Product Manager - Engineering

The role is working within our studio: Lion Studios

Lion Studios is a mobile games publisher that works with mobile developers to get their games discovered by players around the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lion Studios’ creative and strategy teams utilize their expertise to help game developers break through the noise and grow their businesses. 

Since launching in 2018, Lion Studios has driven 90% of its games to the Top 10 in the App Store and Google Play and helped drive 16 games to #1 in the US App Store’s Top Free chart.

Role Overview

The Engineering Product Manager serves as the bridge between Engineering and Game Product teams. This role partners closely with engineering leads and game product managers to understand business and technical needs, gather requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and develop roadmaps for internal engineering initiatives. The ideal candidate is technically proficient enough to communicate effectively with engineers while translating technical work into clear business value for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leads and game product managers to gather requirements, identify opportunities, evaluate tradeoffs, and support roadmap planning for engineering initiatives.
• Own and maintain the backlog for internal engineering products and platforms.
• Facilitate communication between Engineering, Game Product, QA, Analytics, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment throughout the product lifecycle.
• Translate business and technical needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and functional specifications.
• Coordinate feature development, project timelines, releases, and stakeholder communications.
• Provide recommendations on priorities based on business value, engineering effort, and stakeholder feedback.
• Define success metrics and monitor product performance to drive continuous improvements.
• Establish and maintain standards for product requirements, documentation, release notes, and user guides to ensure consistency across engineering initiatives.
• Facilitate roadmap reviews, planning sessions, and cross-functional meetings.
• Identify opportunities to improve internal tools, workflows, and engineering processes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Product Management experience, preferably supporting technical products or engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and modern software development practices.
• Comfortable discussing technical concepts including Unity, JavaScript, APIs, backend services, cloud infrastructure, mobile applications, and game development.
• Ability to understand technical tradeoffs and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and project management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience writing product requirements and maintaining product documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the mobile gaming industry.
• Experience with internal developer tools, SDKs, LiveOps, analytics platforms, or backend systems.
• Familiarity with AWS, SQL, REST APIs, or similar technologies.
• Previous technical experience is a plus but not required.

Working at Tripledot

• 25 days paid holiday in addition to bank holidays to relax and refresh throughout the year

• Hybrid Working

• 20 days remote working: Work from anywhere in the world, or use the time to cover mandatory office days to WFH, 20 days of the year.

• Daily Free Lunch: when in the office you get £12 every day to order from JustEat. 

• Regular company events and rewards: quarterly on-site and off-site events that celebrate cultural events, our achievements and our team spirit. 

• Employee Assistance Program: Anytime you need it, tap into confidential, caring support with our Employee Assistance Program, always here to lend an ear and a helping hand.

• Family Forming Support: Receive vital support on your family forming/ fertility journey with our support program [subject to policy]

• Life Assurance & Group Income Cover: Financial protection for you and your loved ones.

• Continuous Professional Development: Propel your career with continuous opportunities for professional development.

• Private Medical Cover & Health Cash Plan: Opt-in (P11d benefit) comprehensive private medical cover with Bupa and cash plan with Medicash.

• Dental Cover: Opt-in (P11d benefit). 

• Cycle to Work Scheme: Salary sacrifice bike purchase scheme.

• Pension Plan: Qualifying earnings or opt-in 4% contributory match schemes offered.