Director of Product Management

We are proud to belong to the TOP 1% of all employers in Germany 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024!Our StoryAt Wooga, we are very proud of the diverse, creative and friendly environment we have established and we believe you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry. Each of our Woogas plays an important role in our success as a company and in shaping our culture. We really value our razor-sharp focus on story-driven casual games, excellent craftsmanship, truly collaborative way of working, and the values we strive to live up to every day. We create joyful experiences that awaken our players’ desire to see what happens next. Based in the heart of Berlin, with over 300 employees from around the world, we work together to create high-quality casual games with engaging stories at the core of the experience.About the roleWe are looking for a Director of Product Management, who will lead the product management discipline within our hit game, June’s Journey, to ensure the long-term vision and strategy are tangible through our new and existing product features. The Director of Product Management will make crucial product decisions and lead Product Managers to drive product roadmaps of our market-leading game and report directly to the Game Director. Some of your responsibilities in this position include:Driving Wooga’s successYou will be a driving force in our ambition to continuously improve June’s Journey as a sustainably profitable business delivering value to our players.You will decide on and champion the next iteration of product improvements that will allow June’s Journey to flourish for the next decade.Work on strategic initiatives, together with the rest of the Games leadership team, and push our progress toward our vision of becoming an entertainment platform.Leading the Product Management DisciplineYou will be the decision maker and point person for everything product-related within the game.Be accountable for the prioritized backlog and product roadmap across all parts of the game to allow stakeholder alignment.Connect the plans we are executing and actions we are taking to the overall company goals by being an active contributor to the forecasting process.Help conduct Player and Market research in order to understand and represent the voice of our current players as well as our soon-to-be players.Foster a culture of A/B testing, feature validation, and data-driven decision-making.Ensure that Product learnings and insights are shared and applied across the organization.Collaborate with the leadership of the game to ensure that we work collaboratively across disciplines and create a game that delights our players and grows the business.Act as an ambassador of the Product Management discipline, inside and outside of Wooga.Leading the PeopleAdopt a coaching style and be able to grow the Product Managers ensuring they become industry-leading product managers who are independent, accountable, collaborative, and proactive.Your goal is to create an environment where the entire team can do the best work of their careers. You need to be able to regularly reflect on the role you play and what improvements you can make to make the environment better.Be an extremely resilient leader with exceptional situational leadership skills.About youExcellent leadership and coaching skills with the willingness to teach and the ability to transform qualitative and quantitative feedback into actionable tasks.Must have previous experience of running large scale games as a service, with an emphasis on events and live operations.A strong understanding of past and current mobile F2P monetisation mechanics, the overall casual market, and ideas about where the industry is headed.Must have excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills to work across other disciplines and departments within the game and company, and ultimately deliver further success for the game.Please note: Research has shown that some under-represented groups in the gaming industry (e.g., women) tend to apply only if they meet every single requirement. Here at Wooga, the desire to learn and the willingness to solve problems are more important to us than your experience on paper. We encourage you to apply even if you do not think that you tick all the boxes - thinking outside of such boxes and embracing the diversity of mindsets and backgrounds is what we believe makes our teams thrive.Our PromiseShape the future! Challenge the status quo and team up with a diverse group of experts (over 57 nationalities!) working on crafting the world’s best games.We offer a generous relocation package and home search support if you are not already located in Berlin. Did we mention that we also cooperate with Kindergartens?Make use of a significant education budget and extra days off for self-development. Join our meet-ups, talks, brown bag lunches, internal trainings, workshops and many others.Enjoy the yoga, mindfulness app, sports and transport subsidies. And a Purpose Day to donate your time to a worthy cause!Did you know that German is the third most commonly taught language worldwide? Learn it too! We offer German language classes for you and your significant other.With our hybrid work model you will work in the office with your teams twice a week, to encourage in-person collaboration and team bonding. The other three days you can choose if you want to work from home or from the office. We also offer 10 days a year to work from abroad. We got your back!At Wooga we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for everyone who works here or with us, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof) and game preferences. Be yourself, we like you that way!By clicking “Submit Application” you acknowledge that you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy #J-18808-Ljbffr