Product Director (Hybrid Casual)

This role is based within our studio, Belka Games

Belka Games is a game development company ranked by Sensor Tower among the top 30 highest-grossing game developers in Europe. Our games have reached more than 110 million players worldwide

Role Overview

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

Required Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 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

Working at Tripledot

• Hybrid Working
• 25 days paid holiday in addition to bank holidays to relax and refresh throughout the year
• 20 days remote working: Work from anywhere in the world, or use the time to cover mandatory office days to WFH, 20 days of the year
• Regular company events and rewards: Join in regular events and rewards that celebrate cultural events, our achievements and our  team spirit
• Private Medical Cover: Have peace of mind with private medical cover, ensuring your health is in good hands
• Life & Critical Illness Cover: Protect your future with our life and critical illness cover.
• Family Forming Support: Receive vital support on your family forming/ fertility journey with our support program [subject to policy]
• Employee Assistance Program: Access confidential support anytime through our Employee Assistance Program
• Sport Compensation: Stay fit and active with our sport compensation benefit
• Meal and Transport Vouchers: Save on meals and transport with our convenient vouchers
• English & Spanish Classes: Enhance your English and Spanish skills with our provided language classes
• Continuous Professional Development: Propel your career with continuous opportunities for professional development