Product Manager | Candy Crush Soda Saga

Overview

In this role, you will shape the Stand Out in the Market strategy for Candy Crush Soda Saga within the Kairos team, driving differentiated player experiences that boost engagement, retention and monetisation. You’ll work with cross-functional partners to turn market opportunities into testable hypotheses, executing launches that scale in priority markets. Your data, player insight and competitive awareness will guide investment, iteration, and prioritisation, balancing speed with quality.

This is an individual contributor role with significant influence on the team’s direction and outcomes.

• Translate strategy into clear opportunities, hypotheses and priorities
• Understand player needs, market trends and Soda’s unique proposition in priority markets
• Identify opportunities for compelling, repeatable experiences that differentiate the game
• Define success metrics and connect feature outcomes to engagement, retention and monetisation
• Collaborate with Product Director and leads to refine the roadmap based on evidence
• Surface assumptions, risks and dependencies and design proportionate tests
• Lead product development from problem framing to launch and iteration
• Collaborate with design, engineering, art, analytics to ensure fun, feasible and commercially effective experiences
• Balance discovery with delivery to learn quickly while maintaining quality at scale
• Maintain focus on high-value work and manage prioritisation across dependencies
• Coordinate dependencies across Meta, LiveOps, Marketing and Soda teams
• Use data, qualitative research and competitive analysis to inform decisions
• Define learning agendas for experiments and assess results and risks
• Document decisions, hypotheses and outcomes for stakeholders
• Communicate strategy, progress and decisions to team and senior stakeholders
• Adapt communication to audience and build alignment across intersecting teams
• Represent player perspective and commercial rationale in cross-functional discussions
• Build strong cross-discipline relationships and resolve ambiguity and blockers
• Support planning and ways of working to improve speed, quality and decisions

• Experience as a Product Manager in free-to-play or mobile/high-scale consumer products
• Strong product judgement linking player experience to business value and delivery reality
• Proven track record taking initiatives from insight through testing, launch and iteration
• Strong analytical skills with data-driven decision making
• Curiosity about player behaviour, game design, LiveOps, monetisation and competitive dynamics
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in iterative development
• Clear, concise communication and stakeholder management
• Comfort with ambiguity and pragmatic prioritisation
• Motivation to build experiences used by millions of players globally

• clear communication
• stakeholder-management
• collaboration
• data analysis
• experimental design
• liveops and monetisation concepts