Senior Product Manager

In this role, you can expect to:

Key Accountabilities:
• Work closely with the Lead Product Manager, Lead Producer, and other stakeholders to inform and execute product strategy aimed at improving core product KPIs.
• Translate strategic directives into goals and key results where you can then monitor and drive strategy around achieving results through the associated KPIs.
• Co-develop a comprehensive in-app feature strategy with design that maintains and improves player engagement and supports planned feature releases.
• Work with the Lead Product Manager and design to conceptualize and implement engaging features, mechanics, systems, and modalities of play that fulfill business goals.
• Proactively identify optimizations and feature implementations to maximize player experience and business performance.
• Have the ability to deconstruct popular game features and their monetization mechanic to influence the executive decision whether to incorporate these trends into the product or not.
• Communicate and prioritize asks with the BI Team to conduct in-depth analysis of the in-game economy trends using data insights to impact top line KPIs.
• Partner with design and analytics to establish an experimentation road map, using A/B testing and machine learning to meet objectives and create product and player insight, and then translate these outcomes into relevant recommendations.
• Keep abreast of gaming trends and insights to identify and evaluate new business opportunities that provide value to players and align with our goals.
• Understand market trends, business models and customer preferences across all genres, platforms, territories, and demographics.
• Expert data and analytical skills (e.g. using different analytics tools, interpreting dashboards, etc.).
 
Leadership:
• Assists with knowledge dissemination.
• Inspires and encourages teamwork.
• Creates and sustains a positive work environment.
• Participates in the recruitment process.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in math, statistics, finance, economics or related field.
• MBA a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in product management, games systems design, or data analytics in games as a service (mobile, PC, or console).
• Strong experience in quantitative analysis, including the ability to model game parameters using Excel and business intelligence tools such as Tableau.
• Experience with A/B and multivariate testing.
• Understanding and experience with a wide range of business models including, but not limited to, free-to-play and subscriptions business models.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
Commuter Benefit: we believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and want to support you in making it work for you! We provide a flexible, monthly cash allowance to help cover the costs of transit, parking, or even personal logistics like childcare and pet care.
PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
Cool spaces: Our offices are in Vancouver, Montreal, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, or watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!