercial data to inform product decisions.

• Experience managing at least one globally launched mobile game with 1 million or more cumulative installs is preferred; experience with 5 million or more installs is a significant advantage.

• Familiarity with mobile free-to-play models, player segmentation, core loops, onboarding, progression, and difficulty.

• Understanding of game economies, advertising strategies, and purchase models.

• Knowledge of product metrics and cohort economics, including retention, conversion, revenue per active user, lifetime value, and acquisition costs.

• Understanding of product discovery, experimentation, game production workflows, requirements, and release quality standards.

• Sufficient understanding of technical constraints to collaborate effectively with specialists.

• Knowledge of AI capabilities and limitations, including output verification and responsible management of confidential data and generated content.

• Ability to prioritize roadmaps, develop business cases, and transform ambiguous challenges into clear product requirements and actionable plans.

• Proficiency in analyzing funnels and cohorts, formulating hypotheses, and interpreting experiments with appropriate analytical support.

• Confidence in utilizing relevant analytics and collaboration tools.

• Capacity to articulate product recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to negotiate trade-offs and align commitments across functions or with partners.

• Skills to coordinate resources, dependencies, and risks while providing constructive feedback and coaching to junior team members.

• Capability to exercise independent product judgment, make proportional decisions with incomplete information, and escalate significant risks promptly.

• Ability to balance player experience, commercial ambitions, and development constraints.

• Willingness to take ownership through post-release evaluations and adjust priorities as results or constraints evolve.

• Professional proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and English, both spoken and written.

• Capability to respond to changes in Google Play and App Store policies and technical requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional growth and advancement.

• Flexible work environment and arrangements.

• Collaborative and inclusive company culture.