Senior Product Manager job

company building Jam City location Culver City, CA
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Company Description

Jam City is an entertainment firm that provides unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to broad audiences. Chris DeWolfe and Josh Yguado founded Jam City in 2009, and its headquarter is based in Culver City, California, United States. The company designs, develops and publishes social, mobile games worldwide. Jam City has developed immersive, rich storyline mobile games around popular entertainment brands, including Marvel Avengers, Family Guy, and Harry Potter. The firm owns studios in San Francisco, Las Angeles, San Diego, Buenos Aires, and Bogota. Jam City employs an experienced team known for its creative excellence and technological innovation in major areas, including data science, storytelling, and audience insights. The company provides unlimited vacations, a 401k plan, medical, training and development, happy hours, company events, and catered launches to its employees.

Job Description

As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to "level up" our talent. We're searching for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

PERKS & BENEFITS

Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays

100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan

Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More

Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens

Yoga & Wellness Activities

Happy Hours

Company Events

Dog Friendly

ABOUT THE ROLE

Jam City is looking for a Senior Product Manager to work on an established Match-3 Puzzle game. As a Senior Product Manager, you will be a critical member of the team, leading product strategy, live operations, and feature roadmap efforts. Working closely with Design, Production, and other key stakeholders, you will manage the end-to-end player experience to maximize ROI and player satisfaction. Your data-informed decisions and competitor insights will directly impact the game's success as you continue to improve the game's KPIs through feature development and best-in-class live ops planning and execution. You should have experience driving growth in a successful F2P mobile game. You will work closely with and provide direction to Game Designers, Data Analysts, Producers, and Engineers.

The ideal candidate is passionate about casual free-to-play mobile games. This person can pull, analyze, and report data from the game, and use this to inform effective business decisions. They have the agility to manage projects on their own and understand how they work in a fast evolving, data driven company. They have the people skills to work smoothly and communicate effectively with Producers, Designers, and Engineers.

RESPONSIBILITIES
    • Work closely with game teams to identify, test and measure high-impact product changes that drive growth in revenue, reach and retention.
    • Manage end-to-end liveops strategy and execution to hit monthly revenue goals via both supply and demand side monetization tactics.
    • Design and iterate features to improve key indicators, by making our games more engaging.
    • Analyze game data and build automated reports alongside Analytics and Data Science counterparts to make data-informed business decisions.
    • Identify tools and reporting needs to enable proper game health monitoring and feature efficacy.
    • Understand game metrics to inform hypotheses and create A/B testing experiments with clear and measurable success criteria.
    • Work with Marketing, Community, and Consumer Insights teams to coordinate and evangelize in-game communication and align these efforts to broader external marketing initiatives.
    • Manage and help grow junior Product talent
    • Effectively communicates relevant KPIs, updates and general game health to key stakeholders in a timely fashion.
QUALIFICATIONS
    • Bachelors or Masters Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field.
    • 3-5+ years of experience in Product Management, Business Intelligence or related role in the F2P mobile games industry.
    • Excellent analytical and quantitative skills with a focus on data-driven decision making; the ability to derive conclusions from data and clearly communicate findings is critical.
    • Thrives in an entrepreneurial environment with a creative problem solving mindset.
    • Can work independently and manage a complete project from concept to completion.
    • Experience writing SQL queries and distilling complex analysis into actionable insights or willingness to learn.
    • Self-starter with experience managing projects from concept through completion. Outstanding communication and organizational skills.
    • Must be able to understand and diagnose the economy of the game, driving healthy behavioral metrics.
    • Must be able to work closely with game leadership in developing an optimum roadmap for future features based on evolving game needs.
    • Passion for all things games.
NICE TO HAVE
    • In-depth knowledge on how data pipelines work
    • Has managed direct reports in the past
    • Experience working on Match 3 or Puzzle games
    • Live operations experience


CHECK OUT LIFE AS A JAM CITIZEN:

- Company news and events on our LinkedIn

- Company Blog

- Employee Feedback on our Comparably page

- Find videos on our teams and games on our Youtube

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION

We believe in creating games that unite people across the world and that showcase our commitment to providing an environment that is both inclusive and diverse for our players and employees. We strive to create a workforce that is reflective of our global player community as we know that we are stronger and better when we play together. To help promote an inclusive culture, we celebrate the visible and invisible diversity of our Jam Citizens through initiatives including Employee Resource Groups, cultural events, trainings, speaker series, and more.

Jam City is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, marital, or domestic partnerships status, disability, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws. Our management is committed to following this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruiting, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

ABOUT JAM CITY

Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.

Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City's global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.

The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company's popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.

Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.
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Minimum $85,790
$108,881 average
Maximum $130,289

Tasks

  • Identify, develop, or evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors.
  • Formulate, direct, or coordinate marketing activities or policies to promote products or services, working with advertising or promotion managers.
  • Evaluate the financial aspects of product development, such as budgets, expenditures, research and development appropriations, or return-on-investment and profit-loss projections.
  • Develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction.
  • Compile lists describing product or service offerings.
  • Direct the hiring, training, or performance evaluations of marketing or sales staff and oversee their daily activities.
  • Consult with product development personnel on product specifications such as design, color, or packaging.
  • Use sales forecasting or strategic planning to ensure the sale and profitability of products, lines, or services, analyzing business developments and monitoring market trends.
  • Negotiate contracts with vendors or distributors to manage product distribution, establishing distribution networks or developing distribution strategies.
  • Coordinate or participate in promotional activities or trade shows, working with developers, advertisers, or production managers, to market products or services.
  • Initiate market research studies or analyze their findings.
  • Confer with legal staff to resolve problems, such as copyright infringement or royalty sharing with outside producers or distributors.
  • Consult with buying personnel to gain advice regarding the types of products or services expected to be in demand.
  • Consult with buying personnel to gain advice regarding environmentally sound or sustainable products.
  • Conduct economic or commercial surveys to identify potential markets for products or services.
  • Recommend modifications to products, packaging, production processes, or other characteristics to improve the environmental soundness or sustainability of products.
  • Advise business or other groups on local, national, or international factors affecting the buying or selling of products or services.
  • Select products or accessories to be displayed at trade or special production shows.
  • Develop business cases for environmental marketing strategies.
  • Integrate environmental information into product or company marketing strategies, policies, or activities.

Skills

  • Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
  • Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
  • Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
  • Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Learning Strategies - Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
  • Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
  • Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
  • Persuasion - Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
  • Negotiation - Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
  • Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
  • Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Operations Analysis - Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
  • Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
  • Systems Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
  • Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
  • Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

Knowledge

  • Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
  • Clerical - Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
  • Economics and Accounting - Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  • Sales and Marketing - Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  • Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  • Design - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  • Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  • Education and Training - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
  • English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
  • Communications and Media - Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
  • Life Insurance
  • Vacation & Paid Time Off
  • Commuter Checks & Assistance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401K Plan
  • Health Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Dental Insurance
  • Stock Options
  • Sick Days

Jam City

Description

Jam City is an entertainment firm that provides unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to broad audiences. Chris DeWolfe and Josh Yguado founded Jam City in 2009, and its headquarter is based in Culver City, California, United States. The company designs, develops and publishes social, mobile games worldwide. Jam City has developed immersive, rich storyline mobile games around popular entertainment brands, including Marvel Avengers, Family Guy, and Harry Potter. The firm owns studios in San Francisco, Las Angeles, San Diego, Buenos Aires, and Bogota. Jam City employs an experienced team known for its creative excellence and technological innovation in major areas, including data science, storytelling, and audience insights. The company provides unlimited vacations, a 401k plan, medical, training and development, happy hours, company events, and catered launches to its employees.
Type

Company - Private

Size

Medium

Revenue

$50M to $100M

Location

3562 Eastham Dr.Culver City, CA, 90232and others

Industry

Arts/Entertainment/PublishingManufacturing/Mechanical/Mining

Founded

2010

Website

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