Ads Product Manager, Monetisation & Economy I Candy Crush Soda Saga

We are looking for a Product Manager to be part of our Monetisation & Economy team in Candy Crush Soda Saga. Join the team in Stockholm, Barcelona, London, or Berlin and help us develop, optimize , and grow the best in-game ads experience for millions of players!

Your role within the Kingdom

As a Product Manager, you will collaborate with analysts, developers, and designers to bring the advertising experience in Candy Crush Soda Saga to the next level. You will be a part of the full development cycle from ideation to post-release optimizations. The learnings acquired along the way will be used as input to new features to increase user engagement and monetization.

Specifically, you will:

• Own the ads roadmap within Candy Crush Soda Saga
• Shape and design ads player experience to drive high advertising engagement
• Lead the ads team and foster strong relationships within the studio and King to ensure a collaborative approach to achieving agreed targets
• Use data to understand the in-game and ads metrics to assess performance of experiences as well as identifying new opportunities
• Be a bottomless source of ideas when it comes to new experiences to test within in-game advertising
• Liaise with our internal stakeholders including Activision Blizzard Media, Marketing, Legal and Finance teams
• Provide stakeholders with regular or ad-hoc updates on the performance of the product

• Establish close collaboration with other product team members, ensuring alignment on direction for ads as well as ensuring cross-collaboration with other areas of the game

Skills to Create Thrills

• You are a passionate problem solver and know how to draw data-driven business insights that will add real value to King. You are proactive and demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment whilst communicating effectively with teams and individuals across King - such as Data Scientists, Game Developers, Designers, and other Product Managers.
• Love for mobile products and have experience in developing high impact features
• Highly analytical, with experience in data-driven decision making
• Strong interest in gaming and advertising business
• Proven Product Management experience in delivering revenue through improving products
• Ability to work in self-directed, fast-paced, results-oriented entrepreneurial environments
• Talent for building strong professional relationships and strong influencing and communication skills
• Curious, empathic, team player

Bonus Skills

• Familiarity with networks such as Google AdMob , Unity, Ironsource , Meta, etc. and prospects they provide to shape ads player experience (duration controls, blocklisting, ads quality control tools, etc.)
• P revious experience from games industry and in-game ads products

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and 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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