Head of Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and spearhead Wand's product strategy across the entire product suite.

• Take ownership of the comprehensive product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the gaming platform and player experience.

• Manage the product lifecycle from customer discovery and strategy through to launch, iteration, and optimization.

• Collaborate with Engineering and Design to prioritize initiatives and deliver high-quality consumer products.

• Establish best practices in product management, operational processes, and product planning.

• Utilize customer research, analytics, and experimentation to gain insights into player behavior and guide product decisions.

• Drive metrics related to user acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization.

• Define and monitor product KPIs, using data to prioritize investments and assess success.

• Work closely with external partners and internal stakeholders to identify product opportunities and expand the ecosystem.

• Assess emerging technologies, AI capabilities, and gaming trends.

• Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing product team.

• Report directly to Founder & CEO Zach Rueda.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of product management experience, including leadership roles at rapidly growing consumer technology firms.

• Proven success in building and scaling multi-surface consumer products with millions of users, particularly within gaming, entertainment, consumer software, or digital platforms.

• Demonstrated history of leading complex, cross-functional product and design teams.

• Experience constructing products from the ground up in a founder-led startup environment and comfort with uncertainty.

• Strong intuition for customer needs and a record of creating engaging, retention-focused consumer experiences.

• Extensive experience leveraging experimentation, analytics, and user research to inform product strategies.

• Experience collaborating closely with Engineering and Design to deliver high-quality products swiftly.

• Robust understanding of product-led growth, engagement loops, monetization strategies, and user lifecycle management.

• Experience in hiring, mentoring, and developing product managers, while establishing scalable product processes.

• Exceptional communication skills with the capability to influence executive leadership and align cross-functional teams.

• Visionary, creative, entrepreneurial, diligent, adaptable, and resilient.

• Strong executive presence and communication abilities.

• Passionate about gaming, interactive entertainment, and emerging consumer technology, with a deep understanding of culture, creators, and community.

• Collaborative, low-ego, energetic, hands-on, and detail-oriented.

• Proven track record of launching memorable, culturally relevant campaigns.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity package.

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Opportunity to engage in unusually deep native work for an audience of over 40M players.

• Collaborate with a team that is passionate about games, moves swiftly, and cares deeply about their creations.