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Product Manager

Job Description

About the Organization

Ubisoft is a leading creator, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and services, with a rich portfolio of world-renowned brands. The teams throughout Ubisoft's worldwide network of studios and business offices are committed to delivering original and memorable gaming experiences across all popular platforms.Ubisoft Pune is proud to be one of the most creative video game studios in India. The studio was established in in 2008 and today it’s becomes more than 1000 talented employees ranging many areas of expertise and growing unit which specializes in console and mobile game development, quality control and web services.

We favor diversity, creativity, drive and team spirit. If you have the skills and the desire to succeed, we want you to be a part of this exciting period of growth.

Position’s objectives

As a Product Manager for mobile, you will be responsible for the Live Operations of our Rocksmith brand.

Working in Pune Studio, as part of the Mobile Studio Leadership and in coordination with game designers, you will participate in driving and executing the Marketing & Business objectives for our games. You will collaborate closely with the Producer locally and remotely with the brand Live Producer & Marketing team in San Francisco and Osaka.

Your main responsibilities are to elaborate the Live Ops mobile roadmap with the main stakeholders, and then to plan and to assign tasks to members of the Live Ops squad (Game Designers, Engineers, Artists and Data Analyst) and to monitor their progress to ensure tasks are performed as outlined in the project roadmap (and as per targeted KPI). Finally, you will analyze the performance of the game with regards to the financial objectives (P&L) and suggest data-driven roadmap improvements.

Additionally, you have the passion for music and love jamming in your spare time!

Name of the job: Product Manager

**Note**: Final Designation / Level will be decided based on the relevant experience and interview ratings

Your Responsibilities:

• P&L ownership (Live forecasts and keep up with the targets)
• Game Features (responsible for several streams - economy Balancing, promotions, new features, optimizations and to improve the AERM KPIs)
• Game Analysis (collaboration with game data analyst and leverage data to monitor game's performance and recommend AB tests and solutions to optimize the mechanics, inputs for new features to improve the player engagement, retention and monetization)
• Project management (Agile, JIRA)
• Team collaboration
• Communication (regular updates to all the stakeholders)
• Market research

Planning:

• Construct forecast models to match live operations schedules with financial targets (KPI)
• Collaborate with game designers to develop acquisition, retention and monetization based on Market Research.
• Define the Limited Time Events (LTE) and the Sales & Promotion strategy inside the game
• Develop roadmap, plan resources and assign them properly to ensure live operations’ milestones quality, timings and goals are always respected
• Challenge features documentation so they always convey the product vision and are in line with business objectives and target KPIs, in close collaboration with Game Design teams
• Challenge economy and in-game balancing in order to optimize business performance
• Identify and evaluate new business opportunities and game ideas within the relevant genre to deliver growth whilst making a positive player impact

Execution:

• Manage a cross-functional production team in order to deliver incredibly compelling, high quality live operations
• Develop release milestones for all the functional areas of live operations and ensure that sprint builds quality, timings and goals are always respected
• Define, set and track user stories through project management tool used (i.e. JIRA), following short term objectives set with the Studio Managers, the Live-Producer and the project Leads
• Deploy, help improve, and advocate all the production processes and pipelines put in place, through direct communication with the team and the Producer
• Maintain a friendly atmosphere and a high level of engagement and motivation in the team
• Manage, when required, relationships with co-dev and third-party studios
• Work hand in hand with QA to triage game issues to deliver a flawless game to the end-user
• Coordinate and set up the various in-game communication tools (assets creation, push notifications, ...) working with the Marketing & Community Management teams
• Coordinate relationship with Head Quarter Production team

Analysis:

• Manage the P & L for the assigned Product(s) and verify Analytics to determine Key Performance Indicators. Also, Lead Analytics goals and requirements along with the Data Analyst and drive the planning and execution to meet reporting and KPI goals.
• Analyze and Procure ROI centric data to drive product decisions and strategies to achieve KPIs, while maintaining the engagement and retention levels of the consumers and ensuring a smooth ‘Games-as-a-Service’ process for customer facing.
• Monitor and report on the performance of LTEs, Sales & Promotion, and new features, in close collaboration with Business Intelligence teams
• Support other Producers to influence the short term and long-term feature roadmaps by surfacing unmet player and admin needs, thanks to your knowledge of in-game data
• Proactively communicate on game performance within the whole team to ensure they are spending their time and energy on the right areas
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the quality of the game, the productivity of the teams and the efficiency of production processes
• Analyze competitors and perform benchmarking to suggest trendy events and new features

Qualifications & Eligibility criteria

• 5+ years’ experience as Product Manager or Live Producer in the mobile game industry (with at least 2 mobile games xp)
• Strong knowledge in business and economics. Degree in Mathematics/Statistics recommended
• Strong interest for the marketing field n the video game or entertainment sectors
• Experience managing a cross functional team of 10+ members
• Strong project management skills & fluent with Agile methodology
• Good knowledge and experience of online media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills topped by high persuasion skills & strong analytical skills
• Fluent in English
• [Nice to have] Passionate about music and playing at least one instrument

Ubisoft India is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all interested parties. The studio welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. We thank you for your interest, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. No agencies please.