Product Manager

Product Manager About the Role: As a Product Manager working with the technology at IO Interactive, you will play a central role in shaping the road map, feature set and delivering the vision for our proprietary game engine, Glacier, that for 2 decades has contributed to shaping the game development world. As part of the Product group, you will collaborate closely with engineering and production teams to ensure the tooling, Editor and engine evolves to meet and exceed the needs of our AAA game development teams, while innovating world class features and usability. What you will do Be part of the Glacier Product group, owning and evolving the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for the Glacier Game Engine, ensuring alignment with the company’s game development goals and long-term technology strategy. Work closely with engineering teams to define, prioritize, and deliver engine features, workflow improvements, and technical innovations that empower game teams and content creators. Help envision and design industry-defining UX and UI experiences for game development tools and workflows. Define user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical requirements to support high-quality implementation and usability. Act as a liaison between game teams and the engine development team, gathering requirements and ensuring the engine supports both creative ambitions and technical needs across projects. Drive cross-functional collaboration to ensure smooth integration of engine improvements into the game development pipeline and production workflows. Champion the needs of developers and content creators by advocating for intuitive user experiences, workflow efficiency, and best-in-class tooling. Continuously assess market trends, competitor technologies, and industry advancements to help shape the future evolution of the Glacier engine. Communicate progress, priorities, risks, and updates clearly to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency across teams. Who you are Experience as a Product Manager or in a related role within the games industry, ideally with experience in game engines, developer tools, or technical product development. Strong understanding of usability, UX/UI principles, and workflows within game engines and game development pipelines. Passion for UX, innovation, and driving technical excellence in game development tools and technology. Ability to translate complex problems and user needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and actionable development priorities. Natural curiosity for emerging technologies, workflows, and solutions that improve the developer and creator experience. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance technical requirements with creative goals. Strong organizational skills and experience managing complex initiatives in a collaborative and creative environment. Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, production, and game teams. Passion for games, game development, and building tools that enable teams to create outstanding player experiences. Why Join Us? Work on industry leading technology that powers world-class AAA games. Ensure the success of games with millions of players. Collaborate with the industry's top-tier talent in a highly creative and technical environment. Shape the technology of tomorrow with Glacier. Enjoy a culture of innovation, ownership and empowerment. If you’re passionate about driving the development of next-generation usability, game engine technology and enabling game teams to create outstanding experiences, we’d love to hear from you! BE IMPACTFUL! Who we are: IO Interactive is an independent videogame development and publishing company with studios in Copenhagen, Malmö, Barcelona, Istanbul and Brighton. As the creative force behind some of the most talked-about multiplatform video games in the last decade, we are committed to creating unforgettable characters and experiences – all powered by our award-winning, proprietary Glacier technology. IOI is a studio that values in-person collaboration. Being together helps us focus our collective energy on our immediate goals. For us, being both in-office as well as connected across our studios helps us integrate our teams faster, strengthen relationships, and improve knowledge-sharing. We believe that the more time we spend together, the more quality and progress we achieve for our games and players. We know that to achieve those goals, we need courage, talented people and a great working environment – and we do our utmost to have all of that. Across our multiple studios, we’re working on several projects. Crucially though, we’re all one team. We value the work and impact that each person brings to the table and we actively encourage new ideas, whilst listening to your insights along the way. We have a dedicated team of People Managers, who look after you as an individual and as an employee. With more than 40 nationalities, we know that everyone is different and we are proud to have a reputation for being a friendly workplace with highly-talent people. Learn more about our Glacier engine. Department Production Locations Malmö, Brighton, Copenhagen, Barcelona Remote status Hybrid Project Backbone Vacancy ID VAC1159 About IOI IO Interactive is an independent video game development and publishing company with studios in Copenhagen, Malmö, Barcelona, Brighton and Istanbul. As the creative force behind some of the most talked-about multiplatform video games in the last decade, we are dedicated to creating unforgettable characters and experiences – all powered by our award-winning proprietary Glacier technology. Founded in 1998