Product Manager

About the Role
Join King’s Candy Crush Soda Saga team as a Product Manager for the Content Distribution theme. You’ll shape how level content is designed, developed and delivered to millions of players, influencing the core day‑to‑day experience of the game. This individual contributor role works across product thinking, prioritization, and cross‑functional collaboration with designers, analysts, engineers, and other product leaders.

Accountabilities

• Product Impact – Ensure the team delivers meaningful value to players and measurable business impact, both short‑ and long‑term.
• Team Performance – Work with cross‑functional peers to maintain a happy, motivated, and high‑performing team.
• Craft Contribution – Contribute to the product‑management community by sharing insights, participating in learning & development, and supporting craft initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Planning – Develop the strategy for Content Distribution in partnership with the Product Director, identifying opportunities to improve player experience and business outcomes. Translate strategy into clear priorities, goals, and roadmaps. Maintain a strong understanding of the product area, market context, player behaviour, and relevant business drivers. Ensure alignment with Soda’s product strategy and King’s broader portfolio goals.
• Execution & Delivery – Keep the team focused on the most valuable problems, balancing short‑term impact with long‑term product health. Lead the product roadmap and day‑to‑day prioritization. Drive alignment across design, engineering, data, and other crafts to deliver initiatives effectively. Define clear problem statements, success measures, and decision criteria. Ensure work is well‑scoped, actionable, and grounded in player and business needs. Use AI tools to accelerate discovery, structure feature specifications, explore opportunity spaces, and prototype early concepts where useful. Maintain execution quality and timely delivery, reprioritizing as needed. Manage dependencies and foster effective workflows aligned with Soda’s principles.
• Decision Making – Make clear, well‑reasoned product decisions using data, experimentation, team expertise, and judgment. Match the depth of analysis to the level of decision risk. Escalate and partner with the Product Director on higher‑risk, higher‑ambiguity, or higher‑impact decisions when appropriate. Help the team move forward with clarity when trade‑offs are required. Document, communicate, and align stakeholders around key decisions and outcomes.
• Cross‑functional Leadership – Create clarity and momentum through strong prioritization, communication, and follow‑through. Build effective working relationships across functions and with adjacent teams. Align stakeholders around goals, trade‑offs, and progress. Support a healthy, high‑performing cross‑functional environment by addressing friction early and partnering with functional managers and leadership where needed. Foster an environment where people can do strong work together, with clear priorities, constructive challenge, and mutual trust.
• Communication & Stakeholder Management – Communicate product direction, priorities, rationale, and results clearly to a range of audiences. Ensure stakeholders have the right context to support timely decisions and effective execution. Represent the team’s work in planning, review, and leadership forums.
• Craft & Community Contribution – Contribute to the growth of product craft within Soda by sharing learnings, improving ways of working, and supporting team and discipline initiatives. Actively seek feedback and continue developing your product‑management capabilities.

Skills & Experience

• Experience in product management, ideally in games, mobile, digital consumer products, or another fast‑moving product environment.
• Ability to own a product area independently while collaborating closely with senior product leadership.
• Comfort working across strategy, execution, and decision making.
• Confident use of data and sound judgment when data is incomplete or ambiguous.
• Skill at identifying opportunities, framing problems clearly, and driving pragmatic solutions.
• Effective cross‑functional partner who brings people together around priorities and outcomes.
• Clear communicator who adapts style to different audiences.
• Strong understanding of market, player needs, business levers, and product trade‑offs.
• Proactive, collaborative, and motivated to improve both product outcomes and team ways of working.

Bonus Points

• Experience in live mobile games or live‑service products.
• Experience working on level content systems, progression, or player‑facing distribution spaces.
• Experience using experimentation and analytics to inform product decisions.
• Comfort using AI tools in day‑to‑day product work.

What we offer

• Opportunity to join a world‑class team of creative and data‑driven thinkers dedicated to making the world playful.
• Direct influence on how players experience Candy Crush Soda Saga every day, shaping the core level‑content that drives the game.
• Highly collaborative and fun environment across London, Barcelona and Stockholm studios, with autonomy to lead high‑impact initiatives and support from a vibrant product community.
• Part of Microsoft, benefiting from global resources and scale.