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About the Role

As an Associate Product Director for Farm Heroes Saga, you will lead the Game Systems product domain. Your responsibilities include translating strategy into impactful product plans, driving player engagement, retention, and monetization through features, events, progression, meta systems, economy, and monetization. You will shape roadmaps, lead cross-functional teams, and ensure the successful delivery of initiatives that create meaningful impact for players and the business.

Responsibilities

Shape strategy and ensure alignment across Farm Heroes Saga.
Lead Product for the Game Systems area, driving execution across discovery, delivery, testing, and continuous optimization.
Own performance across key player and business metrics, using data and player insights to identify opportunities, manage risks, and guide product decisions.
Partner with Creative and Tech Leads to shape the Game Systems organization's culture, ways of working, and long-term effectiveness.
Lead and develop Product and Data Science talent, creating an environment where individuals and teams can thrive.
Build strong partnerships across Product, Art + Design, Engineering, and Data to align priorities and deliver high-impact initiatives.
Champion rapid learning through experimentation, AI-enabled product development, and data-informed decision making.
Drive operational excellence by improving planning, prioritization, communication, and organizational effectiveness.
Represent the Game Systems area with clarity and credibility, influencing stakeholders and communicating progress, risks, and opportunities.

Requirements

Significant experience leading product teams within live service games or digital consumer products, delivering measurable business impact.
Strong product judgment with the ability to balance player needs, commercial outcomes, and technical considerations.
Proven experience translating strategy into clear priorities, roadmaps, and successful product execution.
Excellent people leadership skills, with experience coaching and developing high-performing teams.
Exceptional communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build alignment across complex organizations.
Strong analytical mindset, using data, experimentation, and player insights to drive decisions.
Leverages AI to accelerate product discovery, experimentation, and delivery while maintaining a strong focus on player value and product quality.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity, making effective trade-offs, and leading through change.
Passion for building outstanding player experiences through iterative development, rapid learning, and outcome-driven decision making.
Continuous improvement mindset, always looking for better ways of working, collaborating, and delivering impact.

Skills

Product Management
Game Systems
Roadmap Shaping
Data Analysis
Player Insights
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Talent Development
Stakeholder Management
Experimentation
AI-enabled Product Development
Operational Excellence
Strategic Planning
Commercial Awareness
Organizational Leadership

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Associate Product Director

About the Company

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with a mission of Making the World Playful.
King has a history of delivering iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the Candy Crush franchise and Farm Heroes Saga.
King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users.
King is part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT).
King has offices in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta.
King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.
King is passionate about bringing moments of magic to players and challenging themselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way.
King plays as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale.

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