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Senior Director of Product

Senior Director of Product

About ForeVR Games

ForeVR Games ( https://www.forevrgames.com/ ) is a VR gaming startup backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and Galaxy Interactive and led by Marcus Segal (former COO of Zynga’s Game Studio) and Mike Doom (EA, Zynga, Lionsgate). The company’s mission is to create social games that leverage the immersive potential of VR to connect people of all ages in play.

ForeVR Games has released ForeVR Bowl and ForeVR Darts to rave reviews and is now ramping up to deliver a portfolio of hits each year. The company is a distributed team with the majority of its employees located in the U.S. Find out more about what we’re working on at https://www.forevrgames.com/main-news .

The Role:

You are a highly motivated, strategic problem solver interested in building your product management department from the ground up. Reporting to the CEO, you will partner with the studio leadership team to develop and align strategy and goals that inform game designs, marketing promotions, and content roadmaps. To thrive in this position, you will need to demonstrate an exceptional ability to lead product initiatives from start-to-finish, ideate product opportunities that will complement business and revenue goals, while identifying market conditions and emerging trends to help capitalize the game’s success.

Role Responsibilities

• Build the product management team, process, and standards for highly social VR single purchase titles along with free to play and download content
• Set VR game goals and targets in partnership with the CEO, CCO, VP of Production and Director of Marketing
• Collaborate with the CCO, a small team of product managers and game designers to help define product vision and strategy
• Devise a product development roadmap setting the overall cadence for production
• Oversee the product lifecycle process, drive product level changes and communicate those changes to your team in order to attain maximum business results
• Analyze game metrics to provide key insights into product performance to uncover opportunities for sustained engagement, retention, growth, user enjoyment, and future monetization
• Coordination of project development statuses with each team’s producers as it relates to deadlines, productivity goals, and milestones

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a senior-level product manager or senior-level digital producer leading significant cross-organizational projects
• Experience leading and or building a team of product managers/producers driving key business objectives
• Highly strategic and analytical mindset with the ability to also think creatively
• Experience in setting requirements for metrics and dashboard for a live service
• Experience in a high tech/software engineering or game design setting and can quickly get up to speed on the distinctive nature of our system architecture
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize requirements across a multi-disciplinary workspace
• Experience launching a Free to Play Mobile title
• Exceptional time management and planning skills, organized with the ability to multitask, exceptional follow up skills and able to meet deadlines
• Excellent written, verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational sense and process-driven mentality
• Strong managerial skills with the ability to lead and support cross-functional teams