Product Manager, PLAY

USA TODAY Co.

2d • Remote

About The Position

USA TODAY Co., Inc. is a diversified media company with expansive reach at the national and local level dedicated to empowering and enriching communities. We seek to inspire, inform, and connect audiences as a sustainable, growth focused media and digital marketing solutions company. Through our trusted brands, including the USA TODAY NETWORK, comprised of the national publication, USA TODAY, and local media organizations, including our network of local properties, in the United States, and Newsquest, a wholly-owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom, we provide essential journalism, local content, and digital experiences to audiences and businesses. We deliver high-quality, trusted content with a commitment to balanced, unbiased journalism, where and when consumers want to engage. Our digital marketing solutions brand, LocaliQ, supports small and medium-sized businesses with innovative digital marketing products and solutions. USA TODAY Co. open roles are featured on various external job boards. When applying to a position at USA TODAY Co., you should be completing an application on USA TODAY Co. Careers via Dayforce. Job postings directing you to complete an application on other external sites may not be valid. To connect with us, visit www.usatodayco.com
Our USA TODAY PLAY games experience has a highly engaged following and broad audience reach with its challenging and inclusive daily crosswords and other puzzles. We are looking for a product management professional to help develop our rapidly expanding portfolio. You will add new capabilities and features to optimize the playing experience on existing games and will develop new puzzles and games to delight our current players and attract new ones. You’ll report to the Director of Product, Games Experience, and partner with leaders across the organization, including Marketing, Data Intelligence, Engineering, and UX, to build and execute an ambitious roadmap centered on exponentially growing our portfolio and audience. The ideal candidate will be passionate not just about games but about creating great product experiences that deliver impact to business and audience goals. He/she will have a bias toward action, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. The ideal candidate will be as passionate about crafting great products as they are about setting a new high score.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience
• Bachelor's degree
• An ability to address both user and business needs, creating product solutions.
• Deep experience with agile software development methodology.
• Firm understanding of relevant web design and development technologies to translate business requirements to engineering teams.
• Experience using data and metrics to independently test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success with attention to detail.
• A highly motivated self-starter who can work effectively across cross-functional teams and also make things happen on their own.
• A strong communicator with excellent written and verbal skills.
• A team player and fun to work with. Loves to share inspiration and new ideas with your direct and indirect teams.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and content criteria and objectives into clearly defined requirements that populate a robust roadmap and articulate a product strategy.
• Analyze performance metrics, measure success , and use this data to identify new product opportunities that will build habit-forming engagement among users to play more frequently and subscribe to premium experiences.
• Partner with the engineering and design teams to define user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritize, and conduct user acceptance testing.
• Create intuitive and fun experiences for puzzles and games through continuous experimentation and iteration.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level