About the role
At Playsimple Games, we're looking for an Associate Product Manager to oversee the entire product lifecycle and drive the success of our games. This is a hands-on leadership role with end-to-end ownership of the product roadmap.
Responsibilities:
- Full Product Lifecycle Management: Oversee the entire product lifecycle, including product vision, competitive analysis, requirements gathering, feature prioritization, spec writing, roadmap management, and partner alignment.
- Strategy and Collaboration: Develop and drive product strategy and specifications. Collaborate with game teams to achieve product success.
- Performance Metrics: Define how to measure the success and effectiveness of products. Utilize qualitative consumer insights and quantitative data to inform product decisions and build a strong business rationale.
- Customer Needs and Feedback: Build a product vision by deeply understanding customer needs. Partner closely with product and engineering leaders on game teams to create feedback loops for continued improvements and identify patterns of need across Playsimple Games.
- Integration Recommendations: Work closely with product and engineering leads on game teams to understand their unique needs and recommend optimal integration pathways.
- Team Development: Experience in training and managing a team of product managers and business analysts, fostering their professional development.
- Product Evangelism: Clearly articulate the value of our products and how they address the challenges faced by our customers.
- Competitive Analysis: Identify and deconstruct competitive offerings in the market. Formulate insights and use them to guide future roadmap direction.
- Team Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and design teams in Central Technology to drive improvements and foster a positive team culture.
Requirements:
- Experience: 2+ years of product management experience in digital products, games, or mobile apps.
- Experience with Consumer Products: Prior experience with web/mobile consumer products, user acquisition, and growth strategy is highly desirable.
- Product Management Expertise: Proven expertise in building great products that meet customer needs.
- Strategic Judgment: Strong product judgment, ability to formulate product strategy, and presenting clear, measurable objectives that align with business goals.
- Data-Driven Principles: Experience with lean, data-driven principles to enhance product development. Some experience with data analytics and SQL is preferred.
- Project Management: Excellent project management skills with the ability to present work to executive staff effectively.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in creating wireframes, product specifications, and white papers.
- Communication and Organization: Outstanding written and oral communication skills, organizational abilities, analytical skills, and attention to detail.
- Self-Starter and Team Player: A driven self-starter with a proactive attitude.