Senior Product Manager, Hearthstone

About the position

Blizzard is looking for an exceptional Senior Product Manager to join us in shaping the future of Hearthstone. We are looking for candidates with experience managing free-to-play games, owning business outcomes and delivering features that meaningfully improve metrics and enhance the player experience. This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

• Drive commercial success and player engagement by forming hypotheses, setting KPI targets, analyzing product performance and iterating on feature design.
• Drive the design and implementation of new features to improve target KPIs, with the ability of innovating and/or learning from established best practices.
• Become an expert on Hearthstone and the competitive landscape of mid-core games, so that you have a deep understanding of our players' motivations and desires from a global perspective.
• Provide valuable insights on LiveOps performance and apply LiveOps strategies that deliver high-performant retention and monetization metrics.
• Conduct rigorous testing, post-mortem analysis, and player/competitor research to continuously optimize business planning and execution.
• Work with game team and game leadership to lead and iterate upon the game's business strategy to build a cohesive product roadmap.
• Write clear and actionable product specifications, and effectively communicate ideas to the team for implementation.
• Lead the analysis of game data to draw actionable learnings and provide valuable insights.
• Be a player champion!

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in game product management.
• Demonstrated analytical skills, with a focus on data-driven decision making.
• Love for games and creating fun & compelling player experiences.
• Passionate, self-motivated, and driven to create and execute great ideas cross-functionally.
• Able to operate in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment and find creative ways to get things done.
• Outstanding communication, collaboration, and organizational abilities.
• Business, quantitative, technical, or design degree a plus.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
• Relocation assistance if the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job.