Associate Manager, Product Management

What We Need

The Associate Product Manager is a member of the Sports Product Management team, responsible for driving overall game success across multiple key mobile and console sports franchises, including PGA TOUR 2K, WWE 2K, WWE Super Card, Top Spin 2K, and more. In this role, the main focus for the Associate Product Manager will be on the day-to-day operations of the business as it relates to games-as-a-service while supporting the Product Management team on future development ideas.

The Associate Product Manager will develop strategies and support execution for a wide range of post-launch live service activities and interventions. You will use data to generate key insights and influence in-game modes, features, content, economy and other key product decisions. Your efforts will help a multitude of decisions that delight our players and deepen their engagement with our games.

The Associate Product Manager must be able to work in a highly cross-functional environment partnering with multiple disciplines to keep our community engaged through high-level execution of post-launch content. You will play a critical role in delivering day-to-day business performance, while also keeping in mind the best interest of our players.

• Strategic Planning & Execution. Collaborate with Studios, Production, Marketing, Analytics, and other key teams to drive player engagement, retention, and monetization via high impact live service strategies and activations. Hypothesize, test, and improve strategies executed through different initiatives, campaigns, and tools that will deliver gains on key metrics.
• Performance Management. Partner with Analytics to develop KPI frameworks, establish telemetry requirements, and enable the recurring reporting and ad-hoc inquiries imperative to help identify a wide array of critical decisions.
• Market Intelligence & Insights. Support senior product managers with research and analysis that will help shape key commercial and design decisions by conducting market research on prevailing and emergent product and live services industry trends.
• Player Advocate. Understand and advocate for the player’s perspective throughout strategy and post-launch processes to ensure development of fair and balanced monetization models that empower customer choice and value for time. Be the voice of the player, but balance that with the business goals to drive wins on both sides.

The ideal candidate for this role is passionate about delivering outstanding product experiences with customer obsession, optimized via data-driven insights. You seek the ‘WHY’ before finding the ‘HOW’. You excel working cross-functionally to solve big questions and find new ways to build value for our community and our business.

Qualifications:

• Ability to collaborate across organizations and balance business priorities, customer perspective, resource capacity, and stakeholder needs. Proven track record of working in highly cross-functional environments.
• Passionate about understanding game design, live services mechanics and strategies across console and mobile game genres in the market today (both premium and free-to-play). Passionate about games, the psychology behind it, and driven to do right by the players while maintaining a focus on the business.
• Highly organized, upbeat, flexible, collaborative, and proactive. Eagerness to impact both strategic and tactical operational initiatives.
• Strong project management skills and 2+ years of experience in design, product management, product development, management consulting, corporate strategy, or related fields
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify, structure, and communicate information to all levels of the organization
• Self-starter and motivated to work in a fast-paced and ever-evolving environment who can balance their time on their own to deliver results
• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience

Nice to Have:

• Passion for or clear understanding of professional sports and sports fandom

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