Job Description

Special Note to Candidates: If everything about this job looks great except the location, DAM still encourages you to submit because we are actively trying to fill other mid, senior and executive PM roles throughout the United States and Canada as well as fully Remote options.

Additional DAM Insight

• 40-employee VR FPS Game Developer w/ 3 shipped VR games on UE4
• Recently built out a new 15k sq ft development studio
• Working on Next-Gen VR Headsets
• Very strong work/life balance

Location

• Greater Los Angeles Area, CA

Job Type

• Permanent, Full-time Employment (Onsite Only)

Summary

We are 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.

As the Senior 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.

Responsibilities

• Define clear KPI’s and live operation goals for the studio’s titles
• Define data sets for all aspects of a game’s 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

Requirements

• 5+ years of 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