Product Director, Lifecycle I Candy Crush Soda Saga

**Craft**:
Data, Analytics & Strategy

Candy Crush Soda Saga is looking for a Product Director for the newly formed Lifecycle area. Joining in the early stages in the formation of this area, you’ll get the opportunity to set the product direction and strategy, defining our processes and how we collaborate and work both within the area and together with other stakeholders.

As the team is under formation, you’ll be the first Product Director to join, and we expect you to drive and influence the product direction for how we keep players engaged throughout their player journey. Compared to a more traditional Product Director role, the scope for this role emphases on product direction and strategy, processes and organization, cross
- game and other stakeholder alignment rather than team development and growth. You will still influence the teams you’ll be working with, but you'll work as an individual contributor, due to the size of the area in this start
- up phase.

**Your role within the Kingdom**
- Lead the formulation, validation, and communication of the product vision and
strategy.
- Define and evaluate key results and performance metrics that inform the success of our products and features.
- Implement and drive the execution of the product strategy, ensuring timely delivery of roadmap features and improvements.
- Work closely with cross
- functional colleagues such as UX Design, Engineering, Data Science, UX Research and Marketing.
- Actively drive and lead some of the product opportunities directly yourself.
- Aligning with external teams and stakeholders towards our strategy and product objectives.
- Co
- create a great team environment, setting up processes and ways of working that serves the area and team needs.

**Skills to create thrills**
- Proven experience working as a Senior Product Manager/Owner or in similar roles in agile software development environments with short implementation cycles.
- Experience working in game development with cross
- functional teams and complex stakeholder landscape.
- Expertise in Agile Software Development best practices, Lean Product Management and Design Thinking.
- Ability to create great working relationships with different teams and stakeholders.
- Excellent communicationskills.
- Enjoy problem solving and can draw both data driven business insights and user research to drive value.
- Passion for building experiences and games that people love to play.

**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

Applications need to be in English.