Position: Product Owner (gaming project)
Company: Illuminates
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Обязанности
● Own the full product/game lifecycle management from inception to launch including
making insight-driven recommendations, writing clear and actionable specifications,
working with multidisciplinary teams (customer support, design, art, and programming) to
implement core features on time and with the greatest impact.
● Possess the capacity to analyze sprint results and share learnings across the team and
the company.
● Fully comprehend the player experience and audience psychology.
● Identify player needs and spot opportunities to build features that improve engagement
and retention.
● Advice on best marketing strategies and channels for user acquisition.
● Grow the user base and delight our players to ensure a solid engaged gaming
community.
● Scope and prioritize features based on business and player impact.
● Lead the game design process including understanding and developing game
mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics and the ability to translate them into rules and
specifications that may be programmed by the developers.
● Design and refine monetization strategies for free-to-play mobile games.
● Ensure that the UX and UI design processes reflect the desired outcomes by working
with the designers to leverage player insights and motivations.
● Generate expected outcomes by analyzing data from existing games and use this to
advise team leaders on long-term decision making and roadmap planning.
● Exhibit sound product judgment in formulating product strategy and presenting clear
measurable objectives that will lead to achieving our business goals.
● Provide valuable input into business cases based on in-depth data analysis and
demonstrate how that analysis impacts key product metrics.
● Build knowledge and understanding of data-driven insights within the rest of the team
through regular communication and the creation of relevant dashboards and reports.
Необходимые навыки
● 2+ years of experience in a product management role.
● Passion for mobile games and publishing live titles that entertain millions of players
around the world.
● Remarkable product instincts and creativity.
● Ability to focus and identify key product problems and opportunities.
● Ability to prioritize activities based on value to drive success.
● Strong communication and project management skills.
● Ability to collaborate with and inspire cross-discipline teams to achieve goals.
● Strong drive to understand WHY players play and HOW they behave and ability to
translate this into features and services.
● Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
● Ability to find answers to business questions and foresee upcoming trends using a
data-driven approach via hands-on exploration of data using business intelligence tools.
● Experience in optimizing product features after release through A/B testing and data
driven iteration.
● Ability to summarize complex problems, break them into workable chunks, and present them
concisely to stakeholders and team members.
● Experience in handling the intricacies of live-operations of a successful free-to-play
mobile game.
● Must be a self-starter, a team player, and driven.
● English level — upper-intermediate.