Technical Product Director
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
In PersonOnsite in Ho Chi Minh City.
ProductTechnical Product Management
About the job
Requirements
- At least 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 and proven experience driving technical vision, organizational scaling, and technology strategy aligned with business and company goals.
- Strong technical foundation in software architecture, scalable systems and infrastructure, data and AI systems, cloud technologies, and automation and platform engineering.
- Ability to understand user and business needs, translate business problems into scalable technical solutions, and balance technical excellence with speed and business impact.
- Comfort operating in fast-paced, high-growth, and transformation-oriented environments.
Responsibilities
- Own Amanotes' Platform and AI Transformation, leading development of scalable internal platforms, personalization capabilities, AI-driven automation, and data foundations.
- Build the analytics and operations platform for the game and app business, targeting a 3–5x productivity uplift across teams.
- Build UA, creative, and ads operations automation systems with automated and smart bidding.
- Support and manage creative production from idea to result.
- Build a holistic A/B testing system covering ideation, hypothesis, conclusion, and report aggregation.
- Develop product analytics with proactive anomaly detection and trend monitoring.
- Automate app publishing workflows, app store management, and compliance.
- Manage licensing and standardize song analytics.
- Lead personalization capabilities that adapt games to users' skills and preferences to maximize engagement.
- Develop dynamic difficulty adjustment, song recommendations based on user behavior and preferences, personalized advertising and in-app purchase formats and pricing, and unified user profiles across the game portfolio.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions for machine-learning recommendation systems.
- Drive an AI-first transformation across production and operations, building a hyper-automation platform with agentic AI capabilities.
- Own foundational data infrastructure, ensuring data quality, accessibility, and actionability.
- Build data collection and cleaning pipelines integrated with operation logs.
- Enable self-service data exploration without dependence on the data analytics team.
- Build proactive monitoring systems with anomaly detection and predictive models.
- Provide a product testing environment with sandboxed, isolated testing capabilities.
- Establish data governance and quality frameworks for downstream system reliability.
- Define and maintain product roadmaps connected to Amanotes' 2028 strategy and business goals.
- Align strategy through impact-effort prioritization and projected return-on-investment validation.
- Manage dependencies across platforms and coordinate adoption timing with game divisions.
- Establish success metrics and early signals for each capability component.
- Build and lead a high-performing technical product team of Product Owners, Data Scientists, and Analysts.
- Establish product management practices that balance speed with quality and learning.
- Make build-versus-buy decisions by evaluating third-party solutions against in-house development.
- Foster an AI-first mindset and keep the team current with emerging technologies.
- Create measurement frameworks to track actual impact and drive continuous improvement.
- Run customer success programs by co-creating with stakeholders, understanding pain points, and driving adoption.
- Provide regular updates to the management team and maintain transparent roadmap communication.
- Collaborate with game divisions, subsidiaries, and portfolio companies.
- Work effectively with technology vendors, licensing partners, and the publishing team.
- Communicate platform incidents, issues, and learnings to stakeholders.
- Work with global partners in an international workplace.
- Establish and manage an R&D lab focused on emerging music technologies, including AI music generation, audio analysis, and real-time audio processing.
- Run structured innovation cycles involving ideation sprints, rapid prototyping, and validation experiments with clear go/no-go criteria.
- Explore AI-generated music variations, audio-based convolutional neural networks for song analysis, and dynamic musicalization of gameplay.
- Create pathways for successful research experiments to become platform capabilities or game features.
- Develop external partnerships with universities, research institutions, and technology partners.
- Allocate dedicated innovation budget and 10–30% of team capacity to experimentation without immediate return-on-investment pressure.
- Document and share experiment learnings, including successes and failures, to build organizational knowledge.
About the company
Amanotes publishes mobile music games and apps that let users interact with music through rhythm-based gameplay. Its titles, including Magic Tiles 3, Tiles Hop, Dancing Road, and Duet Cats, are distributed on Google Play and the iOS App Store as part of a catalog of over 30 games and apps. The company differentiates itself as a leading Southeast Asian publisher with a global reach, boasting billions of downloads and tens of millions of monthly active users across its portfolio. Its goal is to deliver engaging interactive music experiences and grow its community of players and creators.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Balancy's 2026-04-23 deployment cuts engineering bottlenecks and speeds events across 30-plus games.
- Amanotes expanded distribution on Amazon Appstore, Huawei App Gallery, WeChat Mini Games, and YouTube Playables.
- Amanotes says it has 70 million monthly active users and 4 billion downloads, supporting monetization.
What critics are saying
- Amanotes headcount fell 7.3% from 2023 to March 2026, signaling efficiency pressure.
- Google Play and Apple App Store dependency crushes margins if rankings or policies shift.
- Amanotes lacks a durable non-gaming business; music-game hits fade, and portfolio breadth dilutes focus.
What makes Amanotes unique
- Amanotes dominates music games, with 3.5 billion downloads and 30-plus titles, updated 2026-08-20.
- Its 2026 Balancy partnership centralizes LiveOps across Magic Tiles 3 and Tiles Hop.
- Amanotes licenses music and personalizes gameplay through NCS and Reactional Music partnerships.
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Benefits
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Options
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave
- Stock Options
- Professional Development Budget
- Conference Attendance Budget
- Performance Bonus
- Profit Sharing
- Health Insurance
- Mental Health Support
- Meal Benefits