Game Operation - Technical Product Manager

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