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Senior Director, Area Lead – Monetization & Economy
9 days ago
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Job Description:
As Area Lead - Monetization & Economy, you will be leading cross-functional teams, with the mandate and expectations to deliver high-quality impactful experiences to our players. You’ll ensure that your organization's work is aligned with CCSS’s overall strategy and long-term vision, and you’ll collaborate with other senior leaders in Soda and King to ensure a cohesive overall product. In this role you will help to create and sustain a collaborative environment within and between teams in Soda, and with partner teams across King. The primary purpose of this role is to enable high-impact, purpose-driven results for the product, the players, the team, and the business.
Your role within our Kingdom
- Ensure the Monetization & Economy Area has a vision, strategy and roadmap covering product, process and people in coherence with Soda’s overall strategy
- Communicate and create excitement of the area product vision and strategy and how it is related to overall strategy
- Full accountability for the Monetization & Economy Area player experience and business performance related to it
- Coordination and collaboration of strategy and roadmap with other leaders and key stakeholders both within Soda and King
- Communicate changes, align and provide feedback on progress and results within Soda and to other stakeholders as needed
- Ensuring quality standards are being applied, and balancing timely deliveries with a long-term perspective of the product
- Own the high-level investment allocation and org design of the area
- Recruit, build and lead a strong team with the necessary competencies and processes to own the end-to-end delivery of value
- Collaborate with craft leaders and the People team to create a working environment that enables Area members’ growth, and coach, support and challenge leaders inside and outside the Area to contribute to this
- Establish impactful activities within the area such as ways of working, prioritization, decision-making, planning, estimation and good collaboration within the team and with other areas
Skills to Create Thrills
You have the vision and ability to see the bigger picture, and translate it into innovative initiatives. As a manager, you know how to develop, lead and inspire a highly-skilled team. Other skills include:
- Able to fully own a business area and make product/team decisions to deliver on business goals
- A strong product and business performance knowledge
- Able to lead and coach leaders for multiple cross-functional teams.
- Able to take ownership of both business impact and team engagement
- Able to collaborate effectively with peers and partners
- Understanding of production and operations processes and ability to drive delivery
- Able to assess headcount needs and provide business cases and staffing prioritization
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Able to establish impactful processes and ways of working for a highly functional org
- Able to create a positive, evolving team culture and environment to support engagement, ownership, and accountability
About King
At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.
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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