Principal Product Manager
Hutch
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Vision & Strategy: Set the overarching Live Ops & Economy roadmap, aligning seasonal beats with long-term commercial goals and sustainable growth.
- Economy & Pricing Governance: Take full ownership of in-game balance, currency sinks, and pricing architecture to maximize LTV and player sentiment.
- Annual Season Change Ownership: Lead the high-stakes Annual Season & Economy Reset—defining the strategy for major meta shifts and economy refreshes that define the game's yearly cycle.
- Optimization & Scale: Drive the A/B testing framework and define the technical tool requirements needed to build an elite, automated team workflow.
- Content & Campaign Delivery: Gets hands on and support the Design team, CRM Manager, and Associate PM in the end-to-end execution of events, offers, CRM, and Webstore operations.
- Operational Excellence: Orchestrate seamless live ops, ensuring total economy stability and high-impact content refreshes.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Mentor and develop the Associate PM, fostering a culture of accuracy, creative problem solving and data-led decision-making.
- Shared Operations: Partner with the Product Director & other PMs to oversee Releases, Game Health, UA, Forecasting, and Small Feature support.
Requirements
- Proven Senior Experience: An extensive track record operating as a Senior, Lead, or Principal Product Manager on top-grossing free-to-play mobile games.
- Economy & Systems Mastery: Deep expertise in designing, balancing, and governing complex game economies, pricing architectures, and macro-level game systems.
- Market Authority: Deep, authoritative knowledge of the free-to-play games market, best practices from top-performing games, and a thorough understanding of their success drivers.
- Advanced Analytical Ability: Highly scientific approach to data; experience defining A/B testing frameworks, forecasting performance, running complex live ops, and investigating high-level game performance issues.
- Ownership & Drive: A strong ownership mentality with a "get it done" attitude, capable of balancing immediate operational needs with long-term strategic goals.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Experience mentoring and developing junior product managers or cross-functional team members.
- Exceptional Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage senior stakeholders, present clear strategies, and rally a team around a shared vision.
- Bonus Points
- Experience leading big meta shifts, sequel transitions, or yearly economy resets in a live game.
- Experience working with gacha-led and/or midcore games.
- Advanced experience with dashboarding and analytics tools (e.g., SQL, Amplitude, Tableau).
- Experience overseeing CRM strategies using tools like Braze, Leanplum, etc.
- A passion for Cars or Motorsports, especially F1Ⓡ!
- Experience working specifically within the Racing Games genre.
Benefits
- Remote working 2 days per week (Tues & Thurs in the studio)
- Excellent salary
- Private health care
- Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
- Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
- Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
- Free snacks and drinks
- Social events, game launch parties, Team days and much more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
A/B testinggame economy designpricing architecturedata analysisforecastinglive operations managementgame performance investigationCRM strategy oversightdashboardinganalytics
Soft Skills
leadershipmentorshipcommunicationproblem solvingownership mentalitystrategic thinkingteam collaborationdata-led decision-makingcreativitystakeholder management