Lead Product Manager

Jam City•Carlsbad, CA

28d

About The Position

Jam City is seeking a Lead Product Manager to support Cookie Jam, one of its flagship titles. The role involves managing a Free-to-Play game, using data to inform strategic roadmap decisions, and delivering exceptional player experiences while driving business outcomes. The Lead Product Manager will have a direct impact on the success of Cookie Jam by making decisions, understanding the "Game as a Business Strategy" to maximize ROI, and defining/maintaining in-game offers, sales, promotional events, and new content/features to achieve KPI goals. The ideal candidate is passionate about casual and puzzle games, skilled in data analysis and reporting for live ops decisions and product prioritization, agile in managing projects independently in a fast-evolving, data-driven company, and possesses strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with Producers, Designers, and Engineers.

Requirements

5+ years experience in Product Management, Business Intelligence or related role in the F2P games industry.
Excellent analytical and quantitative skills with a focus on data-driven decision making.
Gaming or comparable industry experience.
Thrives in an entrepreneurial environment with a creative problem solving mindset.
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 studio leadership in developing an optimum roadmap for future features based on evolving game needs.

Responsibilities

Key stakeholder and decision-maker for feature prioritization, in combination with other crafts.
Identifies and designs/improves features to improve key indicators, by making our games more engaging.
Manages LiveOps, in game events & sales to maximize revenue and keep players engaged through balancing and optimizations.
Analyze data, build automated reports, and work with the Analytics team to make informed business decisions.
Work closely with game teams to identify, test and measure high-impact product changes that drive growth in revenue, reach and retention.
Identify tools and reporting, working with technical teams, to design, implement and improve through rapid iteration.
Understand game metrics to inform hypotheses and create A/B testing experiments with clear and measurable success criteria.
Effectively communicates relevant KPIs and updates to key stakeholders in a timely fashion.