We are seeking a Product Manager to join the Core Games Product team, focusing on the Hangar13 Studios and the Mafia franchise. This role involves informing, researching, and evangelizing product insights and data reporting for AAA game development. You will collaborate with studio and publishing leadership to develop and optimize strategic directions, identify product opportunities, and present materials to stakeholders. Responsibilities include providing deep game insights, driving product market fit, analyzing player behavior, defining telemetry needs, and supporting commercial growth strategies.

Must Have

• Inform, research, and evangelize product insights and data reporting for AAA game development
• Work closely with studio, publishing product leadership, and cross-functional teams to develop and optimize strategies
• Identify, research, and present product opportunities for the business and broader portfolio
• Collaborate with studio development and publishing teams to support product priorities
• Provide deep insights into games and their competition, facilitating critical initiatives
• Drive understanding of product market fit throughout the full development lifecycle
• Provide insights-backed product recommendations, collaborating with data science, consumer insights, and UXR teams
• Coordinate and define telemetry needs, critical metrics, reporting, and analyses
• Analyze data and translate it into insights and strategies to meet franchise targets
• Support Commercial Growth teams and Product Leadership in building strategies for pricing, promotions, SKUs, and monetization
• Deliver market intelligence research on competitive landscape, trends, and competitor products
• 4-6 years in the Games Industry (AAA Publisher/Studio-side Product Manager/Producer/Designer)
• Helped bring at least 1 AAA game to market
• Data-informed decision maker balancing business priorities, player perspective, and resources
• Strong scenario modeling and data-presentation skills, proficient with business intelligence tools
• Experience with Consumer Insights, User Experience Research, Data Science
• Understand market opportunities, player motivations, and apply knowledge to influence game direction
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Alignment-building bias, preference for collaboration and influence
• Excel in ambiguous environments and drive clarity

Good to Have

• Strong critical thinking, strategy, problem-solving, business analysis, and data-informed decision-making capabilities
• Engaged learner within the market space and industry trends
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau
• Formal or self-taught education in structured data manipulation languages (SQL, VizQL, Python, MDX)

Perks & Benefits

• Bonus and/or equity awards
• Eligibility to participate in 401(K) plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Medical insurance coverage
• Dental insurance coverage
• Vision insurance coverage
• Basic life insurance coverage
• 14 paid holidays per calendar year
• Paid vacation time (15 to 25 days) or discretionary time off program
• Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year
• Paid parental leave
• Paid compassionate leave
• Wellbeing programs for mental health and wellness support
• Family planning support through Maven
• Commuter benefits
• Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses

Who We Are

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, 31st Union, HB Studios, and 2K SportsLab. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of 2K’s portfolio currently includes several AAA, sports and entertainment brands, including global powerhouse NBA®️ 2K, renowned BioShock®️, Borderlands®️, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization®️ and XCOM®️ brands; popular WWE®️ 2K and WWE®️ SuperCard franchises, TopSpin 2K25, as well as the critically and commercially acclaimed PGA TOUR®️ 2K

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions, even if they don’t meet every requirement for the role. If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K, we encourage you to apply!

What We Need

We are looking for a Product Manager to join the Core Games Product team focused on our Hangar13 Studios. Your role will be to help inform, research and evangelize product insights and data reporting in support of AAA game development for the Mafia franchise and future IPs. You will work closely with the studio, publishing product leadership, and other cross-functional teams to develop, guide, implement, and optimize the strategies that underpin our current and future franchise directions.

You will be responsible for helping to identify, research and present product opportunities for this business, and for the broader portfolio. You will work with Product Leadership in your business to craft and present materials to stakeholders across both the studio and 2K, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and driving the successful execution of product initiatives.

What You Will Do

Closely collaborate with studio development and publishing teams to support product priorities, including:

• Provide deep insights in the games in your portfolio and their competition. Help facilitate and lead critical initiatives, manage priorities, and share valuable insights across the portfolio.
• Help drive the process of understanding the product market fit for our games, working cross functionally and strategically throughout the full development lifecycle, from concept to post-launch.
• Provide insights-backed product recommendations to your business’s Product Leadership, collaborating directly with insights teams (Data Science, Consumer Insights, UXR) to analyze player behavior, assess product performance, and contribute to product priorities and roadmaps.
• Help coordinate and define telemetry needs, critical metrics, reporting, and analyses needed to develop insights into player behaviors. Analyze data and translate it into insights and strategies that enable us to meet and exceed core franchise targets.
• Support Commercial Growth teams and Product Leadership to build strategies for pricing, in-game promotions, SKUs, and ongoing content and monetization approaches.
• Market Intelligence – Deliver research on the competitive landscape, trends, competitor products, including product teardowns and competitive analysis.

What Will Make You a Great Fit

• 4 - 6 years in the Games Industry, ideally in one of the following, or similar, capacities:
• AAA Publisher experience, as a Product Manager and/or a Producer.
• AAA Studio-side game development experience, as a Product Manager, Systems Designer, Economies Designer and/or a Producer.
• Has helped bring at least 1 AAA game to market in relevant capacity.
• Data-informed decision maker who is able to balance business priorities, the player perspective, resources, capacity, and developer needs.
• Strong scenario modeling and data-presentation skills. Proficiency with business intelligence tools and comfortable building models to explore opportunities while working closely with analytics.
• Experience working with Consumer Insights, User Experience Research, Data Science and other research and insights functions
• Understand opportunities and gaps within the market, player motivational and persona frameworks, and how to apply that knowledge to influence game direction.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify, structure, and communicate information for all levels of the organization
• Alignment-building bias. Preference for collaboration, influence and education to get results.
• Excel in ambiguous environments and enjoy driving clarity.

Bonus Points

• Strong critical thinking, strategy, problem-solving, business analysis, and data-informed decision-making capabilities.
• Engaged learner within the market space and what’s going on in our industry - including constantly updating that understanding.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau.
• Formal or self taught education in structured data manipulation languages SQL, VizQL, Python, MDX etc.

The pay range for this position in Washington at the start of employment is expected to be between $130,700 and $174,300 per Year/Hour. However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards and eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program.Regular, full-time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company, including: medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.

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