Senior Director of Product

Scopely; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote within the United States

Hybrid work from Culver City, CA

Job summary

Scopely in the United States seeks a senior product leader to guide discovery and development for new mobile game concepts. You will apply senior judgment and hands-on prototyping to assess opportunities, turning ideas into playable experiences and deciding where to invest further.

You will build evaluation frameworks, collaborate with analytics and UA teams, shape hypotheses with design and engineering, and use AI-enabled workflows to prototype and learn from player feedback.

Qualifications

• Director-level product leadership in mobile games or consumer digital products; mobile game experience strongly preferred.
• Strong judgment in recognizing compelling player experiences and opportunities worth testing.
• Experience with experimentation programs, evaluation frameworks, KPIs, benchmarks, or structured product decisions.
• Ability to synthesize market research and incomplete information into clear recommendations.
• Demonstrated use of AI in creative, product, or development workflows, plus comfort with hands-on prototyping and modern game development tools.

Responsibilities

• Research markets, competitors, player needs, genres, and audiences to recommend promising opportunities.
• Build and evolve evaluation frameworks, including stage gates, benchmarks, KPIs, and criteria for advancing or stopping concepts.
• Partner with analytics and user acquisition teams to define instrumentation, tests, and measures of player interest and product performance.
• Work with design, engineering, art, and product teammates to shape hypotheses, gameplay loops, creative direction, and test plans.
• Use AI-enabled workflows and development tools to create prototypes, launch them to players, and interpret qualitative and quantitative feedback.
• Establish repeatable product practices and decision frameworks that improve how concepts are explored and developed.

Skills

Director-level product leadership

Mobile game experience

Experimentation programs

AI in workflows

Hands-on prototyping

Tools

Game development tools

Job description

Role overview

Guide product discovery and development for new mobile game concepts through rapid experimentation. You’ll combine senior product judgment with hands‑on prototyping, helping teams assess opportunities, turn promising ideas into playable experiences, and decide where further development is warranted.

Responsibilities

• Research markets, competitors, player needs, genres, and audiences to recommend promising opportunities.


• Build and evolve evaluation frameworks, including stage gates, benchmarks, KPIs, and criteria for advancing or stopping concepts.


• Partner with analytics and user acquisition teams to define instrumentation, tests, and measures of player interest and product performance.


• Work with design, engineering, art, and product teammates to shape hypotheses, gameplay loops, creative direction, and test plans.


• Use AI-enabled workflows and development tools to create prototypes, launch them to players, and interpret qualitative and quantitative feedback.


• Establish repeatable product practices and decision frameworks that improve how concepts are explored and developed.

Requirements

• Director-level product leadership in mobile games or other consumer digital products; mobile game experience is strongly preferred.


• Strong judgment in recognizing compelling player experiences and opportunities worth testing.


• Experience with experimentation programs, evaluation frameworks, KPIs, benchmarks, or structured product decisions.


• Ability to synthesize market research and incomplete information into clear recommendations.


• Demonstrated use of AI in creative, product, or development workflows, plus comfort with hands‑on prototyping and modern game development tools.


• Ability to make considered trade‑offs and decisions amid uncertainty.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote within the United States or hybrid from Culver City, California.