The posting
Get excited to join Scopely’s AI-native incubation team, which is focused on discovering the next generation of mobile games. This role can be remote in the US or hybrid in Culver City, LA.
Rather than spending years developing a single title, we believe one of the most effective ways to find great games is to rapidly transform ideas into playable experiences, launch them to real players, and learn from live market feedback.
We’re pioneering a new approach to game creation—one in which AI enables creators to work across traditional discipline boundaries, take greater ownership of ideas from concept through launch, and bring more great games to players.
What You’ll Do
If you’re a Senior Product leader who is excited by rapid experimentation, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, and loves bringing new ideas to life, you’ll feel at home on this team.
We don’t organize our work strictly around traditional disciplines. We believe AI enables skilled creators to contribute to more of the game development process than ever before. As a Director or Senior Director of Product, you’ll combine strong product judgment with hands-on prototype and game development. You’ll help determine which opportunities Horton should explore, define how we evaluate progress, and work directly with cross-functional teammates to turn promising ideas into playable prototypes and games.
- Lead market and opportunity research to identify promising genres, themes, audiences, and product spaces for Horton to explore.
- Evaluate competitive products, player needs, market signals, and emerging opportunities, then turn that research into clear recommendations about what Horton should build and why.
- Own the design and evolution of Horton’s game and product evaluation pipeline, defining the stage gates, KPI, benchmarks, decision criteria, and evidence needed to determine whether an idea should be refined, expanded, or stopped.
- Partner with analytics, user acquisition, and other stakeholders to define the instrumentation, tests, and benchmarks needed to connect early player interest with product performance.
- Partner with designers, engineers, artists, and other product leaders to shape product hypotheses, core loops, player experiences, creative direction, and testing plans.
- Work hands-on in prototype and game development, using AI-native workflows, modern game engines, and development tools to turn product hypotheses and market opportunities into playable prototypes and games.
- Use AI to accelerate product discovery, game design, prototyping, art and content creation, research, analysis, testing, and production.
- Launch prototypes to real players, analyze qualitative and quantitative feedback and product data, and use those insights to guide future iterations and investment decisions.
- Balance speed and quality by making thoughtful trade-offs that maximize learning and help the team move with confidence.
- Develop repeatable product practices, evaluation tools, and decision-making frameworks that can scale across Horton and Scopely.
- Continuously challenge traditional product and game development workflows, and identify opportunities where AI can fundamentally improve how games are explored and made.
What We’re Looking For
- Director-level product leadership experience, with a track record shaping or evaluating mobile games or other consumer-facing digital products. Mobile game experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong product instincts and the ability to recognize compelling player experiences, differentiated opportunities, and concepts worth testing.
- Experience designing or operating product evaluation frameworks, experimentation programs, stage gates, KPI, benchmarks, or other structured decision-making systems.
- Strong market and competitive research skills, with the ability to synthesize incomplete or ambiguous information into clear recommendations.
- Demonstrated experience using AI as a meaningful part of your creative, product, or development workflow—not simply an interest in emerging technology.
- Comfort with hands-on prototype and game development, including the ability to work directly with modern AI tools, game engines, development tools, and agentic workflows. You do not need to be the primary engineer or artist, but you should be able to participate meaningfully in turning ideas into playable experiences.
- A bias toward building, testing, and learning rather than relying on lengthy planning cycles.
- Comfort with ambiguity, rapid iteration, changing direction, and making decisions before every answer is known.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset, with the ability to align multidisciplinary teams around clear product goals and decisions.
- Passion for games and a strong interest in how AI will change the way games and products are created.
Bonus Points
- Experience developing or evaluating casual, hyper-casual, mobile, free-to-play, or live-service games.
- Experience with user acquisition creative, playable ads, concept testing, or other forms of early product validation.
- Experience launching multiple products, prototypes, or experiments and using market feedback to guide investment.
- Fluency with game analytics, retention, engagement, monetization, and other measures of product performance.
- Experience working in small, highly autonomous teams or startup environments.
For candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for equity, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid Scopely free days, and unlimited paid time off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range
$223,000—$281,400 USD
About Scopely
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
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