Business Unit Leader

4 Months ago • All levels • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

Playkot seeks a Business Unit Leader to spearhead the development of a new mobile streaming service featuring vertical mini-dramas. This is a ground-up creation with the potential to spin off into a separate company. Responsibilities include product strategy, economic management, full product development lifecycle oversight (concept to launch and beyond), working with product metrics (conversion, retention, monetization), backlog prioritization, content creation partnerships, and marketing team collaboration. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of successful mobile product development, strong analytical skills, entrepreneurial drive, and fluency in Russian.
Must have:
  • Mobile product development experience
  • Product & business metrics expertise
  • Product management skills (planning, market assessment, A/B testing)
  • Paid traffic purchasing & analysis
  • Entrepreneurial mindset & responsibility
  • Fluency in Russian
Good to have:
  • Video content or streaming service experience
  • Short-form video content understanding
  • Experience creating successful projects from scratch
Perks:
  • Opportunity to co-found a new business with equity
  • Company resources & support
  • Potential to become CEO of a new business unit
  • Relocation assistance to Serbia, Armenia, or other agreed locations
  • Flexible work format (office, remote, hybrid)
  • $1000/year for health insurance, sports, therapy, education, language learning, or coworking
  • 20 vacation days
  • 100% salary during sick leave and vacations

Job Details

We are looking for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset to create and develop a new business direction in the mobile entertainment segment. The project will focus on creating a streaming service in the format of vertical mini-dramas - a fast-growing segment of the mobile entertainment market.
The position will report directly to the Playkot CEO with an opportunity to develop into a full-fledged business unit.

What we will trust you with

  • Building a new business from scratch with the prospect of spinning off into a separate company.
  • Development of product strategy and control of its implementation.
  • Full management of the project economy and its scaling.
  • Managing the full product development cycle from concept to launch and further development.
  • Working with product metrics: conversion, retention, monetization.
  • Formation and prioritization of the product backlog.
  • Working on content creation with partners.
  • Interacting with the marketing team to attract and analyze traffic,

What we expect from you

  • Experience in creating and developing successful products in the mobile market segment.
  • Experience and ability to work with product and business metrics.
  • A standard set of product manager skills: planning skills, market assessment, conducting and interpreting A/B tests, etc.
  • Experience in purchasing and analyzing the effectiveness of paid traffic.
  • Entrepreneurial thinking, willingness to take responsibility for the result.
  • Fluent Russian.

What would be a plus

  • Experience working with video content or streaming services.
  • Understanding the specifics of short-form video content.
  • Experience in creating successful projects from scratch.

What we offer

  • An opportunity to create a new product from scratch in a promising market segment, an opportunity to become a co-founder of a new business with a share in this business.
  • The company resources and support for your launch.
  • The prospect of developing your own business unit with the possibility of becoming its CEO.
  • Possibility of relocation to Serbia, Armenia or another agreed-upon country.
  • Assistance with paperwork and residence permits in the countries where the company is present.
  • Flexible work format: office, remote or hybrid.
  • Social package based on the DIY principle: $1000 per year for voluntary health insurance, sports, therapy, education, language learning or coworking rent – in any proportion you choose.
  • 20 workdays of vacation, 100% salary retention during sick leave and vacations.

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About The Company

Playkot is an international game development company with a team of over 280 specialists and three successful game projects in operation.We've been making games for the past 15 years, but now we're going beyond game development and launching new AI-driven products. It will be an internal startup and we're looking for an experienced entrepreneur to lead it asCEO.If you know how to build and scale B2C products from scratch, thrive on freedom to make decisions, and are ready to take full responsibility for growth, we should have a meet as soon as possible!

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