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As a Mobile Technical Program Manager within 1st Party Operations, you’ll be a key partner in driving successful submissions and technical integrations across a range of projects and game teams.

You will work closely with cross-functional partners—from production and engineering to legal and BD/marketing—to ensure that content is delivered smoothly and reliably to players. This includes supporting product creation and configuration, scheduling releases, validating marketing assets for mobile stores, and helping teams navigate the ever-evolving landscape of Apple and Google requirements.

You’ll provide technical guidance and clarity to Game Teams on how platform requirements impact their roadmaps, ensuring proper planning, testing, tracking, and risk management. The role demands strong organization, clear communication, and the ability to juggle multiple priorities while keeping stakeholders informed and aligned.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years as a release submissions technician where you have shipped at least 4 games on mobile stores
• 3+ years in a technical account management, developer relations, or platform operations role — in Mobile free-to-play gaming, apps, or live services
• Hands-on experience with App Store Connect and Google Play Developer Consoles, iOS and Android APIs, SDKs, and tools across various stages of pre-release, release and post-release for mobile live-service games
• Actively communicates a positive, outgoing approach to submissions. Capable of dissecting and resolving issues with internal and external teams
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with experience working cross-functionally across engineering, production, and external teams
• Able to prioritize multiple tasks to drive projects to completion with attention to detail and accuracy across multi-disciplinary needs through tech, localization, QA, and other dependencies
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to convey appropriate levels of detail for each target audience

Desired Qualifications:

• Hands-on testing of game functionality across the Android/iOS device catalog
• Experience translating Apple and Android OS guidelines into effective 1st Party Standard test cases
• Experience with Mobile F2P game development and Live Operations, working hands-on with game development teams that operate a live service model of content updates
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology and project management software such as JIRA, Notion, Trello, Airtable, etc
• Working knowledge of PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, PC platforms