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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 20 days Appodeal's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Appodeal's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Appodeal
- high 10 stale, 0 reposted of 13 open
- Hiring momentum
- 17 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Appodeal's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Appodeal.
About this role
The Head of Product Development at Appodeal will lead the product and engineering efforts for their mobile gaming portfolio, which includes games like WordMaker and Solitaire. This role involves defining product strategy, overseeing technical architecture, driving AI adoption, and personally contributing to both product and engineering tasks. The position emphasizes hands-on leadership, fostering team growth, and ensuring data-driven decision-making within a fast-paced environment.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Appodeal as an employer.
What you need
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including senior leadership roles in mobile gaming or mobile product environments.
- Genuine hands-on in both product and engineering — you write PRDs and you write code. Not one delegated to someone else.
- Strong expertise in Unity (C#) and mobile game architecture; solid understanding of scalable backend systems and client-server architecture.
- AI-native, not AI-curious — you have concrete production examples of AI tools accelerating your output. You don't describe it in theory; you show it.
- Leadership by proximity — you have led small, high-performance teams in a fast-moving environment. You grow people by working alongside them, not by reviewing their work from a distance.
- Data-driven mindset — experience working in environments with frequent experimentation cycles, A/B testing, and metric-driven decision-making.
Nice to have
- Founded or co-founded a mobile gaming studio.
- Have directly scaled an ad-monetized casual game from early traction to meaningful portfolio revenue.
- Have built internal tooling, automation pipelines, or SDK integrations alongside product work.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release processes (Unity Cloud Build, GitHub Actions).
- Familiarity with analytics tools: Firebase, GameAnalytics, Amplitude.
What you get
- Ownership without guardrails.
- Real products, real traction.
- AI-first environment.
- Lean, high-trust team.
- Competitive compensation.
Worth weighing
- No specific salary figures mentioned.
- The role requires both product and engineering contributions, which may be demanding for some candidates.
- The emphasis on AI-native experience suggests a strong focus on modern technologies and methodologies.
Summarised from Appodeal's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Appodeal on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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