About Us
Customer is launching a small LATAM‑based game revival studio focused on bringing mature casual mobile games back to life. The initial portfolio may include word, puzzle/jigsort, jigsaw, solitaire, and other evergreen genres. The studio will own its product strategy, roadmap, team, and release cadence, while leveraging the customer’s user acquisition (UA), AdOps, analytics, publishing, and product expertise where this creates leverage.
Goal: build a focused LATAM team, ideally connected to Argentina/Buenos Aires, to audit, update, relaunch, localize, operate, and grow selected games as standalone products.
The role
Role purpose: Build and run a small LATAM‑based team to revive mature casual games and deliver clear business results across retention, monetization, and growth. Make fast, data‑driven scale/continue/stop decisions.
Work setup: Remote in LATAM (strong preference for Buenos Aires/Argentina), Full‑time
Responsibilities:
- Product and solution design
- Lead diagnostics across candidate titles and recommend which game to revive first
- Own product strategy, revival plans, roadmaps, and success criteria per title
- Prioritize fast, high‑impact iterations over large, unfocused redesigns
- Architecture/engineering
- Set operating model for the team: release cadence, quality gates, store readiness
- Oversee technical health with engineering: SDKs, crash/perf, build/release, compliance
- Ensure smooth integrations with ads, analytics, attribution, and backend services
- Data/analytics/automation
- Define KPIs and dashboards; run weekly reviews and experiment readouts
- Design and execute tests to improve FTUE, retention, engagement, monetization, LiveOps, and UA readiness
- Make ship/scale/stop/sunset calls using data and product judgment
- Stakeholder management
- Hire, onboard, and lead the initial team (design/LiveOps, engineering, QA/release, art/content as needed)
- Coordinate with centralized UA, AdOps, analytics, and infrastructure while keeping product ownership inside the revival team
- Communicate plans, risks, and results clearly to executives and partners
- Process and improvement
- Establish the team rhythm: planning, KPI reviews, release planning, retros
- Build practical LiveOps: content calendar, events, offers, seasonal updates, player comms
- Create lean documentation, playbooks, and mentoring for new team members
Requirements:
- Experience: 5+ years in mobile games product management, live operations, production, or studio/portfolio leadership
- Skills: F2P casual expertise; LiveOps and monetization (IAP + ads); UA fundamentals; cohort analysis; A/B testing; roadmap ownership; team leadership and hiring
- Architecture and integrations: comfortable overseeing Unity titles, SDK integrations, store submissions, ad mediation, analytics/event design, and backend/service integrations
- Data and quality: strong grasp of retention, ARPDAU, LTV, ROAS; ability to define metrics, write simple SQL or guide analysts; testing and release quality practices
- Communication: clear decision‑making style; ability to align execs and cross‑functional partners; fluent English
As a plus:
- Domain knowledge: word, puzzle/jigsort, jigsaw, solitaire, hidden object, match‑3
- Practices: segmentation and personalization, offer design, economy tuning, subscription models, ad waterfall optimization, creative testing
- Additional tools/certifications: experience with LATAM markets; Spanish and/or Portuguese; prior hiring/leadership in LATAM; strong network in Argentina/Buenos Aires
What we offer:
- High impact on product and studio direction; real ownership
- Build a new team from the ground up with support from central UA/AdOps/analytics
- Flexible schedule; remote in LATAM
Hiring process Recruiter screening – Team/stakeholder interviews – Practical assessment – Final interview and offer
Apply by filling in the contact form below or sending your CV to job@ximxim.com