Product Manager – Roadmap Track (Sunshine Island)

New Moon Production • Remote, OR

3d • Remote

About The Position

As Product Manager for the Roadmap Track, you will own long-term features, core game loops, and retention systems for Sunshine Island, a flagship casual farming title. The product team has two execution tracks: Strategic Roadmap, focused on deep features and long-term systems, and LiveOps, focused on recurring events, monetization, and direct-to-consumer growth. You will lead the Roadmap Track in a close partnership with a dedicated Project Manager (PJM), who manages day-to-day agile mechanics and operational scheduling, allowing you to focus on product direction, new mechanics, and impact. You will work with a feature team of engineers, designers, economy designers, artists, and data analysts to bring new mechanics to a mature game.

The role centers on roadmap and feature ownership, market-informed development of new mechanics, retention and early-game performance, progression and content pacing, and ownership of roadmap KPIs. You will partner with the PJM on sprint scoping and release scheduling, act as the central product anchor for the feature team, and drive multi-phase features from goals through release, defining scope and learnings for each phase. You report to the Director of LiveOps and work day to day with the game's Product Owner.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of experience as a Product Manager or Game PM in mobile free-to-play gaming.
• Demonstrated experience running a live game and working with roadmaps, including prioritizing, sequencing, and delivering large features and weighing trade-offs.
• Play and analyze games in the genre, understand what works, and translate market insight into ideas for new mechanics.
• Comfort with retention and monetization metrics, including D7, ARPDAU, LTV, and churn.
• Understanding of player engagement over time, including progression, onboarding, long-term retention systems, and the interaction of economy and content pacing.
• Ability to align and inspire cross-functional Art, Tech, Design, and Analytics teams through clear commercial reasoning, without relying on direct line management.
• Highly organized, calm under live operational pressure, and accustomed to working alongside PJMs in SCRUM/Kanban frameworks.
• Located within +/- 3 hours of CEST for real-time collaboration.
• Comfortable using AI tools in daily work or keen to learn; the company uses AI across production and expects employees to try it.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in casual, farming, simulation, or city-builder games is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the Roadmap Track backlog and quarterly plan.
• Maintain existing features and systems, including progression, content updates, guilds, and tournaments, and prioritize and sequence larger releases to move KPIs.
• Play and analyze games in the genre, identify what works, and develop ideas for new mechanics, bringing evidence and KPI goals to the team while game designers own detailed feature design.
• Own first-session and early-game retention, including FTUE, unlock pacing, and onboarding, and improve the path from new player to veteran with analysts using cohorts and A/B tests.
• Shape progression and content cadence with economy designers, including content waves, level caps, and progression speed.
• Own roadmap KPIs, including D7 and early retention, veteran DAU and ARPDAU of high-level players, and progression speed.
• Define success metrics in advance and review A/B tests and cohorts with data analysts.
• Partner with the track PJM on sprint scoping and release scheduling, and serve as the central product anchor for the feature team.
• Drive multi-phase features from goal to release, with clear scope and learnings for each phase.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Personal development budget.
• Flexible working conditions.
• Direct ownership of product direction and long-term growth of a high-scale mobile title generating millions in revenue.
• A complete feature team and close partnership with a dedicated PJM who handles operational overhead.
• A mature, remote-first studio culture that values autonomy, data-driven decisions, and sustainable execution.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed