Job Description
As Product Manager, you will own the business key performance indicators (KPIs) for your game, managing monetization, player analytics, and content strategy to maximize player lifetime value (LTV). You will lead live operations and be responsible for developing and executing hypothesis tests, interpreting the results, and delivering insights to make actionable recommendations. You're most at home when you're modeling your game metrics and using data to further refine the player experience.
This role will collaborate with the game director and producer(s) on the product roadmap and develop processes to ensure key milestones and product goals are achieved.
Responsibilities:
Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
Own the daily and weekly KPIs that drive revenue and LTV for live titlesAnalyze Live-Ops performance to develop and refine event, sales, and content strategiesDevelop and deliver reports to leads and publisher executives with clear recommendations on improvements supported by dataIdentify areas of opportunity for improving KPIs and help prioritize features to reach the product's goalsCollaborate with the team leads to set experimentation plan(s) using hypothesis-driven approachExecute variant testing and present test results/strategies to executives and partnersAnalyze feature performance and resultsSupport product leads with defining the direction and strategy of the productTear down and analyze features in successful competitive titles Requirements: Deep knowledge of engagement and monetization design to drive business KPIs in free-to-play gamesDirect experience owning KPIs in a high performing game that met or exceeded the genre benchmarks for retention and monetizationThrive in cross-functional team environments and communicate effectively with all departments: art, design, programming, and productionAbility to think strategically, tactically, and creativelyComfortable mining databases and extract key takeaways without the help of a dedicated analystExperience communicating and defending analytical insights to executive-level audiences to inform decision makingA self-starter: someone who is willing to step up and take charge to see their initiatives come to fruition Skills/Qualifications: Minimum of 2+ years Product Management experience on free-to-play (F2P) gamesExperience with data analysis and analytical decision makingUnderstanding of feature design and game economies for free-to-play mobile titlesExperience with titles both in development and in live operationsExperience running hypothesis testing and with general testing methodologiesExperience designing and documenting featuresStrong project management skills and a self-starter approach to delivering results Pluses: MBA or Engineering backgroundStrong passion for optimizing F2P mobile gamesSuper awesome at Excel and exposure to other data analysis softwareExperience in JIRA, Confluence, or comparable team collaboration applicationsExperience writing SQL queries