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Associate Product Director - Candy Content
The Candy Crush content team is looking for an Associate Product Director to deliver sustained value to our players, product and business.
As an Associate Product Director you will have end-to-end responsibility for a subset of the product strategy for Candy Crush Content area, reporting to the Area Lead for Content. You’ll ensure that your sub-area’s work is aligned with the game’s overall strategy and long-term vision, and you’ll collaborate with other product areas to ensure a cohesive overall product.
The Associate Product Director will help to create and sustain a collaborative environment within and between teams in Candy, and with partner teams across King.
Role and responsibilities
Shared responsibility for the performance of the Content area and metrics related to it
Lead a cross-functional team with the necessary competencies and processes to own the end-to-end delivery of a subset of the Content area strategy
Enable high-impact, purpose-driven results for the product, the players, the team, and the business
Develop best practices and ways of working to balance timely deliveries with a long term investments
Develop, set and drive the content strategy together with Content Area Lead
Support the coordination of the strategy and roadmap with other areas and key stakeholders
Lead the investment and resource allocation for the product area
Enable a working environment that contributes to team members’ growth
Manage other product managers
Build and grow your team to deliver on the strategy
Skills
Strong product and business performance knowledge
Able to lead multiple cross-functional teams and be a “leader of leads”
Able to take ownership of both business impact and team engagement
Understanding of production processes and ability to drive delivery
Able to establish impactful processes and ways of working for a highly functional org
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Able to contribute to a positive, evolving team culture and environment to support engagement, ownership, and accountability
About King
King is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
Making the World Playful
Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid-core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!
Applications need to be in English.
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