Technical Product Director

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