About the Role
Big Viking Games is seeking a Lead Product Manager to guide the growth of FishWorld, a long-running social game with a dedicated player community and significant live revenue. This role is ideal for someone passionate about live games, player behavior, monetization, experimentation, and building robust product systems. You will collaborate with leadership, design, engineering, data, art, and live operations to enhance the current FishWorld experience and shape its future across multiple platforms. The ideal candidate possesses strong product judgment, execution skills, commercial acumen, and the ability to translate ambiguity into clear priorities and measurable results.
Responsibilities
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for FishWorld, focusing on growth, retention, monetization, player satisfaction, and long-term product health.
- Partner with leadership to define clear goals, priorities, success metrics, and product tradeoffs.
- Analyze player behavior, economy health, feature performance, content performance, live operations, and business trends to identify high-impact opportunities.
- Lead experimentation across offers, events, live operations, onboarding, engagement loops, pricing, bundles, and monetization systems.
- Work closely with design, engineering, art, live operations, and data to ship improvements quickly, measure performance, and learn from results.
- Help evolve FishWorld into a stronger multi-platform product while preserving what existing players value most.
- Use AI and automation thoughtfully to improve workflows, accelerate analysis, reduce manual effort, and help the team move faster.
- Translate player feedback, community signals, market awareness, and data into practical product decisions.
- Build repeatable product processes that improve planning, prioritization, execution, measurement, and post-launch learning.
- Bring structure, clarity, and accountability to roadmap planning, feature evaluation, live operations planning, and product decision-making.
Requirements
- Combine strong product judgment with hands-on execution.
- Comfortable working with data, leading cross-functional teams, making tradeoffs, and creating structure in a live game environment.
- Experience with live game product management, monetization, growth, or product strategy.
- Experience running A/B tests and using data to guide product and business decisions.
- Experience with game economies, virtual currencies, pricing, bundles, offers, events, and engagement systems.
- Experience with cross-functional leadership across design, engineering, art, live operations, data, and leadership teams.
- Experience turning ambiguous business problems into clear product plans and measurable outcomes.
- Experience balancing player experience, product quality, revenue performance, and long-term game health.
- Experience communicating clearly with executives, stakeholders, and execution teams.
- Experience building operating rhythms, roadmap discipline, and repeatable product processes.
- Experience using AI, automation, or modern tools to improve productivity, analysis, and decision-making.
Skills
- Product Strategy
- Roadmap Planning
- Growth
- Retention
- Monetization
- Player Satisfaction
- Product Health
- Experimentation
- Data Analysis
- AI
- Automation
- Product Management
- A/B Testing
- Game Economies
- Virtual Currencies
- Pricing
- Bundles
- Offers
- Events
- Engagement Systems
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Communication
- Operating Rhythms
- Roadmap Discipline
- Product Processes
- Analytics
- BI Tools
- SQL
- Dashboards
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Lead
- Senior
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, and vision) including HSA/WSA spending account from Day 1
- Participation in the Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)
- RRSP participation and matching
- 15 Vacation Days
- 10 Wellness Days
About the Company
- Big Viking Games is a Canadian gaming company focused on building, operating, and growing long-standing online game communities.
- Our games have entertained players for years, supported by loyal audiences, live operations, content, product innovation, and a deep understanding of player behavior.
- We are entering a new phase of modernization and growth, with a focus on stronger product discipline, better data visibility, smarter live operations, practical AI adoption, and scalable systems that help our games and teams perform at a higher level.
Equal Opportunity
- Big Viking Games is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates.
- We welcome applications from individuals of all abilities and will provide accommodations throughout the hiring process as needed.
- If you require any accommodations, please email hr@bigvikinggames.com so we can work with you to support your needs.
