We're looking for an enthusiastic Lead Product Manager to join the flock working on Angry Birds Friends. This is a key role where you'll own the core product direction and be fully accountable for the game’s player experience, long-term health, and business performance. You'll guide the strategy for features, economy, progression, and balance, while leading and coaching another team member who handles LiveOps and commercial optimization. We're excited to have you join us and help us craft joy for millions of players.
You will have impact and fun at work by:
- Own the core product vision and strategy for Angry Birds Friends, ensuring the game’s features, economy, and progression bring joy and meet our long-term business goals.
- Work hands-on to shape the game, using player behavior insights and deep market understanding to find out new opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate closely with diverse teams—including design, engineering, art, and analytics—to define, validate, and deliver impactful product improvements that feel amazing to play.
- Oversee the health of the game’s economy, progression systems, balance, and difficulty, making key tuning decisions and structural changes to support long-term success in a live environment.
- Translate our product direction into clear priorities and success metrics, maintaining a high bar for execution quality and aligning the cross-functional teams.
Experience and skills we are looking for:
- You have significant and extensive experience as a product manager working on multiple live Free-to-Play (F2P) mobile titles.
- You’ve demonstrated success improving player and business metrics through smart product decisions, iterative development, and effective experimentation.
- You possess superior interpersonal and cooperative skills, making you a natural partner when working closely with cross-functional teams like game design, engineering, and commercial functions.
- You're an enthusiastic gamer who understands the full live game lifecycle, from post-launch iteration to operational cadence. You have proven experience in performance optimization after launch.
- You’re eager to understand the story behind the data and able to see the 'big picture,' understanding how daily research and product decisions fit into our wider vision.
Skills Required
- Significant experience as a product manager working on live Free-to-Play mobile titles
- Proven success in improving player and business metrics through product decisions
- Superior interpersonal and cooperative skills
- Experience in performance optimization after launch
- Eager to understand data and overall product vision
What We Do
Rovio Entertainment Ltd. is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has seven game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Barcelona (Spain), Montreal and Toronto (Canada), as well as a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. In 2023, Sega Europe Limited acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares, making Rovio a subsidiary of Sega
