Overall Responsibilities:
As a product manager you will be responsible for developing product roadmaps and defining prioritized feature sets to address customer needs based on a deep understanding of the evolving virtual reality landscape. This role is hands-on and cross-functional: you will work collaboratively with design, marketing, engineering and other teams to identify, design, prioritize and deliver features to drive customer acquisition and engagement.
The ideal candidate has a strong focus on delivering innovative new digital products to customers and combines product expertise with a keen eye for design. She or he can build something innovative to deliver wholly new experiences for customers. He or she has the ability to navigate a fast-paced, constantly changing environment while driving a specific roadmap and detailed product requirements.
In this role you will:
- Build and manage cutting edge applications at the forefront of virtual reality with an emphasis on live, immersive experiences that engage audiences in ways that have never been done before.
- Develop a deep understanding of the evolving virtual reality landscape and drive cutting edge customer and consumer virtual and mixed reality experiences.
- Partner with key stakeholders to define product features/functionality and roadmap required to deliver and enhance an industry leading live virtual reality platform and customer experience.
- Own the development of detailed product requirements documents.
- Drive projects, products, and feature launches with internal and external stakeholders.
- Build and manage applications across major distribution platforms including Oculus, Vive, Playstation, iOS, Android, Cardboard and more.
- Work with UX and UI resources to create new, leading edge experiences.
Ideal Experience:
- 6+ years of experience operating, managing and delivering results in a gaming or digital media product management role.
- Experience with video streaming, gaming and/or mobile businesses. Experience with live video a plus. Experience with Unity a plus.
- Excellent cross functional project management skills.
- Demonstrated track record for problem solving turning ambiguous problems into clear solutions.
- Understanding of and appreciation for digital and traditional media business models.
- Significant experience in both large and small companies with the hands-on ability to build products in a start-up environment.
- Relationships and credibility in the product, design and engineering community.
- Exceptional verbal and written communicator.
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, business development and external partners to deliver digital products/services.
- BA/BS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
