Senior Technical Product Manager
GameAnalytics, Denmark
Job Description
About Game Analytics
GameAnalytics is a leading analytics tool for games. Our platform helps everyone in the industry, from indie developers, to growing game studios, to global publishers. Our network includes more than 90K games (actively sending data), which are played by north of 2 billion people each month. That’s more than of the world’s mobile gamers.
What’s our mission? To help game developers make the right decisions based on data. And by joining our team, you’ll be working on new and innovative products to help tens of thousands of people in the industry do just that.
The products
GameAnalytics currently provide..
- A free analytics SaaS tool delivering tools and aggregated insights via dashboards
- A paid DataSuite offering with functionality including Big Query event-level data-warehouse, raw data export and an API for programmatic access to KPI’s.
About the team and what we are looking for
This position will be part of the Product Team based in central Copenhagen and will be working closely with the CPO. We are looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager to help mature our current DataSuite features and innovate new functionality. The role will be a primary product resource for enterprise big-data solutions, but will also be involved with initiatives for the analytics SaaS product.
The product team facilitates efficient collaboration, ideation, and execution via product development, agile processes and roadmap ownership. As a team, we enjoy learning and solving challenges for our game studios to help them grow and scale.
This role will work closely with engineering teams (and CTO) to understand technical possibilities and limitations, while also keeping in touch with game studios (and commercial) to understand their needs. We expect the candidate to be highly motivated in gaining such knowledge (our tech options and studio needs) to enable optimal solutions to be pursued.
GameAnalytics is collecting 277.000 events/second (average), resulting in 700Gb of new data (compressed) per day. This role requires an understanding of the complexities of working with Big Data to collaborate on delivering high-impact/low-cost solutions and infrastructure. This is an excellent opportunity for a product professional with an experience and interest in data-driven game development at scale.
THE JOB
- Become a core contributor in the product team, involved in all team related decisions and processes. Lead the ideation, definition, and product development of features with a strong focus on DataSuite
- Maintain contact with key customers (data-driven game studios) to understand their use-cases and pain-points
- Work closely with engineering teams to understand the technical platform and ensure aligned expectations
- Ensure product requirements are well-defined, documented and understood by the development teams
- Lead feature discovery and validation in cooperation with technical, legal, and commercial teams
- Shape the future roadmap with key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with company strategy and business goals
- Become a product evangelist and provide support for sales and marketing teams for documentation, product launches, campaigns, or direct key customer relationships
Requirements
Essential
Your skills and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- At least two years of proven work experience in technical product management and working in an agile environment (preferably with data products)
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to efficiently convey ideas to various stakeholders (technical and non-technical)
- Conflict resolution skills, ability to evaluate the impact and manage trade-offs between competing priorities and resources
- Proven track record of leading and owning product development, ability to understand and break down requirements into modular scope with clear specifications
- Proactive and fast technical learner, eager to solve problems with a mindset to facilitate a culture of learning and growth in the team
- Strong interest in understanding needs of data-driven game studios
- Familiar with options available via data science and machine learning
- Understanding of data pipelines (ETL), Big Data technologies and basic SQL knowledge
- Able to lead meetings and assist teams in proactively highlighting and resolving blockers that may arise in achieving sprint goals or roadmap goals
- Provide knowledge and suggestions to affect product strategy and vision, communicating clearly to ensure buy-in from all departments
- Strong sense of ownership of product development process. Ability to include te