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Product Manager, Integration
2 years ago
About Skillz:
Skillz is driving the future of entertainment by accelerating the convergence of sports, video games and media for an exploding mobile-first audience worldwide. The company’s platform empowers mobile game developers and players with democratized access to fun, fair and skill-based competition for real prizes , shifting the paradigm to make eSports accessible to anyone, anywhere with a mobile device.
Skillz helps developers build multi-million dollar game franchises by turning content into competitive social gaming properties for the world’s 2.6 billion gamers. The company has already worked with 13,000 game developers, leveraging its patented technology to host over 800 million tournaments for 18 million players worldwide.
This year, Skillz was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies and CNBC Disruptor 50 (for the second time ). In 2018, Skillz was listed as one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups and Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Brilliant Companies . In 2017, Inc. Magazine ranked Skillz the No. 1 fastest-growing private company in America .
The company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports luminaries, ranging from Liberty Global, Accomplice, Wildcat Capital, Telstra Ventures, and a founder of Great Hill Partners to the owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets, and Sacramento Kings.
Who we're looking for:
Our product development team sets the vision for Skillz. Skillz is a mobile e-sport gaming platform where players compete for real world prizes by playing their favorite mobile games. Skillz has enabled hundreds of games to add competitive dynamics for real world prizes to create entirely new play experiences, opportunities for monetization and a new way to make e-sports more inclusive for everyone. Our Developer Console enables thousands of developers to integrate the Skillz platform into their games and help the developers build vibrant businesses through dynamic services.
The Product Manager for the Developer Console will own a variety of key features to enable efficient self-serve experience for developers to achieve success on the Skillz platform. Features include but are not limited to game integration, game progression, game analytics, campaign tools etc. The PM will also work closely with our marketing team to create an engaging and loyal developer community and help establish our developer evangelism program. This position will focus more on building out integration flow with our developers and helping improve the onboarding and experience.
What you'll do as a PM at Developer Experience:
- Lead the product development team to build features to enable self-serve efficiency of our developers
- Lead the product development team to grow and engage our developer community
- Create wireframes, write user stories and specifications and present recommendations for new features in our ever evolving platform
- Perform analysis to optimize feature performance and propose product rollout plans to deliver improvements to our web products
- Oversee the research, data gathering and studies required to produce thoughtful product evolutions
- Maintain processes to ensure documentation, reports and plans are accurate and complete
- Work alongside teammates who care about building great products as much as you do
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in product management, product development, management consulting, quantitative analysis or similar field
- Degree in math, statistics, engineering, computer science, economics or other quantitative field
- Ability to approach complex problems and transform them into simple and elegant solutions
- Understanding of data analysis and using testing methods to inform decisions
- Strong communication skills and comfortable liaising between technical and non-technical partners
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to respond to feedback and implement ideas in a changing environment
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