Job Description

Magnopus is a content-focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We're passionate about creating rich experiences across the physical and digital worlds in ways people haven't experienced yet.

Because we're building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits.

We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor teamwork more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to join our product team to manage interactive experiences. Our product team collaborates across all Magnopus teams to enable our customers to create, publish, and operate engaging Connected Spaces around the world. We are building a platform to unite the physical and digital worlds for everyone to experience. This is an exciting opportunity to help define the future of human interaction and commerce in the spatial web and the emerging metaverse(s).

As a Senior Product Manager you will help define and build new capabilities for our core platform that will make it simple for non-technical customers to easily create interactive 3D, AR, and VR experiences for their audiences across all leading devices and platforms. At Magnopus, Product Managers are the leaders of the features they build, and closely collaborate with engineering, design, professional services, and business development to set product strategy, manage the feature roadmap, and deliver great customer experiences.

A successful candidate will have high empathy for customers, have a talent for making the complex simple, and be highly skilled at integrating diverse technologies, products, and services into products that customers love. The ideal candidate will combine big picture innovative thinking with the attention to detail and technical knowledge required to launch sophisticated features into an emerging market. They will be able to garner support and input across the organization and be able to build fruitful relationships with external partners and industry influencers.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for the tools to empower creators of all skill levels to create and publish interactive experiences in Connected Spaces in 3D AR, and VR across mobile, web, desktop, Oculus and other AR/XR/VR platforms including the imminent smart glasses category of devices. Our customers range from software developers with specialist technical requirements to non-technical users who need a one click solution to launch their spaces. Your success will be measured on a) the versatility of the capabilities we can deliver to both our technical and non-technical customers, b) our customers' success and ROI, and c) the quality of technical design decisions and tradeoffs.

The metaverse is coming. Join us to make sure it is inclusive, experience rich, and open for everyone to create and enjoy. We are small, with ~150 employees in the US and the UK, but we punch above our weight class, check out our website to find out more. Come build the future with us.

Requirements:

Baseline

• 7+ years of technical product management, program management or engineering leadership experience in a startup and/or high ambiguity environment
• 2+ years of experience with end to end product or significant feature delivery for either a SaaS platform, 3D/game/interaction editing tool, or ‘no code' product.
• Experience leading engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
• Experience owning product roadmap and strategy.
• Experience owning feature delivery, prioritization, and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience driving UX experiments to drive customer engagement and product decision making
• Experience managing the backlog for >20 engineers across multiple timezones (UK/US)
• Bachelor's Degree

Bonus Points

• Powerful ability to deeply understand customer needs and translate them into an actionable product roadmap.
• Experimental mindset. Always curious about how to ask better questions? How to find signals in the noise? How to validate assumptions? How to move and learn faster? And how to create value and delight customers?
• Multidisciplinary leader able to achieve results across local and remote teams of engineers, designers, business development, marketing, and external partners.
• The ability to think big and dive into the details, and the wisdom to choose when to use each to drive performance.
• Technical literacy to be able to collaborate with senior engineers and architects to design solutions, make technical tradeoffs, and problem solve. Be the domain expert for the technical aspects of product and features.
• Strong product and market knowledge of AR, VR, 3D Interactive products, and/or digital content creation.
• Experience using Unreal, Unity, or other 3D engines/toolkits..
• Experience developing no-code/non technical user features.
• Engineering or 3D artist background.

This role is based out of our head office in DTLA (downtown Los Angeles) with minimal travel requirements. Flexible work from home is offered, however we are expecting key product team members to meet in person at least once a week. Pending safe COVID protocols.

Though we've delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:

• Mission:ISS
• Disney Pixar Coco VR
• Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab
• The Lion King - Virtual Production
• Elixir

Benefits:

Magnopus employees enjoy a competitive benefits package as well as some amazing perks:

• Meaningful, purpose-driven work
• Great teammates
• 100% employer paid premiums on health, dental, and vision Insurance
• Flexible Remote working plans (particularly during Covid events)
• Top of the line tech and tools
• Comfy office chairs and stand-up desks
• Free Onsite gym access (located in our building)
• Transportation assistance
• Magnocademy (our peer learning program)
• Lunch clubs (including D&D, board games, and knitting)
• On-site happy hours
• Range of complimentary snacks and drinks