Product Manager – Live Ops & Data-Driven Gaming

Sumo Digital Ltd; Royal Leamington Spa; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits package

Salary sacrifice pension

Employee referral scheme (up to £1,000

Workplace ISA

Tech loans, car loans, bicycles

Flexible working

21 days holiday + birthdays off

Christmas shutdown

Learning days

Job summary

Sumo Digital Ltd in Leamington Spa is seeking a Live Ops professional to support Lab42 Games on multiple projects across engines and platforms. The role blends analysis, strategy, and stakeholder communication to inform pitches and development.

You will work within Lab42’s flexible, fun culture to balance business needs with player experiences. You will apply data-driven insights, backlog prioritisation, and cross-functional collaboration to guide decisions and deliver value across projects from

Qualifications

• Experience in the games industry in disciplines such as game design, product management, or live operations.
• Strong understanding of the games market, current market trends and player behaviors.
• Ability to use data and insights to identify opportunities and measure impact.
• Proactive, evidence-based problem solving with evidence-backed recommendations.
• Experience prioritising backlogs within a development environment; publishing experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Generate insights to inform game pitches, game development, and general strategy.
• Apply AI tools to advance early-stage development - build on initial requirements to produce well-developed concepts, wireframes, and supporting research.
• Analyse game data and use it to structure your arguments and suggestions, and to prioritise a backlog of work.
• Pitch and promote your strategy within a cross-disciplinary team.
• Act as a stakeholder between external and internal team, presenting and pitching work to both customers and colleagues.
• Regularly report game performance from prototype to sunset.
• Work across multiple projects at any given time, switching between different priorities and contexts while maintaining momentum and delivery quality.

Skills

Games industry exp

Game design

Product management

Live operations

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

Sumo Digital Ltd in Leamington Spa is seeking a Live Ops professional to support Lab42 Games on multiple projects across engines and platforms. The role blends analysis, strategy, and stakeholder communication to inform pitches and development.

You will work within Lab42’s flexible, fun culture to balance business needs with player experiences. You will apply data-driven insights, backlog prioritisation, and cross-functional collaboration to guide decisions and deliver value across projects from