# Director, Game Product Manager

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Wilmslow
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

We are seeking a Director, Game Product Manager at Playdemic, a BAFTA Award-winning developer and publisher of mobile games, focused on creating fun and engaging, free-to-play game services for iOS and Android.

As Playdemic's Director, Game Product Manager, you will report to the Studio GM, at Playdemic and will be responsible for identifying which KPIs and opportunities are targeted to ensure our games are set up to succeed. You will collaborate with the studio leaders on how to best achieve required KPIs and owning feature lifecycles and ensuring that hypotheses are measured and iterated upon.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own KPIs and work with other leaders within the team to drive results

- Oversee the Product Management discipline; inspire and motivate teams through personal example and enthusiasm

- Build a partnership with your game leadership team, establish trust and credibility with studio leadership and EA development partners

- Collaborate with the studio leaders to help define our KPIs for our vision, mission, and strategy

- Oversee the Studio Machine Learning Financial forecasting pipeline for all games, working with our Finance team to ensure we’re monitoring and meeting expectations

- Influence product plans and partner with production, design and marketing to deliver on key KPIs

- Achieve targets for business opportunities

- Lead product strategy and prioritisation discussions for all games

- Collaborate with studio leaders and game teams to lead feature impact assessments and provide applicable recommendations to affect future iterations

- Identify and analyse industry best practices for optimisation, merchandising, and feature implementation

- Increase user and competitive research to identify user segments, highlight areas of opportunity, and present applicable findings to the team

Qualifications:

- 7+ years of experience in product management, system design, live operations and data science; mobile game experience

- Experienced Manager and mentor of people

- Previous experience working as a Data Scientist

- Experience driving performance metrics across teams

- Influence with examples of data-based decision-making

- Must have the passion, the guile to sell your ideas and influence other partners, and the desire to accomplish those ideas

- Must love creating fun, compelling, and engaging user experiences

- Demonstrate scientific method experience testing qualitative hypotheses with quantitative data

- Experience at dissecting and analysing games, systems, and features, and core game loops

- Curiosity to understand the market movers and shakers

- Experience managing or understanding of Mobile Sports games or character collector games

- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent professional experience

## Skills

### Required
- product management
- data science
- mobile game development
- leadership
- communication

### Nice to have
- data modeling
- predictive analytics
- prescriptive analytics
- mobile app development
- online live services

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