About the role
Company Description
Ludia is an innovative and dynamic studio specializing in mobile game development. Based in Montreal since 2007, over 3.5 million players around the world dive into our universes every month. Our portfolio combines iconic global franchises and original creations, including Jurassic World Alive, Jurassic World: The Game, Dragons: Rise of Berk, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Legends, and many more.
With more than 500 million downloads since our founding, we are entering an exciting new chapter as an independent studio - one where growth is fueled by the passion of our team and our players.
Job Description
Are you ready to create the next big thing in mobile gaming? We are looking for a talented Senior Product Manager to join our team and help us innovate, develop, and refine features that will take our games to the next level! As a Senior Product Manager, you will wear two hats: orchestrating an exciting LiveOps calendar to boost engagement and monetization, and driving the development of new features to enhance our game's long-term success. You will be the connective tissue between data, design, engineering, and strategy, ensuring our game evolves to meet player needs and business goals.
Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Identity
- Champion the Product Identity & Strategy, in sync with Product Leadership and Marketing.
- Collaborate to define the Opportunity and Market Analysis (Target Audience, Competitors Benchmarks and KPIs, etc.).
- Align on Product Identity, Key Pillars, Targeted Innovations, and Competitive Positioning.
- Define user research needs and requirements and get insights from the target audience (concept tests, surveys, playtests, icon tests, etc.).
- Bring an outside-in view to the team by benchmarking relevant games and identifying best practices and trends on specific features and systems.
LiveOps & Monetization
- Define and constantly fine-tune the Monetization Strategy and Game Economy.
- Plan, analyze, optimize, and execute LiveOps (in-game events, sales).
- Lead A/B testing to optimize revenue.
- Lead user segmentation and personalization plans.
- Own Product Performance & Growth, in sync with Product Leadership and Marketing.
- Build, own, and maintain quantitative models to measure and manage game engagement and product performance (KPI Framework and Model supporting Revenue Forecast and Weekly Performance tracking).
Product Growth & Reporting
- Set and own Game KPIs target driving impact, and collaborate with the team to drive strategy behind them.
- Define and own reporting and insights on Product Performance to Product Leads, Marketing, and other stakeholders to identify optimization levers and support various decision-making.
- Partner with Marketing on Product Growth (Platform, ASO, UA, Creatives).
Feature Development & Roadmap
- Drive the updates roadmap process.
- Prioritize the content backlog - balancing the needs of the game team, stakeholders, and players - and drive a transparent, collaborative roadmap process, in collaboration with Game Design & Production.
- Rally team and stakeholders feature prioritization using data and market insights.
Team Leadership & Collaboration
- Manage the embedded analysts in the team, prioritizing their work and partnering with Central Analytics on training, mentoring, and career growth.
- Manage the Game Economy Designer(s) embedded in the team, prioritizing their work and partnering with Game Design on training, mentoring, and career growth.
- Lead a team of data analysts and economic designers.
Qualifications
Experience & Skills
- 5+ years of experience in game development is required.
- Mobile F2P game expertise in a relevant role is required, including experience in working on live titles.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving ability through the use of hands-on exploration of data.
- Intermediate Excel, Amplitude, and self-serve analytics tools experience is a must.
- Experience in A/B testing and segmentation is desired.
- Good design instincts and understanding of the player base.
- Skills for competitor benchmarking and market analysis.
- Self-motivated and focused on product growth, relentlessly identifying the most important levers and KPIs driving impact.
- Ability to be a change agent within and outside the team, translating data insights into actions.
- Proven ability to partner with cross-functional disciplines, build trust with teammates, and influence effectively.
- Strong presentation skills, ability to communicate complex results throughout an organization at all levels.
- People management skills are desired.
Why Ludia?
At Ludia, we believe in creating a workplace as inspiring as the games we produce. Here is what you can expect:
- Flexibility: Hybrid options, flexible hours, and a vibrant downtown Montreal studio.
- Wellness: Competitive pay, day-one benefits, RRSP match, generous vacation, and mobile days.
- Growth: Training, mentorship, workshops, and career opportunities in gaming.
- Culture: A team of passionate gamers making memorable experiences worldwide where innovation and creativity thrives.
We value and celebrate diversity in our team, and we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and contribute their unique perspectives. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, and we are excited to hear from everyone!