Product Owner

7 Months ago • 5 Years +

Product Management

Job Description

Product Madness seeks a Product Owner in Gdansk (hybrid, 2 days/week in office) for their Innovation Lab. Responsibilities include establishing product vision, writing PRD documents, managing the game development schedule using team output and backlog metrics, prioritizing and refining the backlog, participating in Scrum meetings, ensuring backlog item relevance and accurate tracking, owning the feature lifecycle from concept to optimization, conducting competitive analysis, and following/reporting budget progress to stakeholders. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience leading F2P mobile game production, fluent English, strong communication and data analysis skills, budget management experience, extensive mobile gaming market knowledge, and passion for the F2P economy. Agile methodology understanding is a plus.

Must Have:

5+ years F2P mobile game production experience
Fluent English
Strong communication & data analysis
Budget management
Mobile gaming market expertise
PRD writing
Scrum experience
Agile methodology knowledge

Perks:

Snacks
Weekly breakfasts & lunches
Lavish parties
Happy hour drinks
Social get-togethers

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We are looking for a Product Owner in Gdansk (hybrid model - 2 times per week in the office). You will support our Innovation Lab project.

What You'll Do

Establishes a shared vision of the product between the team and stakeholders

Writing feature, stories and requirements documents — PRDs;

Takes the responsibility for the long-term schedule of the game’s development, using the metrics from team output and the product backlog. Continuously prioritises and refines the product backlog

Participates in all Scrum meetings. Accepts or rejects sprint results

Ensures that the items in the backlog are relevant to their features, or that their features are dependent on, tracked, sized and prioritised accurately

Ownership across the lifecycle of a feature from concept through launch and managing the ongoing analysis and optimization phases;

Researching and analysing strategic and competitive information to constantly optimise the products and its performance.

Follows the budget and reports progress to stakeholders

What We're Looking For

At least 5 years of XP in leading the production of Free to Play Mobile Games

Fluent English (full proficiency)

Perfect communication skills

Strong data analysis capacities

Ability to follow a budget

Nimble, result oriented, able to go out of his/her comfort zone

Extended knowledge of the mobile gaming market. Ability to deconstruct the main F2P successes of the last 5 years in terms of gameplay loop, metagame and monetization triggers

Passion for mobile games and a smart vision of the mobile game industry and the free2play economy

Solid understanding and practice of agile methodologies is a plus.

Why Product Madness?

You will be joining a global powerhouse where you will be part of a world-class talented team that creates remarkable hit games such as Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino, Mighty Fu, and Big Fish Casino. The success of these titles has led to over 400 million downloads and more than 50 million active users. But there is no stopping us there, we also have a new games team that is working on bringing new hit games to the market. Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital games division of Pixel United.

Outstanding growth has seen us build Product Madness to more than 800 team members and counting, you can join one of our seven global talent hubs including London, USA, Canada, Spain, Poland, Ukraine & Israel.

You will be part of a company that is not only Mad about games but Mad about our people. Living by our value of people first, you will feel this firsthand from the moment you step into one of our fantastic studios. This is made possible by our amazing studio experience team who help make Product Madness such a fun place to work. Be it arranging endless snacks, weekly breakfasts & lunches, lavish Christmas & summer parties, happy hour drinks, social get-togethers and so much more.

So what is stopping you from coming and joining the Madness?