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Product Manager - AR Platform
27 days ago
Are you passionate about bringing augmented reality (AR) experiences to life in the real world? Join our innovative team and help redefine how real-world AR content is captured, created, and distributed.
As a Product Manager for our AR Platform, you will lead the development of tools and technologies that enable users to easily capture, create, and share AR experiences tied to real-world locations. Your role will be crucial in bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds, making AR content creation and distribution accessible to creators, studios, and consumers.
Responsibilities:
- Develop the vision and strategy for our real-world AR content platform.
- Lead the product development of AR capture tools, content creation interfaces, and distribution systems.
- Contribute to company-wide planning for new product and feature development/deployment.
- Partner closely with engineers to communicate priorities, objectives, and the product vision.
- Define requirements, schedules and coordinate team members to deliver projects on time.
- Track priorities, critical tasks, and metrics to measure success.
- Direct product launches in coordination with marketing and go-to-market teams.
- Gather and analyze user feedback to continuously improve the AR content creation and distribution experience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
- Required in-office 5 days per week.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business, Computer Science, Engineering.
- 2+ years of product management, project management, or relevant technical experience.
- Strong technical skills to understand engineering designs, challenges and tradeoffs.
- Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Excellent communication abilities to articulate sophisticated AR concepts to various stakeholders.
- Excellent collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Experience writing requirements, roadmaps, schedules, and managing stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to successfully engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others.
Plus If…
- Experience building Augmented Reality experiences
- Familiarity with 3D modeling, computer vision, and content creation tools
- Passion for empowering, uplifting, and celebrating team members
- Experience with community-driven content platforms or marketplaces
The total compensation package for this position includes a new hire offer base salary range of $153,900 - $204,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
Individual pay within this salary range is determined by work location and additional factors, including assessed job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can answer any questions about new hire total compensation during the hiring process. An overview of benefit offerings for your location can be found on the careers page.
Join the Niantic team!
Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.
We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.
Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.
We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zurich. #LI-HYBRID
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