Technical Product Manager
Description
About IGN
IGN Entertainment is one of the leading Internet media companies focused on video games and entertainment. IGN reaches more than 300 million monthly users around the world, and is followed by more than 58MM social and YouTube followers. IGN also publishes daily content on 35 platforms including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat Discover. Established in 1996, IGN is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. IGN content is localized in 20 languages and 110 countries and hosted on websites and native applications on mobile, connected TV, and Xbox and PlayStation platforms.
The Opportunity
IGN is searching for a Product Manager to join our cross-functional Product team. In this role, you'll play a pivotal part in ensuring our products are not only usable and feasible but also valuable and viable. You'll collaborate closely with designers and engineers to craft the direction of our product offerings. This position offers the outstanding opportunity to provide to our overall product strategy and quarterly objectives. The ideal candidate is a dynamic relationship builder with effective prioritization skills, ensuring that we stay focused on what truly matters for the business.
Your ability to leverage data, sound logic, and passionate drive will be instrumental in driving the success of our products. You'll gain a profound understanding of our users and customers, using data-driven insights into our customer engagement. Additionally, you'll navigate the intricacies of our business, considering factors such as editorial, sales, service, finance, legal, privacy, and social media.
Joining IGN’s Product Team means taking on a substantial and diverse set of responsibilities as we often find ourselves at the forefront of requests from collaborators across all departments of the company. Our team is tasked with striking a balance between long-term, sustainable enhancements for IGN Entertainments portfolio of websites and apps and shorter-term revenue growth opportunities on a quarterly basis.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Strategy and Leadership - Develop, lead, and communicate a clear product strategy and vision for IGN's large portfolio of digital platforms and products, ensuring that it coincides with the company's goals and objectives.
- Product Roadmap - Define and maintain the product roadmap for multiple products, ensuring it aligns with business priorities, user needs, and market trends. Make data-driven decisions and prioritize features accordingly.
- Product Development - Oversee the end-to-end product development process, from conceptualization to release. Coordinate with development teams to deliver high-quality products on schedule.
- Project Management - Define and prioritize product features, enhancements, and requirements based on customer feedback, market research, and business impact.
- Product Launch - Plan and implement successful product launches, including marketing strategies and user communication. Monitor product performance post-launch and iterate based on user feedback.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, editorial, and marketing, to ensure successful product development and delivery.
- Partner Communication - Keep collaborators informed about the status of ongoing projects, turning points, and potential roadblocks. Maintain visibility and ensure alignment with business goals, overall product strategy, and the product roadmap.
- User Research - Conduct, analyze, and engage with user feedback/research to gain insight into our user needs, preferences, concerns, and difficulties. Use this data to inform product decisions and improvements.
- User Experience (UX) - Work with UX/UI designers to create user-friendly and visually appealing products. Ensure a seamless and engaging user experience across IGN's digital platforms.
- Data Analysis - Apply data analytics and key performance indicators to supervise product performance, identify areas for improvement, and make decisions to optimize the product.
- Market and Competitive Analysis - Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and the competitive landscape to find opportunities and threats in the market, ensuring that our products remain innovative.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience of 2-5 years working on technology-powered products as either a product manager, product designer, engineer, data analyst, data scientist, or user researcher
- Solid understanding of digital media platforms, technologies, and industry trends.
- Shown ability of building intuitive content management systems that meet both internal and external customer needs
- Experience in building subscription based products with a track record of driving growth
- Led product development on sophisticated features from 1st to Nth interaction
- A history of deep, and demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery
- Proven track record to determine solutions to hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgment to assess risks, and give recommendations in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to aid in collaborations with engineers, designers, and company leaders
Bonus Points if you have...
- Deep understanding of the gaming industry and market trends.
- Strong background in app development and design.
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Our Culture and Values
At IGN, we believe diversity stimulates creativity, promotes the exchange of new ideas, and enriches our personal and professional lives. We are committed to championing diversity in all that we do, weaving fairness and equity into the fabric of our organization, and achieving a safe, welcoming, inclusive, and antiracist culture where everyone belongs and everyone can thrive.
Here’s the good stuff about us…
- You’ll make an impact. We reach 286 MM monthly unique users. We’re big time, but we’re not afraid to give you real opportunities to be epic and make a difference immediately.
- We’ve got a big presence, but a small team.
- We have fun. It’s all about games and games are fun. Anyone can offer a casual work environment, flexible hours, and benefits. We can offer that and a place where you can squad up with your coworkers in the arcade/game room.
- We’re passionate about what we do. IGN employees understand our users, because they are our users. We have a personal interest in providing the best possible product.
IGN offers competitive salaries in addition to robust health and wellness focused benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits; Flexible Spending accounts, 401(k) with company match, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Pregnancy and Parental leave, Family Planning Support via Maven, Flexible Time Off, Volunteer Time Off, Fitness Reimbursement as well as employee-focused engagement and education programs, including Employee Resource Groups and company-sponsored events. If you’re seeking a dynamic work environment where you can see the direct impact of your performance, then IGN is the place for you.
IGN is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Salary Disclosure: Ziff Davis provides a range for the base pay. Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay may include your specific job related knowledge, skills, experience, and geographic location. The base pay for this position ranges from $78,000 to $120,000, plus incentive compensation (for eligible roles only), 401K with company match, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, short and long-term disability, and a flexible time off policy.