Playables AI Engineer

Voodoo

ABOUT VOODOO Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz. TEAM The Engineering & Data team builds innovative tech products and platforms to support the impressive growth of their gaming and consumer apps which allow Voodoo to stay at the forefront of the mobile gaming industry. You will specifically join VGP Team. VGP automates repetitive and high-volume growth tasks, starting with the distribution of over 25,000 creatives across multiple ad networks and campaigns per year, and continuously improves decision-making, performance monitoring, and playable ads production. The platform is evolving to integrate AI-driven campaign launches, bidding automation, and expanded network coverage. ROLE We’re looking for an Engineering Lead (TypeScript/Node.js) to join our Engineering & Data team. As an Engineering Lead, you'll combine strong individual technical contributions with team leadership. You'll be responsible for the technical direction of your squad, the growth of your engineers, and the delivery of high-impact projects. This is a hybrid IC/manager role — you'll still write code, but your leverage is through the team. * Lead the technical direction and architecture for your squad's domain * Drive design reviews, set coding standards, and ensure engineering excellence * Own the full delivery of complex, cross-team technical initiatives * Build, scale and operate Node.js/TypeScript backend services on AWS/EKS * Define the infrastructure and reliability strategy for your team's systems * Partner with Product and Data to translate business goals into technical roadmaps * Grow engineers through 1:1s, code reviews, mentorship and technical coaching * Identify systemic risks and drive improvements before they become incidents * Be an ambassador for engineering culture: psychological safety, pragmatism, and craft PROFILE (MUST HAVE) * 7+ years of professional software engineering experience * 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team (formal or informal) * Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript /Node.js * Good knowledge of industry best practices (SOLID, KISS, YAGNI, DDD, TDD...) * Proven ability to own and deliver large technical projects with cross-team dependencies * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills * Track record of growing engineers and building high-performing teams * Ability to balance speed-of-delivery with long-term technical health PROFILE (NICE TO HAVE) * Advanced PostgreSQL — schema design at scale, performance tuning, migrations * Experience with VueJS or frontend architecture decisions * Experience with AWS infrastructure (EKS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, SQS/SNS, CloudFront, ALB) * Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, Helm) at scale * Observability and SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, on-call management * Experience operating in a hyper-growth or gaming/consumer product company * Platform engineering or developer experience background OUR STACK * TypeScript ; Node.js ; AWS ; Terraform ; CDK ; Helm BENEFITS * Competitive salary based on experience * Swile Lunch voucher * Gymlib (100% covered by Voodoo) * Premium healthcare coverage with SideCare, 100% covered for you and your family * Wellness activities in our Paris office * Remote Fridays

Voodoo

ABOUT VOODOO Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz. TEAM You will work within the Growth team, in cooperation with Engineering & Data teams, enabling our Growth operations to move faster, smarter, and at significantly greater scale. As Lead Product Manager you will be integrated in the VGP Team. VGP automates repetitive and high-volume growth tasks, starting with the distribution of over 25,000 creatives across multiple ad networks and campaigns per year, and continuously improves decision-making, performance monitoring, and playable ads production. The platform is evolving to integrate AI-driven campaign launches, bidding automation, and expanded network coverage. ROLE We’re looking for a Lead Product Manager to join our Growth team. In this role, you’ll build scalable automation systems at the intersection of Growth, AdTech, and AI. You will own the vision, roadmap, and delivery of the Voodoo Growth Platform (VGP), a strategic internal product that powers the automation of our user acquisition operations at scale. You will: * Define and drive the long-term vision and roadmap of the Voodoo Growth Platform. * Build scalable systems to automate campaign launches, creative uploads, and cross-network distribution. * Lead the integration of AI-driven features to automate bidding strategies, campaign setup, and performance optimization. * Partner closely with engineers and tech leads to design and deliver reliable, high-performance systems. * Collaborate with Growth teams to deeply understand operational pain points and turn them into automation opportunities. * Work with Product Managers across Voodoo to anticipate dependencies and align roadmaps. * Improve data-driven decision-making by enhancing performance tracking, reporting, and experimentation frameworks within VGP. * Ensure platform robustness, monitoring, and operational excellence * Balance short-term operational efficiency gains with long-term platform scalability and technical excellence * Foster a culture of automation-first thinking across the Growth operations PROFILE * Strong experience as a Product Manager in Growth, AdTech, automation platforms, or similarly technical environments * Proven experience building internal tools or scalable B2B/B2B2C platforms * Understanding of user acquisition ecosystems (ad networks, campaign structures, creatives, bidding strategies) * Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate performance data into product decisions. * Experience working closely with engineering teams on complex technical roadmaps. * Interest in AI-driven automation * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. * Comfortable operating in fast-paced, performance-driven environments. BENEFITS * Competitive salary based on experience * Swile Lunch voucher * Gymlib (100% covered by Voodoo) * Premium healthcare coverage with SideCare, 100% covered for you and your family * Wellness activities in our Paris office * Remote Fridays

Voodoo

ABOUT VOODOO Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular Studios like BeachBum and apps such as BeReal and Wizz. TEAM Join Cortex, a small, fast-moving studio building smart mobile puzzle games — The Almanac, a daily ritual for tens of thousands of players, and new titles like Shikaku. We're a lean, growth-driven team backed by Voodoo. You'll sit at the heart of how we find and convert new players. ROLE As Cortex's Growth Manager Junior (Internship), you'll own the creative engine behind our user acquisition. Your job is to produce a high volume of ad creatives with AI tools, test them fast, and find what makes players click and install. You'll start on creative production and ASO, and progressively grow into monitoring and steering our UA campaigns day-to-day. This is a junior role, ideal for a first or second professional experience — we hire on your creative output and your energy, not your CV. RESPONSIBILITIES * Produce a high volume of ad creatives (video, static, playable concepts) using AI tools like Scenario, Midjourney, Runway and CapCut * Test creatives, read the results, and iterate fast to bring the CPI down * Own ASO across the App Store: keywords, screenshots, and continuous iteration * Watch the market and competitors to feed fresh creative angles * Support and progressively take ownership of daily UA monitoring (AppLovin, Meta) * Work hand-in-hand with the founder, and level up on UA economics through an onboarding with Voodoo's growth team PROFILE * Gen Z, marketing brain paired with creative hands * Already creating on your own — a faceless page, UGC, AI experiments. You bring a portfolio, not a diploma * Fluent with AI creative tools, or the kind of person who learns a new tool in an afternoon * Analytical curiosity: you want to understand why a creative converts * Huge energy and ownership, comfortable shipping 10 rough creatives to find the 1 that works * Video editing is a strong plus * Fluent English BENEFITS Competitive salary, performance bonus, and other benefits according to the country you reside in.