Lead Product Manager

4 Months ago • 5 Years +

Product Management

Job Description

As Lead Product Manager, you will be a vital team member responsible for shaping product strategy, feature roadmap development, and mentoring individual product managers. You will oversee the entire player experience to optimize both ROI and player satisfaction. Your data-informed decisions and competitor insights will be crucial to the game's success, impacting some of Jam City's top titles. The ideal candidate is passionate about creative style games, capable of extracting, analyzing, and reporting game data to drive effective business decisions. They possess the agility to manage projects independently and thrive in a fast-evolving, data-driven company, with strong interpersonal skills for effective communication with distributed teams.

Good To Have:

Passion for creative style games
Agility to manage projects independently
Willingness to learn SQL
Experience managing, training, and developing a PM team

Must Have:

Shape product strategy and feature roadmap
Manage end-to-end player experience
Optimize ROI and player satisfaction
Analyze game data and competitor insights
Work with Designers, PMs, and Analysts
Manage liveOps strategy and execution
Design and iterate features
Build automated reports with Analytics
Understand game metrics for A/B testing
Coordinate in-game communication
Manage and grow junior product talent
Communicate KPIs and game health
Build presentations for complex ideas
5+ years in Product Management (mobile/games)
Excellent analytical and quantitative skills
Experience writing SQL queries
Manage projects from concept to completion
Outstanding communication and organization
Understand game economy and metrics
Develop roadmaps based on game needs

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As Lead Product Manager you will be a critical member of the team, shaping the product strategy, feature roadmap efforts, and developing the skills of the individual product managers. Working closely with key stakeholders you will manage the end-to-end player experience to maximize both ROI and player satisfaction. You're data-informed decisions and competitor insights will directly impact the game's success - Optimizing some of Jam City’s top titles.The ideal candidate is passionate about creative style games, can pull, analyze, and report data from the game and use this to inform effective business decisions. They have the agility to manage projects on their own and understand how they work in a fast evolving, data driven company. They have the people skills to work smoothly and communicate effectively with distributed teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Work closely with Designers, PMs, and Analysts to identify, test and measure high-impact product changes that drive growth in revenue, reach and retention.
Manage end-to-end liveOps strategy and execution to hit monthly revenue goals via both supply and demand side monetization tactics.
Design and iterate features to improve key indicators, by making our games more engaging.
Analyze game data and build automated reports alongside Analytics and Data Science counterparts to make data-informed business decisions.
Identify tools and reporting needs to enable proper game health monitoring and feature efficacy.
Understand game metrics to inform hypotheses and create A/B testing experiments with clear and measurable success criteria.
Work with Marketing, Community, and Consumer Insights teams to coordinate and evangelize in-game communication and align these efforts to broader external marketing initiatives.
Manage and help grow junior product talent
Effectively communicates relevant KPIs, updates and general game health to key stakeholders in a timely fashion.
Build clear and informative slide presentations to distill complex ideas and metrics for communication across departments and with management

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors or Masters Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in Product Management in consumer mobile or game development (mobile games preferred)
Excellent analytical and quantitative skills with a focus on data-driven decision making.
Thrives in an entrepreneurial environment with a creative problem solving mindset.
Experience writing SQL queries and distilling complex analysis into actionable insights or willingness to learn.
Self-starter with experience managing projects from concept through completion.
Outstanding communication and organizational skills.
Must be able to understand and diagnose the economy of the game, driving healthy behavioral metrics.
Must be able to work closely with studio leadership in developing an optimum roadmap for future features based on evolving game needs.
Experience managing, training and developing a product management team.