Product Director (Hybrid Casual)

About the role

Leaders set direction and build the conditions for their teams to succeed. They hire, coach, and hold people accountable. Leadership work spans strategy, communication, and decision making. Effective leaders give clear context and remove obstacles for the people who report to them. Leadership roles are measured by team outcomes, retention, and delivery. Most organizations expect leaders to be visible, predictable, and generous with context.

Key facts

What you'll do

Launch, scaling, transformation, or termination decisions for product initiatives are made and executed.

Senior product leaders are hired and developed, and autonomous, scalable teams are built. The Hybrid Casual direction is implemented through a defined and executed R&D strategy.

Requirements

Senior product leadership experience in the games industry as a Product Director, Head of Product, Executive Producer, or in a comparable role is required. Live mobile F2P games experience is required, ideally within Hybrid Casual or adjacent Casual genres. Product strategy must be defined and implemented.

Management of a portfolio of live products and new product initiatives across the full product lifecycle is required. Business performance ownership and investment and resource allocation across a product portfolio are required. A deep understanding of F2P monetization, LiveOps, product economies, progression systems, and mobile games market dynamics is required, with proven experience improving retention, engagement, monetization, revenue, profitability, and long-term product health.

Strong analytical and business skills are required, including experience building business cases and making data-informed product and investment decisions. Building autonomous cross-functional teams and hiring and developing senior Product Managers, Game Producers, or other product leaders is required. Clear decision-making in uncertain conditions and ownership of business consequences are required. Fluency in English and Russian is required.

Nice to have

Hybrid Casual experience and a track record of growing sustainable live portfolios are preferred.

Practical notes

The role is based in Minsk within the Belka Games studio. The position follows a Hybrid Working model with 20 business days of remote work and 20 business days of office presence. Lunch is provided daily in the office. Continuous Professional Development and Private Medical Cover are included. A Sport Compensation benefit and Taxi compensation for travel to the office are provided. English Classes are provided to enhance language skills. Typical interview steps

Leadership hiring usually includes a strategy case, a people scenario, and a values conversation. Candidates may be asked to turn around a struggling team or plan for growth. Past results are examined closely, especially how decisions were made. Interviewers dig into specific decisions you made and their consequences. Preparing two or three decision stories with numbers and lessons is the best use of time.

Good to know

The role operates within a multi-award-winning mobile games company with studios across multiple countries. The company focuses on live service games for a global audience. Data-driven decision-making and cross-functional collaboration are central to product workflows. The role uses analytics tools, LiveOps practices, and business case development methods. Professional growth and continuous learning are emphasized within the team structure.

Questions to ask

Useful questions for the interview: what a typical week looks like, how work is assigned, what tools the team uses, and how feedback works. Asking how the role has changed recently and what the team wishes it had known when joining is also reasonable. Questions about the manager's priorities are especially valued.

Career growth

Leadership careers move from manager to senior manager, director, and executive roles. Each step adds more scope and more responsibility for outcomes. The best leaders keep learning how to delegate, communicate, and decide. Leadership careers reward a record of building and developing people. The higher you go, the more your communication shapes the whole organization.