About the role
Company Overview
Kwalee is a gaming powerhouse with a mobile empire boasting 1.5 billion+ downloads and a thriving PC & Console division with numerous global chart-topping releases across Steam, Consoles, and Amazon.
The Role
The Product & Growth team is seeking a Lead Product Manager to shape live games by determining what to change, why, and the resulting impact. The role involves close collaboration with Executive Producers to balance building and strategy.
Responsibilities
- Understand the games inside out: Identify key metrics, find opportunities in retention, engagement, economy, and monetisation, and size them.
- Start with a hypothesis: Translate opportunities into clear hypotheses with success metrics.
- Run experiments that decide: Design A/B tests with product analysts, interpret results, and collaborate with producers on ship decisions.
- Shape the roadmap: Build and prioritise the game roadmap based on value creation.
- Connect growth and product: Integrate UA and creative insights into the games and collaborate on monetisation and player experience.
- Grow the product craft: Guide product analysts and establish product standards across the portfolio.
- Spot tomorrow’s hits: Provide a product perspective on new games during their growth phase.
Ownership
- Responsible for product decisions and the resulting increase in player value.
- Ensuring every significant player opportunity is supported by a smart hypothesis, clear experiment, and roadmap placement.
Success Metrics
- Growth in LTV and profit from product changes.
- Performance in retention, engagement, and monetisation.
- Execution and analysis of experiments.
- Quality and reasoning behind roadmap decisions.
Qualifications
Essential
- Senior product management experience in F2P mobile games with measurably improved live titles.
- Strong analytical skills: expertise with cohorts, funnels, and experiment design.
- Deep understanding of game economies, progression, LiveOps, and hybrid monetisation.
- Hypothesis-driven mindset: ability to define expectations and contingency plans.
- Experience partnering closely with producers or game leads.
- Clear, warm communication skills.
Desirable
- SQL experience.
- Experience guiding or mentoring analysts.
- Puzzle or hybrid-casual mobile game experience.
Working Conditions
- Location: Onsite 5 days per week at the Leamington Spa studio.
- Schedule: Full-time, utilizing core hours for flexibility.
- Office Environment: Dog-friendly, free parking, electric charging stations, and onsite gym.
Benefits and Perks
- Holiday: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with an extra day earned for each year of service (capped at 5 years).
- Health: Private medical insurance, dental insurance, life assurance, and optical care.
- Financial: Solid pension plan.
- Wellbeing: Access to on-site gym and a supportive, wellness-focused atmosphere.
- Food & Drink: Unlimited free snacks and drinks.
- Gaming & Merch: Steam codes for all game releases, exclusive company merchandise, and seasonal events.
- Development: Full access to LinkedIn Learning for continuous professional development.
Diversity & Inclusion
Kwalee is an equal opportunity employer committed to a safe, welcoming, and supportive environment. The company prioritizes diversity across age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. AI tools may be used to support the hiring process, but final hiring decisions are made by humans.