Simulation Product Manager

Rapsodo•St. Louis, MO

About The Position

Rapsodo is hiring a Product Manager or Senior Product Manager to own the Rapsodo Studios roadmap, including deciding which features, courses, and game modes to build and release. Rapsodo Studios is a golf simulation platform featuring high-fidelity scans of real courses, 4K visuals, realistic ball-flight, bounce, and roll physics, and multiplayer play. The role owns engagement for Studios and works closely with players, the golf-simulation community, course designers, engineering, design, and marketing to turn customer insight and market knowledge into releases that encourage golfers to return. The Product Manager defines product vision, strategy, and priorities; monitors customer feedback and product analytics; represents Studios in the player community; runs beta and early-access programs; partners with course designers on the course pipeline and creation workflows; and tracks competitors and market trends. The role also establishes launch metrics, coordinates go-to-market activities, and aligns Studios with Rapsodo's launch monitors, PC and mobile apps, and cloud platform. Success is expected to include learning the product and community in the first 30 days, publishing a competitive benchmark and prioritized player-facing gaps while owning a first-release spec within 90 days, and increasing engagement and membership growth during the first year.

Requirements

At least 4 years of product management experience; at least 7 years for the Senior Product Manager level.
Ideally, product management experience in games, simulation, sports technology, or consumer software with an engaged user community.
A track record of owning a roadmap and shipping features that measurably improved engagement or retention.
Strong instincts for player experience and the ability to assess why a round feels good or off.
Comfort working directly with communities, including reading forums, hosting Q&A sessions, and closing the feedback loop.
Fluency with product analytics and A/B tests, and ability to turn qualitative feedback into decisions.
Clear, concise writing and ability to align engineering, art, design, and marketing around decisions.
Experience working with a distributed team across time zones.
A genuine passion for golf; plays golf and understands what makes a good course and simulation round.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with golf simulators and launch monitors, at home or in a commercial bay.
Familiarity with Unreal or Unity, 3D course creation, terrain scanning, or photogrammetry.
Experience with multiplayer, live operations, or content-release models such as seasons, events, or new-content drops.
Background with subscription or membership products.
Experience using AI tools to accelerate specifications, feedback analysis, and research.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Rapsodo Studios, covering course releases, gameplay features, multiplayer, and game modes.
Prioritize work based on player impact, engagement, and business goals, and communicate trade-offs.
Write product specifications and requirements, and guide features through specification, build, beta, and launch.
Review customer feedback from support tickets, app reviews, surveys, forums, social channels, and beta programs.
Translate feedback into problem statements, assess gaps, and drive fixes and improvements.
Use product analytics to understand how golfers play, where they drop off, and what brings them back.
Represent Rapsodo Studios in the golf-simulation community, engage players on forums, Discord, Reddit, and social channels, and close the loop on feedback and shipped work.
Run beta and early-access programs for courses and features.
Partner with internal and external course designers to plan the course pipeline, set quality standards, and prioritize courses.
Help improve tools and workflows so designers can create and ship courses faster.
Benchmark competing simulation platforms across graphics, physics, course libraries, features, pricing, and experience.
Track trends in home and commercial golf simulation and translate them into roadmap opportunities.
Define launch success metrics and KPIs and report results.
Coordinate go-to-market activities with marketing, sales, and support, including release notes, launch messaging, and enablement.
Align with teams responsible for launch monitors, PC and mobile apps, and the cloud platform to deliver a connected Studios experience.