Ishan Manjrekar

Game: Subway Surfers

• Leading an end-to-end structural game redesign from concept to launch while sustaining live operations.
• Owning and executing seasonal live operations to drive sustained player engagement.
• Owner across multiple feature targeting key product KPIs.
• Contributing to defining the long-term vision and strategic direction of the game.
• Mentoring and coaching game designers and product managers, strengthening shared game understanding and team effectiveness
• Part of the core team, which in the last few years has achieved:
  • A skyrocketed growth in DAU and baseline revenue.
  • Instrumental in driving significant improvements in retention and engagement, leading to outstanding growth.
  • Recorded the best revenue and DAU days in the 11-year history of the game, a remarkable feat in the industry.
  • Dominated as the most downloaded game for multiple months, as well as throughout the past years.
  • Winner: Best Live Ops, Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2022

• Developing game-changing experiences for Subway Surfers, a global phenomenon with over 4 billion lifetime installs.
• Conceptualizing and executing on features that greatly enhance the overall game meta.
• Owning and executing dynamic live operations that keep players engaged on a seasonal basis.
• Streamlining team collaboration through the implementation of streamlined documentation and meeting systems.

• Innovative vision-holder and product owner, leading new IP development and prototyping initiatives.
• Expert in-house design overseer for all externally developed games, ensuring game design excellence and alignment with vision.
• Established streamlined design documentation and feedback processes for seamless collaboration with external partners.
• Design owner for major updates on My Talking Angela and My Talking Tom 2, games with a combined 1Bn+ lifetime installs.
• Successfully designed and executed a live-operation setup for Tamagotchi-genre game, shaping company strategy for live games.
• Crafted and implemented game-changing features for the highly acclaimed My Talking Tom Friends, reaching 100 million installs in its first month of release.

Game: Farmville 2

• Design owner for new short as well as long term cadence features and events.
• Involved in making key product decisions along with the product managers and the system designers.
• Key involvement in the co-ordination with the different disciplines to ensure timely delivery of the product without compromising on the quality.

Game: Farmville 2

• Design owner on multiple game optimizations to improve the key metrics for the entire game.
• Design owner on multiple weekly cadence features which sustain the baseline performance of the game.

Game: Draw Something

• Design owner for the day-to-day cadence in the game.
• Key involvement in launching ‘Speed Guess Something’ as a revamped and updated version of the game with new game mode.

• Leading the mobile game design team.
• Game Designer on Parking Frenzy 2.0, which went on to become #1 iOS App in the world in 2012.
• Designed and launched 10+ casual game titles on all the major mobile platforms – Android, iOS, Amazon Kindle, Windows Phone.
• Overseeing the production process for multiple games including effective co-ordination with internal as well as external development teams.

• Conceptualizing new game ideas for various mobile platforms.
• Designed and produced multiple mobile games for the Nokia Ovi Store based on popular IP.