Head of Product (Mobile Gaming)

Position

Head of Product

Company

Values Value

Company website

https://valuesvalue.com

Seniority

Senior

Employment Type

Full time

Salary

Negotiable

Location

Relocate, Barcelona

Values Value is a recruiting company with expertise in game development and is currently looking for a Head of Product to run an in-house game studio/squad within the gaming business unit of a global ad-tech group. Founded in 2018, the unit builds and scales a portfolio of casual evergreen mobile games – cards, words, puzzles, board games. It benefits from being part of a larger ad-tech company with its own ad network, proprietary data and personalized monetization infrastructure. The unit is rebuilding itself as an AI-native organization, instead of departments and management layers, work is organized around small squads, each running like a small studio that owns its games end to end. You will run an internal product studio – a squad that owns 1–3 titles end to end, and as Product Coach you will set the product standards every squad in the unit works to.

What are you working on?

• Genres: Puzzle, Word Games, Card and/or Board
• Platforms: Mobile

For which tasks (responsibilities)?

• Own the eProfit of your squad's games end to end: product, LiveOps, UA and monetization decisions, with retention, ARPU, CPI and eROAS as leading indicators
• Shape your studio: propose the targets you are ready to commit to and the team you need to hit them (product, marketing, other skills), staffed from within the unit or through new hires; make the input-vs-output trade-off explicit
• Write the PRDs, hypotheses and experiment plans for the highest-stakes bets yourself, and stay in the data daily
• Build the strategy and plan for scaling your studio
• Use AI as the squad's operating layer: agents for research, QA, release and analytics, pulling data and models from the shared intelligence layer
• Run the squad scorecard (lagging + leading indicators); when it goes off track, own the recovery plan

As Product Coach – you set the product standards for the whole gaming unit:

• Set and maintain the standards every squad works to: PRD quality, hypothesis and experiment design, experiment qualification, release evaluation, how product metrics are read
• Make product expertise accessible to other product managers or other directly responsible individuals: a set share of your time for office hours, experiment reviews, playbooks and worked examples from your own studio, so that what works in your studio spreads across the unit
• Lead by example: your studio is the reference implementation of the standards

What kind of professional are we looking for?

• 7+ years in a senior product or product-engineering leadership role in mobile gaming — specifically ad-monetized casual evergreen titles (cards, words, puzzles, board games, simple casual)
• Genuinely hands-on: you write PRDs, live in the data and build things yourself with AI
• AI-native: concrete examples of AI tools accelerating your output that made it to production
• Leadership by proximity: you've led small, high-performance teams in a fast-moving environment and grow people by working alongside them
• Deep understanding of ad-monetization and UA economics: eCPM, ARPU/ARPDAU, retention curves, LTV, CPI, eROAS
• Fluent English (at least Upper-Intermediate)

Strong signals

• You founded or co-founded a mobile gaming studio
• You've directly scaled an ad-monetized casual game from early traction to meaningful portfolio revenue
• You've built internal tooling, automation pipelines or SDK integrations alongside product work

What is important for us in a person?

• End-to-end ownership with judgment – reasons from first principles, decides fast and stands behind the call
• Competence and care – deep domain knowledge and genuine care about the outcome you own
• Resilience – keeps coming back after setbacks; the environment moves fast
• Executional excellence – sets the long-term picture, breaks it into stages and holds the team accountable for delivery
• Influence without authority – moves standards across other squads through expertise and example

Why do we enjoy working here?

• Real end-to-end ownership: your squad, your games, your P&L – with a clear path to more scope as you deliver
• A company-wide voice on how product is done, not just in your own studio
• A chance to help shape an AI-native operating model that is deliberately ahead of where most of the industry works today
• Part of a larger ad-tech group – access to a proprietary ad network, data and personalized monetization infrastructure as a built-in edge
• A small, senior, high-ownership team with no unnecessary management layers
• A culture built around data-driven decisions, ownership, continuous improvement and a lean-startup mentality

What are the conditions and bonuses?

• Hybrid role in Barcelona, 4 days/week in the office
• Full-time staff position, fully official employment in Spain
• Relocation to Barcelona, with a relocation package for the candidate and family
• Medical insurance, meals and beverages at the office, gym and language courses
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• 6-month probation period
• Stock options in the gaming unit

The selection process

• Screening with the Values Value recruiter
• Interview with the General Manager of the Gaming unit
• Interview with a board member / co-founder
• Test task (optional)
• Offer

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