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Game Lead, Games

Carry1st is the leading publisher of mobile games in Africa. We work with studios across the globe to level up their games and scale in dynamic, frontier markets. In addition, Carry1st has built a proprietary payments engine, Pay1st, and ecommerce platform, the Carry1st Shop, which allows customers to pay for digital content leveraging local payment methods.

As Senior Product Manager, Games, you’ll drive development, scale challenges, and deliver fun, constantly improving player experiences. You will develop the product vision and specifications to drive revenue, using data to inform your decisions. We are looking for a mix of leadership and product management, as making your ideas reality requires you to be able to articulate a vision and partner with teammates across different verticals.

Requirements

What will you do?

• Deconstruct Games, Competitor Features into digestible insights for the team and incorporate it into product requirements
• Impact end-to-end product lifecycle of mobile free to play games
• Develop products that achieve business goals while being mindful of development costs
• Own results of games and consistently manage against expectations
• Develop and apply a hypothesis based analytical approach, conduct experiments and communicate learnings to the team
• Become an expert in understanding customers and building engaging features that make everyone excited to come back and see what’s new
• Analyze data and translate findings into actionable next steps or new features
• Make tradeoffs between scope, delivery dates, and business goals
• Monitor the games landscape to understand market opportunities and trends

What makes you a great candidate?

• 4+ years of experience in F2P Games, preferably in product oriented roles
• Experienced in operation of live games and data-driven environments
• Experience leading teams to align and execute against a product vision and goals
• Able to create & design experiences that shape positive player behaviors
• Strong quantitative analysis skills and a history of supporting data informed decisions
• Structured problem solver and expert at prioritization
• Able to combine creative thinking with data-driven decisions
• Passion for games, mobile games in particular
• Extensive knowledge of the mobile market

Benefits

What will we offer you?

• The opportunity to work on awesome, industry-changing games, every day
• Highly autonomous environment & ability to have impact at scale
• Fully remote - work from anywhere in the world
• Equity ownership