Director of Product (f/m/d)

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Director of Product to lead the development and sourcing of engaging mobile games. Must have experience in full production cycles, a structured approach, and strong analytical skills. Excellent communication and entrepreneurial mindset are essential.

You will strongly shape the design of the organization. You own the production of our games for the brands, manage the game developers and other teams, and ensure that we meet the defined expectations of the brands.

We are part of the applike group ecosystem, which gives us an unfair advantage in the market (e.g., >500 mio downloaded games from JustDice and Sunday). Our four sister companies are leading in their verticals. With our fifth venture, Tabbler, we now combine forces and revolutionize the advertising market.

Finally, we are financially backed by Bertelsmann, which ensures that we have the necessary financial means to win this market.

We will strongly grow our team within the next few months.

What you will do:

  • You own and manage the development and sourcing process of highly engaging mobile games, from the ideation phase to the planning stage (incl. definition of features and requirements), to the development stage, and to the final delivery
  • You will be the key link between the business team that defines the commercial requirements and the game developers who will create games that reach them
  • You will analyze the market and understand current trends and interesting game opportunities, which will become success stories for our brand partners
  • You ensure a smooth process for all involved parties by having a great understanding of how to manage and work with people
  • You will run A/B and other tests to ensure that we select the best-performing genre, gameplay, and creatives, all in collaboration with our UA team
  • You will support our efforts in working with the teams from the brands (our customers), to ensure quality and CI guidelines are met
  • As you are among the first employees of our new venture, you will have a huge impact on the success of the business, enabling you to grow your own career path
  • In everything you do, you will be supported by a stellar team.

Who you are:

  • You have a proven track record of successful mobile games where you were responsible for the full production cycle
  • You are structured and well organized to ensure that development projects, involving multiple stakeholders, go along as planned and deadlines are met
  • You possess a very entrepreneurial, driven, and highly analytical mindset
  • You are a creative person, at the same time you are highly ambitious and have a hands-on mentality
  • You are an excellent communicator and speak very good English
  • You are very passionate about your work and you are eager to build up a new venture from scratch, with all the opportunities that come along with it

Our benefits for you:

  • High impact and the opportunity to shape our business - Share your creativity, support your ideas with convincing arguments, and make them happen!
  • Fast-paced startup environment & a highly motivated team in a great location (Hamburg Alster)
  • An experienced leadership team and support from our leading sister companies
  • Tech Package: Create game-changing technologies and work with the newest technologies out there. You choose your own hard- and software.
  • Work-Life Package: 2 remote days per week, 30 vacation days, 3 weeks per year of remote work, flexible working hours, dog-friendly kick-ass office in the center of the city.
  • Relocation Package: Visa & legal support, relocation bonus, reimbursement of German Classes costs and more.
  • Happy Belly Package: Monthly company lunch, tons of free snacks and drinks, free breakfast & fresh delicious pastries every Monday
  • Physical & Mental Health Package: In-house gym with personal trainer, various classes like Yoga with expert teachers.
  • Activity Package:Regular team and company events, hackathons.
  • Education Package: Opportunities to boost your professional development with courses and trainings directly connected to your career goals
  • Wealth building: virtual stock options for all our regular employees

Our mission is to create an inspiring work environment for amazing people achieving extraordinary things. Be part of it!

We welcome applications from people who will contribute to the diversity of our Company.

About The Company

applike group is the leading company building in the app economy. Based in Hamburg/Germany, our technologies & businesses cover the full value chain of the mobile apps market.


Our companies work independently but benefit from each others’ technologies and knowledge.


We have set up 5 companies (JustDice, adjoe, Sunday, justtrack, Tabbler) under one roof of applike group.


justDice is responsible for building the world’s largest rewarded mobile gaming experiences. As market-leader in this genre, our goal is to ultimately create the best rewarded games.


adjoe’s ad format generates higher ad revenues than any other solution. adjoe’s UA platform provides quality traffic on scale, leveraging our growing SDK network.


Sunday creates and publishes extremely engaging and addictive mobile games with smart and player-friendly monetisation.


justtrack is our unique answer to optimizing and automating your entire mobile app growth strategy – all on one platform.


Tabbler builds highly engaging mobile games (iOS and Android) for leading consumer brands. End-to-end, from the development to the game’s production to the actual distribution to millions of users in a given region.


These 5 companies receive best in class business support from applike's central service teams: Talent Acquisition, HR, Finance, Office Management and Internal IT.


We are 100 percent tech company where everybody is interested in computer science. We are always giving our best to keep in touch with the newest technology to build the most relevant products. Our mission is to build software with the capability to distribute ads to every mobile device on earth.


We're always looking for new colleagues. Come join us if you're ambitious, smart, kind and want to grow professionally while having a lot of fun. :)

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