About the role
Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of player needs and behaviors and use it to drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for core gameplay mechanics and systems in order to achieve player, product, and business impact.
- Work with project and craft leaders to deliver player-focused gameplay elements including skill and mastery progression, creative execution, match dynamics and systems, and more.
- Maintain deep audience and player empathy to inform your strategic understanding opportunity spaces, specifically in competitive PVP genres.
- Contribute to the development of the game’s live operations strategy, while ensuring your team’s work streams are tightly aligned with the game’s plans for sustainable and best-in-class live operations.
- Operationalize your impact by ensuring your team's efforts and capabilities support the holistic product strategy, working closely with production.
- Partner tightly with central and game-team insights, research and analytics to ensure development in your area is informed hypothesis driven, supported by a wide range of player signals, and can be effectively validated and measured to inform learning and iteration.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional experience, of which 3+ is in a Product Management or Strategy role
- Deep understanding about the process of game development, the business of live service games, and how games get to market
- 3+ years experience leading or influencing cross-functional teams with excellent teamwork, team leadership, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management
- Ability to solve complex and ambiguous problems using first-principles strategic thinking, generating frameworks to enable rapid and effective decision making
- Experience conceptualizing, designing, and shipping core gameplay systems
- Meaningful familiarity with several of the following crafts: Revenue Strategy, Engagement Systems, Gameplay Mechanics and Experiences, Live Service & Lifecycle Management, Analytics, and Research.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working on a AAA game with global reach through development and launch
- Experience working on a live service game with significant live operations
Perks & Benefits
- Flexible work/life balance with an open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules
- Medical, dental, and life insurance
- Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
- 401k with company match
Compensation
- Base salary range between $185,200.00 - $258,000.00 USD (Los Angeles Only)
- Incentive compensation
- Equity
- Short and long-term disability