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Senior Product Manager
2 years ago
You are passionate about everything relating to games, data, with a breadth of knowledge in the world of business, and know how to bridge that into a cohesive vision. You possess a mix of strategic skills and creative instinct that can help create action plans, feature sets, and content strategies that benefit our players. In addition, you are motivated by continuously driving for improvements and making informed decisions through a data-driven approach.
Are you who we’re looking for? Read on!
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our growing team. In this role, you will work directly with our game teams to help and create the most engaging and rewarding product and live service experience for our players. You are dedicated to figuring out what players want, how they behave in the game, and most importantly, why. From there, you will transform the insights from data and work with the game teams to create actionable product roadmaps.
You are expected to:
- Represent the customer/player in all game development and live operations decisions, be the voice of the player to the game team using an intimate understanding of player motivations
- Translate strategic directives into goals that can be monitored and drive strategy around achieving results through the associated KPIs
- Co-develop a comprehensive in-app event and monetization strategy with a design that gives users engaging things to do each day and supports planned feature releases
- Proactively identify issues, optimizations, and feature implementations/improvements to maximize the player experience and business performance
- Have the ability to do detailed deconstructions of popular game features and their monetization mechanics to influence decisions to incorporate these trends or not
- Monitors the state and evolution of technologies affecting the game industry
- Coordinates with Project Management to establish schedules and plans
- Supports Lead/Director Product Managers by executing a variety of tasks related to product development
- Work closely with stakeholders to conceptualize and implement features, mechanics, systems, and modalities of play that fulfill business goals
- Communicate with the data team to prioritize asks and conduct in-depth Evaluation of in-game trends using data insights to impact top-line KPIs
- Partner with stakeholders to establish and maintain an experimentation roadmap, using A/B testing and machine learning techniques, to meet goals and create product/player insight. Translate outcomes into actionable recommendations
- Creates roadmaps for owned products in coordination with the team
- Is the "go-to" resource for other teams for your products and features
- Consulted for advice on processes, relationships, and tactical moves
- Meet regularly with business and game team stakeholders to communicate plans and address their concerns/requests
- Evaluate feature requests
- Ensures features meet the creative standards set by the product vision
- Keep abreast of and understand gaming and market trends, business models, and player preferences across all genres, platforms, territories, and demographics
- Possesses strong analytical and communication skills
You will bring:
- Experience: 3-5+ years in Product Management; Direct experience in all development phases. Experience in gaming is a big plus!
- Communication: Communicates in a clear, concise, and professional manner with staff at all levels; achieves team consent and buy-in; adapts communication style to the audience; explains difficult situations clearly
- Collaboration: Collaborates effectively with others in the same discipline, across feature groups, and cross-discipline regularly
- Teamwork: Builds trusted relationships with team members across disciplines and the company, inspires and encourages teamwork
- Industry: Solid gaming trend and market knowledge plus a drive to continue to grow this knowledge
Excited by this opportunity? We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us.
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in North America, including Vancouver and Montreal in Canada, and Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
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