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Sr. Product Manager – Games
Company | Yahoo |
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Location | United States |
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Salary | $120750 – $251250 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 4+ years as a Product Manager, with a focus on consumer experiences
- Strong understanding of consumer behavior, content consumption trends, and audience engagement in the digital media landscape.
- Experience in successfully leading product development initiatives from ideation to launch, demonstrating the ability to drive cross-functional teams and deliver exceptional results.
- Experience managing external stakeholder groups and partners.
- Experience delivering high-impact products using a deep knowledge of product management methodologies, including user-centered design, agile/scrum development, and data-driven decision-making.
- Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex concepts and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Proactive and self-motivated, with a passion for innovation and a keen eye for detail.
- Experience in A/B testing, data analysis, and using analytics tools to derive actionable insight and make informed decisions.
- Experience delivering products using Agile / Scrum software development & Engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Developing a product strategy and roadmap for our games portfolio, regularly evolving it to ensure it aligns with company goals and objectives.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand content strategy and aligning game offerings with audience preferences, engagement metrics and new content surfaces.
- Partnering external game developers to ensure a quality user experience and ideate on new features and initiatives to improve engagement and retention.
- Identifying opportunities to surface games throughout the broader Yahoo ecosystem, using personalization to improve CTR on ecosystem entry points to games.
- Advocating for the user, through a crisp understanding of customer interactions, user feedback, competitive analyses, market research and experimentation.
- Build dashboards to track gameplay engagement metrics, monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), analyze data, and provide actionable insights and recommendations for improvement.
- Working closely with design and engineering to define and prioritize feature requirements; evaluate trade-offs and technical constraints; and consistently deliver timely, high-quality solutions.
- Leading an agile scrum team to deliver value for customers quickly while iterating towards the long-term vision.
- Staying updated with game industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in games and media product management.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in games is preferred, but passion for games is a requirement.
- Familiarity with international data privacy regulations is a plus.