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Technical Product Manager
2 years ago
As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent. We’re searching for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
PERKS & BENEFITS
Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More
Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
Yoga & Wellness Activities
Happy Hours
Company Events
Dog Friendly
ABOUT THE ROLE
Jam City is searching for the best and brightest Technical Product Managers to work on a cutting edge Gaming Platform that will launch games and entertainment experiences the world has never seen before.
We’re looking for a smart, experienced Product Manager who thrives on the frontier of new product development. Breaking ground on novel products requires an artful balance between comfort with the fundamentals of drawing requirements from stakeholders, and knowing when to pitch brand new directions based on research and instinct.
Our “right fit” is someone who truly enjoys solving problems, and takes pride in delivering quality technical products that deliver outsized business outcomes. Our Product Manager must be at home with a Systems Thinking mindset.
Culturally, you enjoy exploring the deep technical nuances of delivering against product vision and features, while working productively side-by-side with a cast of Platform Architects, Engineers, Analysts, Data Scientists, and all around high performers. Our dream Technical PM will guide these talented individuals towards a common vision, and must adequately represent their expertise with Platform Stakeholders.
Our company and culture is geared towards producing the best quality games in the world and having fun while we do it. Jam City has a full team of in-house artists, designers, and game developers. Our core technology allows developers to plug into a scalable backend, flexible game frameworks, analytics and cross-platform methodologies. Jam City is growing, profitable, and has offices spread out internationally.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5 Years of Technical Product Management or Management/IT Consulting experience
- Technical or Analytical Degree is strongly preferred
- Fluent in Agile
- Fluent in Lean Product Development methodologies
- Proven and sustained delivery of complex Digital Products, either B2B, or B2C, across MVP & later delivery milestones: earlier in the cycle, the better.
SKILLS
- Classic PM Toolset of: Strategy, Ideation, Roadmapping, Feature Development, User Stories, Execution, Testing, Iteration
- Highly effective and efficient with written communication: Respectfully able to bring clarity of messaging, strong at distilling complex discussions into core elements
- Data-First Perspective: Intuitive at data processing and pipeline development. Data is gold, your products must treat it with this reverence.
- Adept at working with Engineering and Architecture counterparts. You are simultaneously their advocate and their guide; and critically, you understand when to act in either capacity.
NICE TO HAVE
- Skilled at competitor product breakdowns: Knowing when to pay attention to their features, and when not to
- Clearly talented at diplomacy, compassionate personal skills, and communication
- Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle within rapid iterative cycles
- Experience gathering requirements from key stakeholders and prioritizing them into small iterative features that can be used to provide rapid feedback loops
- Understanding of how to turn technical road maps into release plans that provide tangible business value in each delivery
- Ability to make data driven decisions when determining the scope and complexity of features to be delivered to end users
CHECK OUT LIFE AS A JAM CITIZEN:
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION
We believe in creating games that unite people across the world and that showcase our commitment to providing an environment that is both inclusive and diverse for our players and employees. We strive to create a workforce that is reflective of our global player community as we know that we are stronger and better when we play together. To help promote an inclusive culture, we celebrate the visible and invisible diversity of our Jam Citizens through initiatives including Employee Resource Groups, cultural events, trainings, speaker series, and more.
Jam City is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, marital, or domestic partnerships status, disability, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws. Our management is committed to following this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruiting, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.
ABOUT JAM CITY
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.
Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.
The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.
Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.
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