Product Lead – Live Strategy Games (m/f/d)

Description

Product Lead – Live Strategy Games (m/f/d) 📍 Hamburg (remote) | Full-time We are looking for a Senior Product Manager / Product Lead to own the product vision and roadmap for Goodgame Empire and Empire: Four Kingdoms - two of Europe's most established strategy games with over 200 million players and more than 1 billion € in lifetime revenue. These are live service products with active player bases, real revenue, and decisions that matter immediately. We need someone who can hold the vision, read the numbers, and make the hard calls on what the product should be - then drive a cross-functional team to get there. If you are a senior product manager looking for a role with real ownership and long-term ambition, this role is for you. YOUR MISSION - Own the product roadmap for both Empire titles: set priorities, communicate rationale, and ensure strategy translates into shipped results - Be the final product voice on feature scope, economy design, and Live Ops direction - Lead and develop a multi-functional product team covering Game Design, Live Ops, and CRM WHAT YOU WILL DO - Develop a thorough understanding of both Empire titles and their competitive landscape; play the games, know the competitors, and bring that perspective into product decisions - Translate strategy into a clear, outcome-driven roadmap; define requirements, success metrics, and the briefs that enable efficient execution - Approve concepts from Design, Live Ops, and CRM; make sure offers, campaigns, and sales calendars serve the roadmap and business targets - Maintain deep KPI fluency; spot opportunities and risks across the full product funnel, from acquisition to late-game engagement - Drive AI adoption across the product and design team; identify tools and workflows that raise output quality and speed - Lead and develop your team with disciplinary ownership and honest, development-focused feedback YOUR PROFILE - Proven track record in product management for live F2P games - Strong product sense with deep F2P monetization knowledge: you understand what drives player behaviour, can diagnose economy health, design offers, and reason about revenue levers directly - Experience with Live Ops and CRM as product levers, not just operational tasks; comfortable navigating data without depending on analysts for every answer - Decisive, aligned, and ownership-driven: you build buy-in without needing consensus, make calls at pace, and treat impact as your personal responsibility - Clear, direct communicator; you write crisp requirements and translate complex tradeoffs into simple choices for others - Genuine interest in developing the people around you; you invest in your team and give honest feedback - Deep conviction that AI is a force multiplier, not a nice-to-have; you use tools hands-on every day and actively push for meaningful adoption in the team WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS Product is the core of what the Empire Family does - and this is the role that connects long-term strategy to what ships every week. You report directly to the Product Director, have real decision authority from day one, and work inside the product rather than alongside it. The Empire Family is in an active development phase with meaningful long-term projects on the horizon: a platform transition, a new continent launching in 2027, and a serious bid for renewed growth. There is real work here, and the scope to do it pro