Principal Product Manager
Principal Product Manager | Product | London | Full-Time
We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 300 million people, with new titles in development.
We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.
Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.
We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.
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Principal Product Manager
Hutch is looking for a Principal Product Manager to drive the strategic vision and accelerate the growth of our flagship motorsports title - F1 Clash - helping deliver our ambition to be the #1 mobile racing game.
Join us working on one of the biggest IPs in the world. As a Principal Product Manager, you will be the strategic pillar for the game's economy and live operations. You will own this roadmap, govern complex pricing architectures, and lead a high-performing team to build, operate, and grow this game to new heights.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Economy Ownership
- Vision & Strategy: Set the overarching Live Ops & Economy roadmap, aligning seasonal beats with long-term commercial goals and sustainable growth.
- Economy & Pricing Governance: Take full ownership of in-game balance, currency sinks, and pricing architecture to maximize LTV and player sentiment.
- Annual Season Change Ownership: Lead the high-stakes Annual Season & Economy Reset—defining the strategy for major meta shifts and economy refreshes that define the game's yearly cycle.
- Optimization & Scale: Drive the A/B testing framework and define the technical tool requirements needed to build an elite, automated team workflow.
Execution & Team Management
- Content & Campaign Delivery: Gets hands on and support the Design team, CRM Manager, and Associate PM in the end-to-end execution of events, offers, CRM, and Webstore operations.
- Operational Excellence: Orchestrate seamless live ops, ensuring total economy stability and high-impact content refreshes.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Mentor and develop the Associate PM, fostering a culture of accuracy, creative problem solving and data-led decision-making.
- Shared Operations: Partner with the Product Director & other PMs to oversee Releases, Game Health, UA, Forecasting, and Small Feature support.
Requirements
- Proven Senior Experience: An extensive track record operating as a Senior, Lead, or Principal Product Manager on top-grossing free-to-play mobile games.
- Economy & Systems Mastery: Deep expertise in designing, balancing, and governing complex game economies, pricing architectures, and macro-level game systems.
- Market Authority: Deep, authoritative knowledge of the free-to-play games market, best practices from top-performing games, and a thorough understanding of their success drivers.
- Advanced Analytical Ability: Highly scientific approach to data; experience defining A/B testing frameworks, forecasting performance, running complex live ops, and investigating high-level game performance issues.
- Ownership & Drive: A strong ownership mentality with a "get it done" attitude, capable of balancing immediate operational needs with long-term strategic goals.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Experience mentoring and developing junior product managers or cross-functional team members.
- Exceptional Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage senior stakeholders, present clear strategies, and rally a team around a shared vision.
Bonus Points
- Experience leading big meta shifts, sequel transitions, or yearly economy resets in a live game.
- Experience working with gacha-led and/or midcore games.
- Advanced experience with dashboarding and analytics tools (e.g., SQL, Amplitude, Tableau).
- Experience overseeing CRM strategies using tools like Braze, Leanplum, etc.
- A passion for Cars or Motorsports, especially F1Ⓡ!
- Experience working specifically within the Racing Games genre.
Benefits
Life at Hutch
Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch in central London. We have additional offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with;
- Remote working 2 days per week (Tues & Thurs in the studio)
- Excellent salary
- Private health care
- Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
- Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
- Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
- Free snacks and drinks
- Social events, game launch parties, Team days and much more
Our Values
- Transparent - Being transparent and open helps us to be trusted and fosters integrity.
- Humble - When we are humble we show humility, we let go of egos and we are self-aware.
- Collaborative - We value teamwork, the spirit of collaboration and the results of working together.
- Driven - We have drive and ambition and always push for the best results rather than settling.
- Adaptable - Demonstrating the ability to adapt ultimately helps us grow and helps us thrive in different situations
We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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Come and find out more about Hutch - https://www.hutch.io/