Sago Mini is an award-winning company devoted to play. With three subscription services and over 10 million monthly active users, Sago Mini creates apps that seed imagination, grow wonder, and bring thoughtful design to life for preschoolers and parents worldwide. Proudly Canadian, Sago Mini is a subsidiary of Spin Master, a leading global children’s entertainment company. Along with sister studios Toca Boca and Originator, Sago Mini is part of the Piknik bundle – a collection of the world’s best apps for kids in one subscription.
What will you work on?
As the Senior Technical Product Owner for Tools & Scalability at Sago Sago Toys Inc., you will operationalize the technical vision for the Piknik subscription platform. You will own the Platform-as-a-Product foundation—including internal tools, release pipelines, and our shared SDK (Unity/C#). Your focus is building the scalable infrastructure and developer-experience workflows that allow multiple app teams to deploy high-quality content quickly and safely.
How will you create impact?
- Drive the Tools & Scalability product roadmap, making pragmatic decisions on when to build new tools, pay down technical debt, or expand the core SDK.
- Provide conversion, retention, and integration squads with the reliable infrastructure and backend workflows needed to ship features.
- Coordinate complex, platform-wide architectural refactors, mitigating risk and minimizing integration disruption for downstream game studios.
- Manage the daily sprint rhythm, roadmap prioritization, and backlog grooming for developer, UX, and QA team members.
- Identify and eliminate integration friction to champion an optimal developer experience across internal and external app teams.
- Translate complex technical architecture into business outcomes, and business goals into clear technical constraints for the engineering team.
What are your skills and experience?
- Proven track record of technical product ownership or product leadership for mobile apps, SDKs, or internal developer platforms.
- Strong technical foundation with the ability to actively contribute to architectural discussions, evaluate technical debt, and define system constraints.
- Familiarity with the Unity engine and C# development environments.
- Deep understanding of the mobile app ecosystem, including App Store and Google Play console management, in-app purchases (IAPs), subscription infrastructure, and mobile release trains.
- Strong expertise managing shared SDKs, APIs, or developer tools with a focus on seamless integration.
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical technical experience.
The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in Ontario is $115,000 to $145,000 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.
About the Process
- Once you apply, you'll receive an email confirming that we've received your application. After we've had a chance to review your application (1-2 weeks), we'll reach out to let you know what the next steps are.
- If you are moving ahead, your first interview will be a 30 min interview where we'll learn more about you and answer any questions you have about the role.
- Next, a 45min technical phone interview with live coding challenges and technical Q&A will happen to assess your tech skills.
- Final Round (2 Parts):
- Part 1: Technical Session (60 min): You’ll team up with members of our Web Platform team to collaborate on a few new coding challenges.
- Part 2: Cross-Functional Chat (45 min): A casual chat with a cross-functional group to discuss your past experience and see how you like to work.
We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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Based in Toronto, Sago Sago Toys is a subsidiary of Spin Master Limited a leading global children’s entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties. We hire humble and collaborative people who care about doing great work. Sago Mini is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company.
Skills Required
- Proven track record of technical product ownership or product leadership for mobile apps, SDKs, or internal developer platforms.
- Strong technical foundation to contribute to architecture discussions, evaluate technical debt, and define system constraints.
- Familiarity with the Unity engine and C# development environments.
- Deep understanding of the mobile app ecosystem, including App Store and Google Play console management, in-app purchases (IAPs), subscription infrastructure, and mobile release trains.
- Strong expertise managing shared SDKs, APIs, or developer tools with focus on seamless integration.
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical technical experience.
- Experience coordinating complex, platform-wide architectural refactors and mitigating downstream integration risk.
- Experience owning release pipelines and developer-experience workflows for multi-team mobile platforms.
What We Do
Sago Mini is an award-winning company devoted to learning through play. Thoughtfully designed to spark imagination and curiosity, Sago Mini makes apps, toys and play experiences for preschoolers worldwide. For kids. For parents. For giggles.
