Senior Product Manager, Gameplay

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Define the roadmap and vision for Gameplay, encompassing both short-term objectives and long-term aspirations.

• Take ownership of the gameplay experience across live games, daily games, and bot interactions.

• Collaborate with the team to generate and refine product ideas.

• Seek feedback from leadership and peers to enhance product direction.

• Maintain open and asynchronous communication via Slack across various global time zones.

• Engage in brainstorming sessions, pose questions, make reasoned decisions, and establish clear priorities.

• Foster alignment by involving relevant stakeholders.

• Establish success criteria and uphold standards for both velocity and quality.

• Identify problems and collaborate with engineers and designers to address them.

• Assess appropriate product scope and determine what qualifies as sufficient for launch.

• Leverage AI to prototype, mitigate risks, and expedite product development.

• Create mockups, test user flows, and rigorously evaluate ideas.

• Present working artifacts during discussions.

• Conduct A/B tests swiftly.

• Develop with an eye on configurability.

⛳️ Requirements

• A passion for chess and a comprehensive understanding of the entire chess-player user journey.

• In-depth familiarity with the Chess.com platform and its Gameplay ecosystem.

• Significant experience as a product manager delivering engaging consumer-facing products.

• Extensive background in collaboration with design and engineering teams.

• Proven ability to communicate effectively with executive stakeholders.

• Over 7 years of experience in product management.

• More than 4 years of experience in scaling consumer-facing products.

• Experience in launching consumer-facing products to sizable user communities.

• Capability to balance quantitative insights from funnels, metrics, and experiments with qualitative product judgment.

• Exceptional product taste, particularly within the chess domain.

• Awareness of the diverse needs of chess players at varying skill levels and experiences.

• Daily engagement with AI for prototyping, exploring concepts, and speeding up execution.

• Strong ability to communicate clearly and succinctly across multiple projects and stakeholder groups.

• Availability for at least 4 hours of overlap with Eastern US time zones.

• Willingness to collaborate primarily with stakeholders located in the US.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote work (work from anywhere).

• Flexible work location.

• At least 4 hours of overlap with Eastern US hours.