Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Warner Bros. Discovery is a leading entertainment company, and they are seeking an Advanced Product Manager to join their Avalanche studio. The role involves crafting product strategies, leading cross-functional teams, and utilizing data analytics to enhance player experience in an online multiplayer RPG.
Responsibilities
- Partner with other disciplines to craft features across your area from concept through release and into post-launch iteration, owning outcomes at every stage
- Turn high-level business strategy and player insights into clear, prioritized roadmaps for team collaboration
- Partner with leadership to define short- and long-term product vision, articulating tradeoffs with confidence and clarity
- Write sharp, thorough PRDs, feature specs, and briefs that empower the team for clear alignment
- Serve as the connective tissue between design, engineering, QA, and data, aligning teams around shared goals without sacrificing speed and vision
- Lead indirect reports and collaborators toward shared outcomes, exemplifying ownership mindset and setting a high bar for execution
- Facilitate decisions across stakeholders with competing priorities, building consensus grounded in data and player understanding
- Communicate progress, risks, and pivots clearly and proactively up to leadership and across the team
- Own the business outcomes of features in your area
- Design and define telemetry schemas such as instrumentation plans, event taxonomies, and data contracts in close collaboration with engineering and central data teams
- Build and maintain dashboards and reports that surface actionable insights across retention, engagement, monetization, and feature health
- Define success metrics and KPIs for every feature before it ships and conduct post-mortems to understand feature performance and its impact on game health
- Conduct deep-dive analyses to identify player behavior patterns, funnel breakdowns, and growth levers
- Conduct market research to understand current trends, anticipate emerging ones, and ensure the product and team remain competitive
- Translate product questions into analytics tasks, set clear hypotheses, and interpret results with the rigor and nuance
- Champion a culture of data-informed decision-making across the team
- Partner with other disciplines to craft the live ops calendar for your feature area that include seasonal content, in-game events, balance updates, and economy tuning
- Monitor live service health post-launch, triaging issues rapidly and coordinating a swift, organized cross-functional response
- Continuously analyze live data to identify retention risks and engagement opportunities, moving quickly to act on them
- Balance the needs of today's players with the long-term health of the game’s economy and community
Skills
- 7+ years of Product Management experience with at least 2 years in a senior or lead PM capacity
- Shipped or operated a live game
- You are an active gamer invested in the online RPG and/or cozy genres
- Deep, hands-on experience designing telemetry systems, defining what to instrument, why it matters, and how it gets implemented
- Proven ability to build and own dashboards, not just consume them
- Strong track record of building and maintaining product roadmaps in fast-moving environments ambiguous environments
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and driving alignment across design, engineering, creatives, and business stakeholders
- Strong analytical foundation. You're comfortable in SQL, fluent with raw data, and skilled at forming hypotheses from ambiguous signals
- Strong verbal and written communications skills, being able to explain the 'why' clearly and align diverse teams around a shared product vision
- Experience taking a product from concept all the way through live ops
- Console game development experience
- Various monetization and platform-specific constraints
- Familiarity with player-facing economy design, battle passes, seasonal content systems, in-game currencies
- Experience with A/B testing frameworks and experiment design at scale
- Background working with sophisticated monetization ecosystems, navigating diverse player lifecycles and spending behaviors
Benefits
- Annual bonuses
- Short- and long-term incentives
- Program-specific awards
- Health insurance coverage
- An employee wellness program
- Life and disability insurance
- A retirement savings plan
- Paid holidays and sick time and vacation
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