First Contact is looking for an innovative Senior Product Manager to drive the studio’s live operation success and guide our future product strategy. The ideal candidate is a problem solver, a creative thinker, and is looking for a unique role at a studio building live experiences for next-generation consoles and VR.
Area
Production
Job Type
Location
Full Time
CA. USA
JOB DESCRIPTION
As the Snr Product Manager, you are immersed in live games from both a development and player perspective. You have a strong sense of how to link data and metrics with elegant, game-centric design solutions, leading to an engaging and successful player experience.
Partnering with Production and Design, you are able to clearly articulate areas of optimization, growth and success in order to build a feature and content roadmap for our titles that drives engagement and delivers successful monetization.
You architect and analyze a robust set of data and KPI’s for each title, partnering with studio leadership to identify clear success criteria and regularly report on progress.
You are passionate about the player experience and maintain clear insights into player needs and frustrations, guiding the team towards a product strategy that successfully engages and grows the playing community.
This position requires broad, interdisciplinary communication skills and the ability to mediate across multiple perspectives, unifying the team to meet clear and measurable objectives.
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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Define clear KPI’s and live operation goals for the studios titles
Define data sets for all aspects of a games operation, building valuable insights into our engagement and monetization success.
Create regular reports for studio leadership that clearly articulate current performance and highlight areas for growth or improvement.
Collaborate with Production and Design to establish product priorities, ensuring that effort and team workload is guided to meet product and business needs.
Work with the community and marketing team to ensure that player and community needs are well understood and communicated effectively.
Work with product teams to identify successful engagement and monetization strategies, ensuring that game specific economies and implementations are well balanced and meet player needs and expectations.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
3-5 years experience as a Product Manager in PC, mobile or console games.
Knowledge and expertise of gaming KPI’s, analytical models and reporting frameworks.
Proven fluency with large data sets and the ability to generate accessible and actionable insights
Expert understanding of in-game economies, tuning, balancing and optimizing for both engagement and monetization.
Proven success with building long-term player engagement and growth on at least 2 titles.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Expertise at generating written reports for business and creative leaders.
Experience and fluency with UX best practices and principles.
Deep, up-to-date knowledge of games as a service market, both on mobile and console.
HOW TO APPLY
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