Technical Product Director

Job description

You will be the strategic owner of Amanotes’ Platform & AI Transformation, leading the development of scalable internal platforms, personalization capabilities, AI-driven automation, and strong data foundations that help the company work smarter, move faster, and create greater business impact. In this role, you will translate company strategy into clear product direction, build strong technical product capabilities, and drive cross-functional alignment to deliver innovative solutions that improve productivity, user experience, and long-term growth. ### WHAT YOU WILL DO **1. Publishing & Operations Platform** *Build the analytics and operations platform that powers Amanotes' game and app business, targeting 3-5x productivity uplift across teams.* - UA, Creative, and Ads Ops automation systems with auto and smart bidding - Creative production support and management (from idea to result) - Holistic A/B testing system covering full lifecycle: ideation, hypothesis, conclusion, and report aggregation - Advanced product analytics with proactive anomaly detection and trend monitoring - App publishing flow, app store management, and compliance automation - Licensing management and standardized song analytics **2. Personalization** *Lead the development of personalization as Amanotes' next frontier capability, enabling games to adapt to each user's unique skill and preferences to maximize flow state and engagement.* - Dynamic difficulty adjustment: serving the right difficulty level to maximize user experience and progression - Song recommendation engine: recommending songs based on user behavior and preferences - Personalized monetization: optimizing ads/IAP formats and pricing to balance user experience and LTV - User understanding infrastructure: building unified user profiles across the game portfolio - Recommendation systems: evaluating build vs. buy decisions for ML models **3. AI Transformation** *Drive Amanotes' AI-first transformation across production and operations, building a hyper-automation platform with agentic AI capabilities.* **4. Data Infrastructure** *Own the foundational data infrastructure that enables all capability building, ensuring data quality, accessibility, and actionability.* - Robust data collection and cleaning pipelines with operation logs integration - Democratized data access: enabling anyone to explore data without dependency on DA team - Proactive monitoring systems with anomaly detection and predictive models - Product testing environment with sandboxed, isolated testing capabilities - Data governance and quality frameworks ensuring reliability for all downstream systems ### KEY EXPECTATION OF THE POSITION **1. Strategic Clarity & Coherence** - Define and maintain clear product roadmaps that directly connect to Amanotes' 2028 strategy and business goals - Ensure strategic alignment using impact-effort prioritization and projected ROI validation - Manage dependencies across platforms and coordinate with game divisions on adoption timing - Establish clear success metrics and early signals for each capability component **2. Technical Product Capability Building** - Build and lead a high-performing technical product team (Product Owners, Data Scientists, Analysts) - Establish product management practices that balance speed with quality and learning - Drive build vs. buy decisions, evaluating third-party solutions against in-house development - Foster an AI-first mindset and ensure the team stays current with emerging technologies - Create measurement frameworks to track actual impact and drive continuous improvement **3. Stakeholder Management & Communication** - Run effective customer success programs: co-creating with stakeholders, understanding pain points, driving adoption - Provide regular updates to management team and maintain transparent roadmap communication - Collaborate with game divisions (PI, BH, DR, spinoffs), subsidiaries, and portfolio companies - Work with external partners (technology vendors, licensing partners, publishing team) effectively - Proactively communicate platform incidents, issues, and learnings to stakeholders - International exposure: Work with global partners and a diverse, international workplace **4. R&D Labs & Music Innovation:** Host and lead R&D labs that push the boundaries of music-technology innovation, creating a space f2or cutting-edge experimentation that feeds into Amanotes' product pipeline. - Establish and manage an R&D lab focused on emerging music technologies (AI music generation, audio analysis, real-time audio processing) - Run structured innovation cycles: ideation sprints, rapid prototyping, and validation experiments with clear go/no-go criteria - Explore cutting-edge applications: AI-generated music variations, audio-based CNN for song analysis, dynamic musicalization of gameplay - Bridge research to production: create pathways for successful experiments to graduate into platform capabilities or game features - Foster external partnerships with universities, research institutions, and technology partners for cutting-edge exploration - Allocate dedicated innovation budget and team capacity (10-30%) for experimentation without immediate ROI pressure - Document and share learnings from experiments—both successes and failures—to build organizational knowledge ### QUALIFICATIONS - 8+ years of experience in software engineering, technical leadership, or technology management roles - Proven experience leading large-scale engineering organizations, technical platforms, or digital product ecosystems - Strong strategic leadership capability with proven experience driving technical vision, organizational scaling, and technology strategy aligned with business and company goals - Strong technical foundation in: - + Software architecture - + Scalable systems/infrastructure - + Data & AI systems - + Cloud technologies - + Automation & platform engineering - Strong product mindset: - + Able to understand user/business needs - + Translate business problems into scalable technical solutions - + Balance technical excellence with speed and business impact - Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth, and transformation-oriented environments ### Benefits At Amanotes, you will be enjoying the dynamic working environment with unique music culture many benefits as below: - Competitive salary upon experience - 13th-month salary - Year-end Bonus - ESOP - Flexible working time - Personal learning and well-being budget - Team-building budget - Lunch and parking allowance - Various learning activities, including internal training & sharing, international conferences, and e-learning (Udemy, Linkedin Learning...) - Engaging music events: Music Night, Amasing Night, Music schools… - Employee Assistance Program to support mental health & well-being - Minimum 12 days of paid annual leave, plus 10 days of paid sick leave - 12 days working from home per year