Technical Product Director

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

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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