
Publishing Product Director
Description
Requirements
- 8+ years working at the seam between game development and publishing or marketing, with significant time embedded inside game teams
- Proven ability to translate creative vision into commercial activation, with strong creative judgement and editorial instinct
- Fluency across business models such as premium, live service, DLC and free-to-play, and multi-year roadmap strategy
- Cross-functional leadership and the ability to influence without authority across game and publishing teams
- Strong player insight, audience segmentation and community fluency
- Operating range spanning creative critique and commercial trade-offs
- Experience supporting or launching at least one major game or live-service title from inside the game team
- Track record of being trusted by both game leadership and publishing leadership
Experience Level
Benefits

About the company
CrytekFrankfurt-based AAA game studio and developer of the proprietary CryENGINE. After the February 2025 layoffs (15% of ~400 staff), the company put the next Crysis game on hold and refocused exclusively on Hunt: Showdown 1896 (live-service shooter, which crossed 10M players in fall 2025) and CryENGINE licensing. In January 2026 industry veteran Hannes Seifert (ex-Rockstar/Deep Silver/IO Interactive/Riot) joined founder Avni Yerli as Co-CEO to lead game production and publishing.
“We build immersive AAA games and the engine technology that powers them.”
Size
Large (200–1K)
Employees
340
Glassdoor
3.4 / 5
Tech Stack
Part of Collections
Frankfurt-based AAA game studio and developer of the proprietary CryENGINE. After the February 2025 layoffs (15% of ~400 staff), the company put the next Crysis game on hold and refocused exclusively on Hunt: Showdown 1896 (live-service shooter, which crossed 10M players in fall 2025) and CryENGINE licensing. In January 2026 industry veteran Hannes Seifert (ex-Rockstar/Deep Silver/IO Interactive/Riot) joined founder Avni Yerli as Co-CEO to lead game production and publishing.
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