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Craft: Technology & Development Job Description: Farm Heroes Saga is one of King’s beloved casual game titles with millions of daily players, delivering strategic match‑3 puzzles in a heartwarming Farm universe that brings joy to players around the world. As an Associate Product Director , you will lead the Game Systems product domain within Farm Heroes Saga, partnering with the Head of Game Systems to translate strategy into impactful product plans and measurable business results. Role Overview Game Systems drives player engagement, retention and monetisation through the experiences beyond Farm's core match-3 gameplay, including features and events, progression, meta systems, economy and monetisation. You will be responsible for shaping roadmaps, driving product performance, leading a cross-functional team, and ensuring the successful delivery of initiatives that create meaningful impact for both players and the business. This role requires strong product judgement, commercial awareness, organisational leadership and operational excellence. Success comes from turning strategy into action, aligning teams around clear priorities, identifying opportunities and risks early, and creating an environment where teams can consistently deliver high-impact work. The role is based in London. Your Role Within Our Kingdom - Work closely with the Head of Game Systems and fellow Associate Product Directors to shape strategy, share learnings and ensure alignment across Farm. - Lead Product for the Game Systems area, driving execution across discovery, delivery, testing and continuous optimisation. - Own performance across key player and business metrics, using data and player insights to identify opportunities, manage risks and guide product decisions. - Partner with the Creative Lead and Tech Lead to lead the Game Systems organisation, shaping its culture, ways of working and long-term effectiveness. - Lead and develop Product and Data Science talent, creating an environment where individuals and teams can thrive. - Build strong partnerships across Product, Art + Design, Engineering and Data to align priorities and deliver high-impact initiatives. - Champion rapid learning through experimentation, AI-enabled product development and data-informed decision making. - Drive operational excellence by improving planning, prioritisation, communication and organisational effectiveness. - Represent the Game Systems area with clarity and credibility, influencing stakeholders and communicating progress, risks and opportunities. Skills to Create Thrills - Significant experience leading product teams within live service games or digital consumer products, delivering measurable business impact. - Strong systems thinking, with the ability to design and optimise interconnected gameplay, progression, economy and monetisation systems that create long-term player value. - Proven experience translating strategy into clear priorities, roadmaps and successful product execution. - Excellent people leadership skills, with experience coaching and developing high-performing teams. - Exceptional communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build alignment across complex organisations. - Strong analytical mindset, using data, experimentation and player insights to drive decisions. - Leverages AI to accelerate product discovery, experimentation and delivery while maintaining a strong focus on player value and product quality. - Comfortable navigating ambiguity, making effective trade-offs and leading through change. - Passion for building outstanding player experiences through iterative development, rapid learning and outcome-driven decision making. - Continuous improvement mindset, always looking for better ways of working, collaborating and delivering impact. About King With a mission of Making the World Playful , King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga . King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.

Craft: Job Description: Job Description We are looking for a Senior Product Analyst to join the Player Value team on Candy Crush Saga . You will own the analytics and operational support that helps the team understand player behaviour, run better experiments, and make faster, sharper decisions. Your primary focus will most likely be the In-App Purchases (IAP) area, though the role may span other parts of the player journey — early funnel, communication systems, or the in-game economy — as priorities evolve. This is a role for someone who is genuinely independent and analytically driven: comfortable owning the experimentation lifecycle end to end , partnering closely with Product Managers, translating messy data into clear recommendations, and rolling up their sleeves on operational work at Candy scale without balking at it. You will work cross-functionally every day and gain hands-on exposure to AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT and Codex , which the team actively uses to accelerate analysis, reporting and communication. Your Role Within Our Kingdom - Own the experimentation lifecycle end to end for your area — from problem formulation and hypothesis design through analysis, readout, recommendation and follow-up. - Perform quantitative (and, where useful, qualitative) analysis of player behaviour to identify opportunities to improve monetisation, retention and player experience. - Turn complex data into clear insights, recommendations and narratives that Product Managers, Designers and leadership can quickly act upon. - Support pricing decisions by analysing price points, offers and promotions, measuring their impact on conversion, revenue and long-term player value. - Help manage the in-game economy by monitoring balance, sinks and sources, and the health of currency and reward systems while proactively identifying risks and opportunities. - Own tracking specifications by defining the events and metrics needed for new features, writing clear tracking documentation and ensuring instrumentation is implemented correctly so data is trustworthy from day one. - Take ownership of operational work at scale, including reporting, observability, data quality, event integrity and coordination, recognising these as essential parts of delivering value in a live game. - Build and maintain Looker dashboards and reporting frameworks that enable self-service analytics and faster decision-making. - Write robust, performant SQL in BigQuery to answer product questions and power analysis and reporting. - Partner closely with Developers, Product Managers and Data Scientists on end-to-end solution delivery, observability, experimentation and data model improvements. - Use segmentation, funnel analysis and journey mapping to explore complex product questions and uncover meaningful insights. - Use AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT and Codex to accelerate analysis, prototyping and communication. - Support the Analytics craft through knowledge sharing, strong data definitions, shared standards and mentoring more junior analysts. What Success Looks Like - You become a trusted analytical partner to your Product Manager, helping shape product decisions through data, experimentation and commercial insight. - You provide reliable, actionable insights that improve product decisions and deepen the team's understanding of players. - You help the team move quickly by surfacing the right facts, reducing ambiguity and connecting data to product outcomes. - You operate effectively in a fast-paced live-game environment, solving problems that rarely come with predefined solutions or established playbooks. - You build strong, trusted relationships with Product, Design, Engineering and Analytics partners, contributing to high-quality end-to-end delivery. - Operational work at scale is executed reliably and efficiently because you treat it as a core part of delivering value rather than a maintenance task. Skills to Create Thrills Core - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record of deriving meaningful insights from behavioural or product data. - Strong SQL skills ( BigQuery preferred ) and confidence working independently with large datasets. - Experience owning or contributing to experimentation and A/B testing , including helping design experiments, interpreting results and translating findings into product recommendations. - Dashboarding experience in Looker (or a comparable BI tool) to build reporting and self-service analytics. - Experience using data to support product, business or operational decisions. - Ability to communicate analysis clearly and concisely through strong data visualisation and evidence-based recommendations. - Comfort working cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering and Data Science. - Genuine independence and initiative — comfortable taking ambiguous product problems and driving them through to actionable outcomes. - Willingness to take ownership of operational work at scale, including tracking, observability and data quality, recognising these as essential parts of delivering product value. Highly Appreciated - Good understanding of statistics, with confidence interpreting experiment results and supporting A/B test analysis. - Python or R for analysis, automation or modelling. - Curiosity about using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT or Codex to accelerate analysis, reporting and communication. Previous experience is welcome but not required. - Experience in games, live-service products or another fast-moving consumer product. Role Scope As a Senior Product Analyst , you will typically operate at the product-theme or feature level, providing analytical leadership across end-to-end solution delivery. You will identify data-driven opportunities, support cross-functional teams through analysis and coordination, and tackle problems that rarely have predefined solutions. The role complements Product Management and Data Science rather than replacing either. The Analytics craft's core contribution is data-driven discovery, experimentation, exploration and recommendation, with a strong emphasis on product understanding, operational excellence, technical independence, stakeholder partnership and the ability to translate data into better product decisions. About King With a mission of Making the World Playful , King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga . King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.