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Join our New Games Studio to support the development of an exciting unannounced midcore title. We can't wait to meet you !

Your Role Within our Kingdom

As a Product Manager in New Games, you will play a crucial role in crafting and improving the player experience for our new titles with an initial focus on an unannounced mid-core title. You will apply your expertise in product management and passion for gaming to drive the success of our new games.

Specifically, you’ll:

  • Define the strategy, roadmap and plans for your areas of responsibility, aligning it with the overall game experience and business goals and proactively identify new opportunities

  • Drive product, testing, and optimization roadmaps together with collaborators

  • Write and collaborate efficiently on product, feature and test specifications

  • Present key findings to game team and studio leadership in an effective and concise way

  • Partner closely with others crafts (game design, developers, artists etc) and collaborate with internal partners such as legal, marketing, finance etc

  • Leverage data, analytics, research and player insight studies to understand the game, providing analysis and recommendations to drive improvement

  • Provide stakeholders with regular or ad-hoc updates

  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and player preferences to inform the product

  • Share standard methodology across the team and wider organization

Skills to Create Thrills

You are a passionate problem solver and have the ability to draw data-driven business insights. You are proactive and demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment whilst communicating efficiently with teams and individuals across new games.

  • Love for mobile products and motivated by settling how to use data to make them better

  • Highly analytical, with outstanding experience in data-driven decision making

  • Strong interest in gaming and understanding of the mechanics of free-to-play games

  • Talent for building relationships, influencing and communicating

  • Ability to present analysis and research in an impactful way

  • Experience in delivering and improving business models which enhance revenue

  • Ability to work in self-directed, fast-paced and results-orientated entrepreneurial environments

  • Curious, empathic and a good teammate

About King

King 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 Heroes

Making 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.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid-core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!