[Hiring] Head of Product Development @Appodeal

Role Description

Appodeal is looking for a Head of Product Development to lead our mobile games portfolio: WordMaker, Solitaire and Brick Blast.

How we're organized:

• We run squads, not cross-functional departments. Each game has its own squad (product, engineering, QA, design and marketing in one unit).
• Every squad is led by a DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) who owns that app end-to-end, from roadmap to profit.
• There are no shared teams and no handoffs between functions: the squad is the unit of ownership.

This role encompasses both sides of that model:

• DRI of your own squad: You personally lead at least one of our apps end-to-end: its strategy, roadmap, PRDs, experiments, releases and profit outcome.
• Player-coach of the whole product team: You lead the DRIs of the other squads, own product craft and the quality of PRDs across all of them.

This is a product leadership role first. You own where the games go: the strategy, the roadmap and the bets that grow them.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in mobile games or mobile product, including senior product leadership.
• A proven record of growing casual mobile games.
• Deep understanding of how casual games grow: core loop, meta, LiveOps, economy, and how ad and IAP monetization interact with the player experience.
• Strong product craft: roadmaps, PRDs, prioritization, experimentation and metric-driven decisions.
• Experience leading teams that include engineers.
• AI-native, not AI-curious.
• Leadership by proximity: you have led small, high-performing teams.

Requirements

• Founded or co-founded a mobile gaming studio.
• Scaled an ad-monetized casual game from early traction to meaningful portfolio revenue.
• Experience with word, card, solitaire or puzzle games.
• Built prototypes or internal tools yourself with AI.
• Familiarity with Firebase, GameAnalytics or Amplitude.

Benefits

• Ownership without guardrails: you set the product direction.
• Real products, real traction: live, growing games with real users and real data.
• AI-first environment: AI is at the core of how we build, test and iterate.
• Lean, high-trust team: small team, fast decisions, high impact per person.
• Competitive compensation: competitive salary, performance-based bonuses and clear growth opportunities.