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Product Manager
3 years ago
Here at Playco, we make games that bring the world closer together through play!
Our ideal teammates are thoughtful, low ego, and hardworking professionals who can both zoom into the details and zoom out to embrace the big picture. We are passionate about makers and tinkerers, who are unafraid to experiment with a healthy disregard for constraints. We hope you'll enrich our team with your enthusiasm and passion, both for games and for life.
About this Role:
Our Product Managers are creative problem-solvers who leverage data to understand product and platform health and use those insights to define new game functionality. You will write and review specs, then work closely with our engineers and artists to direct the development process throughout our products’ lifecycles, surfacing learnings along the way to inform the design iteration process. Your prior experience shipping successful mobile games as a Product Manager, Producer or Game Designer provides you with an inherent understanding of experiences that create user delight in moving forward our mission of “bringing the world closer together through play.”
Responsibilities
- Create features and flows to increase payer conversion and retention.
- Manage in-game economy including pricing, sales and seasonal content.
- Design A/B and multivariate tests to optimize features.
- Research and deconstruct the most successful games on the market to discover what makes them fun.
- Be the champion of your products; with clarity and forethought, guide your team to market and beyond.
- Pitch exciting new game concepts internally and to our partners around the world.
- Help lead a team of creators to build the best games possible.
- Lead your team to deliver on time and to spec, while looking to improve the overall development process along the way.
Requirements
- At least two years experience working as a product manager, preferably in the gaming industry.
- Must have experience managing products from concept to launch.
- Must be very analytical and comfortable dealing with ambiguous data.
- Ability to balance metric-based decision making.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
Bonus
- BS/BA in quantitative fields is a plus (CS, EE, Econ, Finance).
- Verbal and written communication skills in Japanese.
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