[Hiring] Product Director @Tripledot Studios

Role Description

We are looking for a Product Director to lead and strengthen our Hybrid Casual direction , combining ownership and development of existing live products with the creation, validation, and launch of new product initiatives. As part of the Belka Games leadership team, you will contribute to the company’s broader product strategy and long-term development.

The role includes responsibility for product strategy, business performance of the Hybrid Casual portfolio, including its revenue, profitability, long-term value, and investment efficiency. You will also build strong product teams and establish a systematic and repeatable approach to creating and scaling successful Hybrid Casual products.

Key Responsibilities

• Part 1 - Live product ownership
  • Define and implement the product strategy for the Hybrid Casual portfolio, ensuring sustainable growth and long-term product health.
  • Drive the business performance of the direction, including revenue growth, profitability, long-term portfolio value, and investment efficiency.
  • Drive improvements in retention, engagement, monetization, product quality, and other key product and business metrics.
  • Balance short-term performance priorities with long-term product investments and allocate resources across the portfolio accordingly.
  • Define product and LiveOps priorities based on data, business impact, investment efficiency, and growth potential.
  • Make decisions on the launch, scaling, transformation, or termination of product initiatives.
  • Ensure reliable execution of product updates and scale successful features, mechanics, and practices across live products.
  • Build transparent cross-functional decision-making processes and align Product, Development, Analytics, Marketing, and other business functions around shared goals and priorities.
  • Partner with the Belka Games leadership team on the company’s product strategy and long-term development.
  • Hire and develop senior product leaders, build autonomous and scalable teams.
• Part 2 - RnD
  • Define and implement the R&D strategy for the Hybrid Casual direction.
  • Identify new product opportunities, segments, and mechanics, and manage a pipeline of hypotheses, experiments, prototypes, and product initiatives.
  • Apply a data-informed and hypothesis-driven approach to identifying, prioritizing, and validating new product opportunities.
  • Own the development of new product concepts from ideation and prototyping through validation, soft launch, global launch, and scaling.
  • Define success criteria and evaluate initiatives against relevant product, market, and business benchmarks.
  • Develop business cases for new product investments, including the opportunity, expected business impact, required resources, and key risks.
  • Make investment decisions on the further development, scaling, transformation, or termination of product initiatives.
  • Establish clear validation stages, decision criteria, and investment gates to improve the predictability and efficiency of R&D outcomes.
  • Systematize learnings from experiments and launches, scale effective practices across initiatives, and eliminate consistently ineffective approaches.

Qualifications

• Senior product leadership experience in the games industry as a Product Director, Head of Product, Executive Producer, or in a comparable role.
• Strong experience with live mobile F2P games, ideally within Hybrid Casual or adjacent Casual genres.
• Proven experience defining and implementing product strategy.
• Experience managing a portfolio of live products and new product initiatives across the full product lifecycle.
• Experience owning business performance and allocating investment and resources across a product portfolio.
• Deep understanding of F2P monetization, LiveOps, product economies, progression systems, and mobile games market dynamics, with proven experience improving retention, engagement, monetization, revenue, profitability, and long-term product health.
• Strong analytical and business skills, including experience building business cases and making data-informed product and investment decisions.
• Experience building autonomous cross-functional teams and hiring and developing senior Product Managers, Game Producers, or other product leaders.
• Excellent leadership, communication, cross-functional management, and stakeholder alignment skills.
• Ability to make clear decisions in uncertain conditions and take ownership of their business consequences.
• Fluent in English and Russian.

What Success Looks Like

• A strong and scalable Hybrid Casual portfolio with sustainable product and business performance.
• Growth in the key product and business metrics of live products.
• Strong, autonomous product teams led by capable product leaders.
• A predictable and repeatable approach to creating, validating, and scaling new products.
• A continuous pipeline of high-potential R&D initiatives.
• Increased maturity and effectiveness of the product function across the company.

Benefits

• Fully remote.
• Enjoy 20 business days of paid holiday.
• Work in an environment where strong opinions are welcomed, ideas are challenged constructively, and product decisions are based on metrics and insights.
• Grow your expertise through professional development opportunities within the company’s learning budget.
• Receive compensation for private medical insurance.
• Stay fit and active with partial reimbursement for your gym membership.