Chief Product & Monetization Lead

YallaPlay

Abu Dhabi

Hybrid

AED 350,000 - 700,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

UAE visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Remote flexibility

Learning budget

Generous paid time off

Job summary

YallaPlay is seeking a Head of Product & Monetization to drive product strategy, monetization economics, and LiveOps across our live game portfolio. You will own roadmaps, KPIs, and player experiences, reporting directly to the CEO.

Remote will be considered for the right candidate with Gulf-hours overlap. You will lead the Product function, manage the Producer and Art Lead, and align production, design, and art around high-impact, measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

:10+ years in mobile free-to-play games, the majority in product roles on live titles.
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Hands-on monetization systems experience: you have personally designed offer systems, passes, VIP economies, IAP catalogs, or similar systems and can reason about their math in detail.
Ownership of revenue or retention targets for a live game, with results you can speak to.
Strong analytical fluency: dashboards, cohorts, funnels, and A/B results, and able to pull your own numbers when needed.
Strong product judgment across game systems, player journeys, progression, rewards, UX, LiveOps, economy, and monetization.
Experience leading cross‑functional teams across product, production, design, and art, including managing experienced leads without absorbing their jobs.
Clear, direct communication in English, and comfort working with a multicultural remote team across time zones.
Strong execution judgment: able to simplify roadmaps, cut low-value work, resolve trade-offs, and push teams toward measurable outcomes.
Strong Advantage: Depth in card, board, casual, or real-time multiplayer games.
Experience managing both product and creative/art functions.
VIP and whale engagement, segmentation, and personalized monetization.
Ad mediation, placement strategy, and ad revenue optimization.
Taking games from soft launch to global launch and live operations.
Familiarity with MENA markets or Arabic.
Unity and mobile production pipelines; SQL or similar data skills.

Responsibilities

Own the product roadmap and KPI outcomes for our live titles: revenue, ARPDAU, retention, LTV, conversion, engagement, and economy health.
Own product discovery, prioritization logic, product requirements, feature rationale, success metrics, and post-launch decisions for major game changes.
Lead monetization and economy strategy: IAP catalog and pricing, offer segmentation, season passes, VIP programs, collection systems, ad monetization, and the balance between ads and IAP.
Own the LiveOps strategy across events, offers, seasonal content, player segmentation, and content cadence, ensuring LiveOps is measured and connected to retention, monetization, and long-term game health.
Guide game systems and product design: progression, rewards, player journeys, UX, economy changes, and monetization experiments, using dashboards, A/B tests, player behavior, and competitor analysis to decide what to build, cut, scale, or rework.
Manage the Producer and Art Lead, ensuring Product, Production, and Art are aligned with clear ownership, realistic roadmaps, on-time delivery, strong execution, and visual quality that matches the bar of the genre.
Establish lightweight product discipline: assumption documentation before build, design review gates, KPI reviews after launch, and post-mortems.
Build the operating rhythm across Product, Production, Art, Engineering, BI, UA, VIP Support, and AdMon: roadmap reviews, LiveOps planning, prioritization, trade-off decisions, and performance follow-ups.
Identify team gaps, quality issues, process weaknesses, and resourcing needs, and drive practical fixes.