Senior Product Manager - Live Ops

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, looking for a Senior Product Manager - Live Ops to join a new unannounced project. The role involves guiding features and major beats from concept through live operations for a cross-platform strategy game, focusing on player experience and business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Own outcomes for one or more pods as a product owner, identifying obstacles, aligning stakeholders, and helping teams make clear decisions in a dynamic environment
• Build deep knowledge of the product and its position within the genre to understand player motivations, expectations, and opportunities from a global perspective
• Write product specifications that align teams on opportunity, risk, target KPIs, decision points, and competitive analysis as part of the feature greenlight process
• Use core metrics to develop hypotheses and strategies that support player value while balancing business goals
• Guide product innovation that improves target KPIs, drawing on both new ideas and proven practices when each is most appropriate
• Develop and refine decision-making frameworks that help teams navigate tradeoffs in resource-constrained and evolving environments
• Partner with the UX Lead and research teams to design and run hypothesis testing that supports informed, data-driven decisions
• Mentor and support junior product managers, contributing to an inclusive and collaborative team culture

Requirements:

• Significant experience leading product management work in mobile free-to-play games, ideally on a live game
• Own and drive experimentation through A/B testing to validate hypotheses and guide decision-making
• Experience driving revenue and engagement goals on a live game
• Ability to balance technology, business priorities, and user experience
• Experience working within complex player ecosystems that include a range of lifecycle stages and spending behaviors
• Ability to clearly articulate the 'why' behind product decisions to build alignment around product vision
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in cross-platform development across mobile, HD, and PC, with an understanding of tradeoffs and synergies across platforms
• Deep familiarity with ARPG mobile games and/or 4X mobile games
• Experience working with game engines, preferably Unity
• Strong analytical and investigative thinking
• Understanding of game design concepts and principles