Game Operation - Technical Product Manager
Job Description
- Experience in platform/B2B2C products
- Background in development/technical field
- Background in leading AI projects
- Technical understanding of software engineering concepts
- Project management skills
- Understanding of the gaming industry
- Flexibility/Agility
- Resilience
- Presentation skills
- Negotiation skills
- 3+ years of experience in product management
- Discovery and ideation of user needs
- Market and user research
- Writing PRDs
- Analytical coverage of features
- Planning product lifecycle
- Conducting user testing
- Leading product execution
- Collaboration with R&D and other teams
- Agile methodologies
- User flow analysis
- Task-oriented and independent worker
- Ownership
- Leading without authority
- Good communication skills
- Proactiveness
- Self-learning abilities
- Attention to details
Join us at Playtika (NASDAQ: PLTK), where we're driven by the belief life needs play. We’re on a mission to deliver infinite ways to play using cutting-edge technologies like AI and machine learning to craft immersive experiences that connect, inspire and entertain millions of players worldwide.
From our start as a small mobile games company founded in Israel to our current position as a publicly traded company and industry leader, we continue to be a dominant force in interactive entertainment. With a diverse portfolio of award-winning, category-leading Casual and Social Casino-themed games, including nine of the top 100 highest-grossing mobile games in the US, we're setting the standard for excellence.
Our success story is co-authored by a dynamic team of storytellers, strategists, creators and data scientists who thrive on innovation. We are home of the best, advancing an inclusive culture that embraces our core values and reflects our agile DNA.
With a strong financial foundation, disciplined operations, unwavering player-focused approach and relentless can-do spirit, we're well-positioned for sustained growth. If you're ready to join the driving force behind the evolution of interactive entertainment, we invite you to come play with us.
Discovering and understanding the business needs and converting them into a product requirement that is tailored to the users’ needs. Defining the vision of the product based on the actual requirements and the view of new opportunities that might be derived from it. Creating hypothesis and assumptions based on quality and quantity research providing the best suit of understanding covering the product also from the measurement perspective and KPIs orientation aligned with the company’s needs. Managing the product throughout all of it life cycle
Responsibilities
- Discovery and concept creation
- Discovery and ideation of the users’ needs and pains
- Ability to translate the spoken pain into a need with a wider range of opportunities
- Conducts market and user researches throughout the product's life cycle, both for similar features from the industry and examples for UX solutions of specific feature needs
- Consolidates all studio domains behind a feature's concept that meets the feature's business requirements and KPIs (task force leader)
- Writing a PRD (Product Requirements Document) that includes the feature’s design the flow
- Have a full analytical coverage of the feature, in all phases
- Plan the product life cycle
- Conducts and plans tests and challenges for the product before production
- Breaks down PRD (Product Requirements Document) to detailed R&D requirements and timelines
- Creates user stories based on PRD document
- Prioritizes the backlog and identifies potential problems (performance or product experience issues)
- Have user testing for any customer facing component
- Validates the definition of done of the feature requirements and acceptance criteria
- Lead the product execution
- Leads the execution phase of the product's life cycle
- Helps the GrM to lead the delivery of the product on time, escalate when needed and communicate with other parties
- Acts as the contact point for R&D team on all product aspects daily
- Builds specific sprint's scope with R&D team
- Responsible for conducting routine grooming meetings with the R&D team (effort estimation and 'micro-planning’) and other parties such as data and AI
- Times and coordinates every domain's relevant output with the product's planned release
- Responsible for the customer-facing documentation of the feature and communication of the features to the customers and users
- Receives feedback for new features and prioritizes needed changes
- Manage the guild of the relevant personas that relates to the product
- Product Implementation and Adoption
- Lead use case implementation together with the partners
- Deep dive and learn the product details in order to escort the technical requirements
Professional Requirements - Experience & Competencies
- +3 years of experience in product management positions – A must
- Previous experience in platform/B2B2C products – Advantage
- Technological orientation
- Background in development/Technical field – Advantage
- Background in leading AI projects – Advantage
- Technical Understanding of Basic Software Engineering Concepts - Advantage
- Knowledge of working in agile methodologies
- Project Management skills
- In-depth understanding of user flow analysis and creation
- Plays and understands the gaming industry - an advantage
Soft Skills
- Task-oriented and independent worker
- Ownership
- Leading without authority
- Good Personal Communication skills
- Proactiveness
- Self-learning abilities
- Flexibility/Agility
- Resilience
- Presentation skills
- Attention to details
- Negotiation skills
Interfaces
R&D Game Economy, UX, Monetization, BA, Marketing, Creative, GameOps, Data, AI
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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