Jobs at PAPAYA (papaya.com)

Develop and own scalable, performant Unity game features from conception through production. Collaborate with backend, technical art, QA, art, product, data, and other engineering teams. Maintain and optimize existing code, conduct code reviews, improve development processes, contribute to Unity knowledge sharing, and potentially mentor other engineers.

Design, build, and operate high-scale backend systems supporting millions of users. Own features end to end, from requirements and architecture through production monitoring, debugging, and measurement. Collaborate with Unity client developers, Product, and BI teams to deliver A/B-tested gaming features. Improve scalability, performance, and cost efficiency while managing high API volumes and traffic spikes. Use AI coding agents in production and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools.

Own end-to-end production data science for growth, monetization, retention, and lifecycle optimization in a real-money mobile gaming platform. Build churn, LTV, propensity, uplift, survival, hazard, ranking, and recommendation models; integrate them with backend systems; optimize CRM communications, tournament and store suggestions, and deposit recovery; and measure business impact through experimentation and defensible causal analysis.

Leads Papaya’s Performance Marketing organization across user acquisition, retargeting, and growth for mobile games. Owns multi-million-dollar budgets, channel and market strategy, campaign optimization, experimentation, attribution, and performance metrics including ROAS, LTV, CAC, and retention. Builds and develops a multi-layered team, partners with Creative, Product, Data, BI, and Monetization, identifies new growth opportunities, manages advertising platforms and partners, and presents strategic recommendations to senior leadership.

Lead the visual vision and artistic direction across a mobile gaming portfolio. Oversee UI/UX, 2D art, LiveOps, marketing creatives, and brand identity while managing multidisciplinary teams, mentoring leaders, ensuring quality, partnering cross-functionally, and integrating Generative AI and automated workflows. Manage resources, software budgets, vendors, and delivery against business goals. The role requires strong hands-on design expertise, creative leadership, and an online portfolio.

Analyze large datasets to understand player behavior, optimize retention and game revenue, and recommend product improvements. Build dashboards and reports for business metrics, apply statistical methods and A/B testing, and collaborate with developers and product teams to implement features that improve user experience. The role requires strong SQL, analytical expertise, stakeholder communication, and familiarity with AI tools and Python-based analytics.

Support global financial operations by managing monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes; preparing consolidated US GAAP financial statements and management reports; coordinating audits; supporting global tax filings; overseeing intercompany reconciliations; improving financial workflows through tools and automation; and providing analytical insights to improve performance.

Develop and optimize Unity-based mobile games for iOS and Android. Responsibilities include writing clean code, implementing innovative features, optimizing performance across supported devices, and maintaining an excellent player experience at global scale. The role requires collaboration, strong communication, passion for games, and familiarity with asynchronous programming using await, async tasks, and UniTask.

Hands-on IT Manager owning corporate IT operations: identity (Okta) and Google Workspace administration, Jamf/MDM endpoint management, helpdesk leadership, SaaS and asset/license management, A/V and network systems, and building AI-enabled automations. Partners with Security, People, and Finance to manage access provisioning, endpoint security, compliance, documentation, and vendor/cost optimization.

Lead product strategy and execution for a mobile gaming platform, owning portfolio decisions, metrics (LTV, CAC, retention), and cross-functional delivery. Manage ~15 product, design, and game teams, partner with engineering, data, marketing and leadership to scale live-ops, monetization, personalization, payments, and platform infrastructure.