Position
Head of Product
Company
Values Value
Company website
https://valuesvalue.com
Seniority
Senior
Employment Type
Full time
Salary
Negotiable
Location
Relocate, Barcelona
Values Value is a recruiting company with expertise in game development and is currently looking for a Head of Product to run an in-house game studio/squad within the gaming business unit of a global ad-tech group. Founded in 2018, the unit builds and scales a portfolio of casual evergreen mobile games – cards, words, puzzles, board games. It benefits from being part of a larger ad-tech company with its own ad network, proprietary data and personalized monetization infrastructure. The unit is rebuilding itself as an AI-native organization, instead of departments and management layers, work is organized around small squads, each running like a small studio that owns its games end to end. You will run an internal product studio – a squad that owns 1–3 titles end to end, and as Product Coach you will set the product standards every squad in the unit works to.
What are you working on?
•Genres: Puzzle, Word Games, Card and/or Board
•Platforms: Mobile
For which tasks (responsibilities)?
•Own the eProfit of your squad's games end to end: product, LiveOps, UA and monetization decisions, with retention, ARPU, CPI and eROAS as leading indicators
•Shape your studio: propose the targets you are ready to commit to and the team you need to hit them (product, marketing, other skills), staffed from within the unit or through new hires; make the input-vs-output trade-off explicit
•Write the PRDs, hypotheses and experiment plans for the highest-stakes bets yourself, and stay in the data daily
•Build the strategy and plan for scaling your studio
•Use AI as the squad's operating layer: agents for research, QA, release and analytics, pulling data and models from the shared intelligence layer
•Run the squad scorecard (lagging + leading indicators); when it goes off track, own the recovery plan
As Product Coach – you set the product standards for the whole gaming unit:
•Set and maintain the standards every squad works to: PRD quality, hypothesis and experiment design, experiment qualification, release evaluation, how product metrics are read
•Make product expertise accessible to other product managers or other directly responsible individuals: a set share of your time for office hours, experiment reviews, playbooks and worked examples from your own studio, so that what works in your studio spreads across the unit
•Lead by example: your studio is the reference implementation of the standards
What kind of professional are we looking for?
•7+ years in a senior product or product-engineering leadership role in mobile gaming — specifically ad-monetized casual evergreen titles (cards, words, puzzles, board games, simple casual)
•Genuinely hands-on: you write PRDs, live in the data and build things yourself with AI
•AI-native: concrete examples of AI tools accelerating your output that made it to production
•Leadership by proximity: you've led small, high-performance teams in a fast-moving environment and grow people by working alongside them
•Deep understanding of ad-monetization and UA economics: eCPM, ARPU/ARPDAU, retention curves, LTV, CPI, eROAS
•Fluent English (at least Upper-Intermediate)
Strong signals
•You founded or co-founded a mobile gaming studio
•You've directly scaled an ad-monetized casual game from early traction to meaningful portfolio revenue
•You've built internal tooling, automation pipelines or SDK integrations alongside product work
What is important for us in a person?
•End-to-end ownership with judgment – reasons from first principles, decides fast and stands behind the call
•Competence and care – deep domain knowledge and genuine care about the outcome you own
•Resilience – keeps coming back after setbacks; the environment moves fast
•Executional excellence – sets the long-term picture, breaks it into stages and holds the team accountable for delivery
•Influence without authority – moves standards across other squads through expertise and example
Why do we enjoy working here?
•Real end-to-end ownership: your squad, your games, your P&L – with a clear path to more scope as you deliver
•A company-wide voice on how product is done, not just in your own studio
•A chance to help shape an AI-native operating model that is deliberately ahead of where most of the industry works today
•Part of a larger ad-tech group – access to a proprietary ad network, data and personalized monetization infrastructure as a built-in edge
•A small, senior, high-ownership team with no unnecessary management layers
•A culture built around data-driven decisions, ownership, continuous improvement and a lean-startup mentality
What are the conditions and bonuses?
•Hybrid role in Barcelona, 4 days/week in the office
•Full-time staff position, fully official employment in Spain
•Relocation to Barcelona, with a relocation package for the candidate and family
•Medical insurance, meals and beverages at the office, gym and language courses
•Paid vacation and sick leave
•6-month probation period
•Stock options in the gaming unit
The selection process
•Screening with the Values Value recruiter
•Interview with the General Manager of the Gaming unit
•Interview with a board member / co-founder
•Test task (optional)
•Offer
