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Senior Product Manager, Growth

Pixelberry Studios is a top mobile games developer, creating fun and engaging games with heart for over nine years. We’re a division of Nexon, one of the Top 10 largest gaming companies in the world. Our studio is 3-for-3 launching games into the App Store's Top 25 Grossing chart. Our market-leading, award-winning mobile game, Choices: Stories You Play, broke into the Top 5 in the App Store. Our vision for success is based around innovative game design, diversity, and putting our players first!

We've seen firsthand the positive impact that games can make. Because of that, we leverage our commercial success to make a real difference: we have partnered with numerous non-profits, saved actual lives with our games, and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities. Players love our games’ focus on racial, gender, sexual, and identity diversity while holding us accountable when they expect more.

Some of us at Pixelberry have worked together for over 10 years through multiple companies. As a result, we strive to create long-term relationships that help sustain our success. We continue to add new individuals who aren’t just searching for another stepping stone but a place to put down roots and actively make a difference. We love what we do and are looking for passionate, like-minded people who want to grow, learn, and make a difference together.

SUMMARY OF POSITION

If you love storytelling, no matter if it is in books, manga or motives, come to check us out! We’re looking for an entrepreneurial-minded growth product manager to join our newest project, Storyloom - the next generation of interactive storytelling platform built upon our successful track records in mobile gaming. This platform’s vision is to empower professional, semi-professional and aspiring writers and artists globally to create exciting stories together that can entertain readers of all ages and backgrounds while benefiting from their creative and hard work. We are well positioned to bring exciting digital innovation to the publishing industry! Some of the innovative ideas could come from you!

Our headquarters are in Los Altos, CA but we can accommodate a remote work environment for a candidate from the following states: California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington.

Currently, all Pixelberry staff work remotely with the option to work in-office, if desired.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead organic user acquisition through in-product growth loops. You will partner with various cross-functional teams, including engineering, core product managers, marketing and data analytics to drive substantial user growth. Your role will be to develop a growth strategy, build a growth-driven roadmap, and iterate on strategy/roadmap continuously based on analytics and user feedback
• Define key in-product acquisition loops, including but not limited to referral loops, content loops, reward loops and partnership loops for user acquisition, and optimize every stage of these loops to maximize impact
• Draft business rationale, functional requirements and user stories of desired features with detailed measurable KPIs and collaborate with the production team to convert them into rolling quarterly growth roadmap
• Lead execution of growth roadmap and present post-mortem analysis to cross functional
  teams after each main feature rollout
• Continuously iterate on plans and motivate cross-functional teams to continuously improve upon targeted KPIs, e.g. user growth, conversion rates and retention rates
• Provide and present quarterly analysis of user acquisition best practices of competitive products or similar platforms to grow organizational knowledge in this area
• Potential people management opportunity as the platform scales and the team grows

REQUIREMENTS

• 4-8 years in product management or equivalent field delivering KPI-driven roadmap
• Prior experience innovating high-impact growth features for freemium products
• Structured and data driven approach in problem solving and critical thinking
• Excellent oral and written communication skills at all levels
• Entrepreneurial spirit- a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment, deals with ambiguity, and motivates cross-functional teams even without authority
• BA / BS or equivalent industry experience, Masters/MBA preferred

BONUS REQUIREMENTS

• Product management skills in live ops and data analysis
• Hands-on experience in A/B testing tools such as Optimizely, CleverTap/LeanPalm etc
• Experience in (and love for) narrative or interactive fiction games
• Experience in (and love for) casual and/or female-focused mobile games

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Competitive salary
• High level of autonomy and freedom
• Rich & flexible health, disability, and employee assistance offerings to meet the needs of a diverse workforce
• 401(K) with matching program
• Paid Year-End Break
• For local employees that elect to work in-studio, a relaxed office environment with free food and snacks
• Virtual escape rooms, video game nights, trivia parties, and other team-building activities throughout the year!

HOW THIS JOB IS DIFFERENT

• Learn about the business side of mobile games. Our team is very good at what we do.
• Good work/life balance. We are family-friendly and look at things in the long term.
• That warm fuzzy feeling that you’re not just making a difference at a company, but in the lives of people all over the world.

Pixelberry Studios values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, Black/BIPOC, LGBT individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. Pixelberry is also an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

Compensation Description for Pay Transparency (annually)

The salary range for the role is $115,000 - $160,000 per year.

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