Senior Product Manager
About the job
Description
Senior Product Manager | Product | London | Full-Time
We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.
We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.
Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.
We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.
We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!
Senior Product Manager
Hutch are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join their team in London. You should be result-oriented and enjoy working with a high level of autonomy. You should have a good knowledge of the mobile gaming market, an understanding of business ethics and a data-driven approach to optimisation.
You’ll be reporting to the Game Director and work closely with the Analyst and other Product Managers to execute a product-centered strategy that will drive sustainable growth across all KPI’s.
Responsibilities
- Understand and improve internal processes
- Sole Owner of Live-ops
- Pricing In-game Assets
- Collaboration with Analysts & Game Designer
- Balancing game economy
- Feature Design
- Designing offers for improving the monetisation of the game
- Create hypothesis and a/b test those hypothesis
- Develop feature ideas that address user and business needs and work cross-functionally (with engineers, UI designers, community, marketing, etc.) to launch them
- Handling continual product requirements for sustaining the product’s health
- Analyse and report on product performance
- Deliver market & competitor analyses, with a particular focus on games operating in the same space
Requirements
- Experience in the mobile gaming industry in a product management or game design role
- Understanding of A/B testing fundamentals
- Exceptional analytical skills, including the ability to extract data
- Understanding of Power of Live-Ops
- Ability to write clear and concise specs for new features
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Passion for games and mobile gaming
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work with different stakeholders
- Interest in “Free to Play” gaming
Bonus Points
- Ability to create UI wireframes and tailor good UX
- Experience with CRM tools like Braze, Leanplum etc.
- Extensive market knowledge (e.g. all top grossing games)
- Ability to extract data via SQL
- Motorsports enthusiast
- Interested in community management
Benefits
Life at Hutch
Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch in central London. We have additional offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with;
- Hutch is now a 4-Day Work Week company*
- Flexible working hours
- Remote working 2 days per week
- Excellent salary
- Private health care
- Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
- Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
- Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
- Free snacks and drinks
- Social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more
*This will mean that Hutch employees will work a maximum of 4 days per week (30 hours/week) Mon-Thurs, with zero reductions in pay (compared to a 5 day working week).
Our Values
- Transparent - Being transparent and open helps us to be trusted and fosters integrity.
- Humble - When we are humble we show humility, we let go of egos and we are self-aware.
- Collaborative - We value teamwork, the spirit of collaboration and the results of working together.
- Driven - We have drive and ambition and always push for the best results rather than settling.
- Adaptable - Demonstrating the ability to adapt ultimately helps us grow and helps us thrive in different situations
We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/
About The Company
Hutch has been voted one of the Best Places to Work in the gamesindustry.biz awards for the last 3 years in a row! Since inception in 2011, we've entertained over 300 million mobile players across game titles including Rebel Racing, F1® Clash, Top Drives, and Hot Wheels: Race Off. We’re dedicated to growing the racing genre on mobile, and enabling communities of players worldwide to celebrate their passion for cars.
People make games, and our people are the heart and soul of Hutch. We’ve created a work environment that we’re proud of and enjoy spending time in. As a team, we work together and play together. We take on creative and technical challenges to make great games and have fun along the way.
Teams at Hutch have the freedom and responsibility to make the best decisions for the players, and we are committed to making their working lives as easy and as simple as possible.
We’ve created an award-winning culture for our 100+ world-class team members, housed in our main studio in Shoreditch, London, with wider studios situated in Dundee and Canada. In December 2020 Hutch was acquired by Modern Times Group (MTG) to further accelerate opportunities to build highly diverse automotive experiences on mobile.
