Game Platform Product Owner

King is a world-wide leader in cross-platform, bite-sized games on mobile, Facebook and the web. King created Candy Crush Saga, one of the most popular and highest grossing mobile apps across the globe and Facebook?s #1 app. King currently has over 225 million monthly players generating over 30 billion gameplays per month across mobile , Facebook and the website www.king.com. Across all platforms, King now has more than 100 million daily players. King has experienced massive growth, opening three studios in 2012 and growing from under 200 employees to over 550 over the same period. The company offers more than 150 exclusive games in 14 languages through www.king.com, on mobile and tablets, Google+, and on Facebook.

Your role
- Develop, evolve and efficiently communicate the overall direction of the platform
- Interact with rest of the organisation to understand their client needs and how they can meet them
- Manage, prioritise and communicate the backlog for King's game client platform
- Contribute to the company-wide technology direction, ensuring that we continuously improve our ability to deliver innovate, high-quality games in a timely fashion
- Oversee internal and external dependencies as well as related risks
- Work closely with the development scrum teams to make sure we develop the right things
- Encourage adoption of the platform
- Understand, partake in and discuss key architecture and technical decision

Skills we we look for
- Experience working as product manager or product owner for complex technology
- Experience working with agile development teams and processes
- Technical background with several years as an accomplished developer
- Experience working with mobile games either in or leading a development team
- A great team player able to work effectively with people across different locations
- Excellent communicator and facilitator, both spoken, written and in presentation
- Comfortable interacting with everyone from developers and data scientists to executives
- Not afraid of being hands-on when necessary
- Able to work in a flexible and fluid environment where the job will evolve over time

- Passionate about games