Senior Product Manager

Description:

We are a startup team within Papaya Gaming, a successful and established gaming company.

Our unit runs with full startup energy and agility, while benefiting from the stability and resources of Papaya. We’re building a social gaming platform – where games, challenges, and community come together in one engaging experience.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, someone who owns a domain end-to-end: product, UX, economy, data, strategy, and execution.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys:

• Thinking in systems, not just features
• Working closely with design, engineering, and marketing
• Combining creativity with data-driven decision making
• Moving fast while maintaining a high bar for quality
• Using AI to significantly scale their impact

• Own a core domain (feed, challenges, tournaments, creator tools, economy)
• Define product strategy, vision, and roadmap
• Translate ideas into clear PRDs, flows, and requirements
• Lead execution from concept → launch → continuous optimization
• Design and optimize the core loop: create → participate → compete → share → repeat
• Build systems that drive: Retention, Engagement, Virality
• Work closely with design on end-to-end user experience
• Focus on clarity, simplicity, and strong product flows
• Pay attention to details that improve usability and delight
• Design reward systems, progression, and virtual economies
• Balance monetization with fairness and user trust
• Address challenges like liquidity, matchmaking, and fraud
• Define KPIs and success metrics
• Run experiments and analyze results
• Use data to inform decisions while applying strong product intuition
• • Partner closely with marketing on: Go-to-market strategy, Messaging & positioning, UA creatives and growth loops
• • Ensure strong alignment between product experience and acquisition
• AI-First Way of Working (Important)

We work in an

AI-first environment, where AI is a core part of how we build and operate.

In this role, you’ll be expected to:

• Use AI to significantly increase speed and quality across your workflow

• Build or leverage AI-driven processes for: Research & insights, Documentation and specs, Data analysis and reporting

• Think in terms of automation and scalable workflows, not manual work.

• 4+ years in Product Management (consumer/mobile)

• Proven experience shipping products with impact on:

Engagement, Retention and Revenue

Product Thinking

• Strong systems thinking (loops, not features)
• Deep understanding of:
• User behavior & motivation
• Social mechanics & virality
• Game mechanics & progression

Execution

• Comfortable in fast-paced, 0→1 environments
• Writes clear, structured specs (PRDs, flows, edge cases)
• Works closely with design, engineering, and marketing
• High ownership and accountability

Data & Technical

• Strong analytical skills (SQL / Amplitude / Mixpanel or similar)
• Comfortable working with engineers on APIs, backend systems, and mobile apps

Advantages:

• Experience building B2C mobile apps
• Strong advantage: experience in
• social / entertainment platforms
• Background in: Gaming / skill-based systems, Creator economy, Growth / monetization
• Experience with: Virtual economies / LiveOps, Social feeds & ranking systems
• Experience building AI workflows or automations
• Passion for platforms like TikTok and Instagram, with a strong understanding of what makes them engaging