Staff Product Manager, Games Ecosystem

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

📋 Description

• Establish the product strategy for the Games Ecosystem, detailing how games integrate with Reddit's communities, creator platform, and long-term growth initiatives.

• Discover the most impactful opportunities in player experience, community engagement, creator/developer support, game discovery, retention, and overall ecosystem quality.

• Develop a roadmap that harmonizes consumer-focused experiences, community-centric features, creator/developer tools, platform capabilities, and ecosystem initiatives.

• Enhance communities to become vibrant hubs for game-related engagement, including discussions, identity formation, events, social play, creator content, and other sustainable engagement loops.

• Optimize the discovery, distribution, and revisitation processes for high-quality games and game-related experiences across Reddit.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Data, ML/ranking, DevRel, Community, Partnerships, Trust/Safety, Policy, and various other teams to implement lasting improvements to the ecosystem.

• Engage with creators, developers, studios, moderators, and community leaders to gain insights into what drives game success on Reddit and identify areas where the platform may create challenges.

• Establish the appropriate measurement framework for assessing player value, community value, builder success, experience quality, retention, discovery, and ecosystem health.

• Develop clear investment frameworks that guide leadership in decisions about whether to build natively, support creators/developers, partner externally, enhance platform primitives, or discontinue lower-impact projects.

• Lead cross-functional teams through uncertainty and assist them in transitioning from broad strategy to tangible, shipped products.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in directing ambiguous product strategies within games, communities, creator ecosystems, developer platforms, social products, marketplaces, entertainment, or consumer growth.

• Strong product intuition regarding what makes games and game-related experiences engaging, repeatable, social, and integrated within communities.

• Capability to analyze multiple perspectives within an ecosystem: players, fans, communities, moderators, creators, developers, partners, and internal teams.

• Comfort in addressing both consumer product inquiries and technical platform matters, even if your expertise is primarily in one area.

• Experience leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to pinpoint opportunities, prioritize investments, and evaluate the effectiveness of a product loop.

• Demonstrated strong cross-functional leadership skills across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Community, DevRel, Partnerships, Policy, Trust/Safety, and senior leadership.

• Exceptional written communication and decision-making frameworks that facilitate team alignment on ambiguous opportunities.

• A keen interest in games, fandoms, creator tools, AI-assisted creation, developer ecosystems, online communities, and the evolution of participatory entertainment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k with Employer Match

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, ranging from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

• Generous Paid Parental Leave