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If you’re passionate about esports and video games, you’re going to wish you had us back in high school. We’re the largest competitive gaming organization serving high school and education facilities in North America focused on making esports available to every student as a legitimate varsity level sport in high schools throughout the U.S. We achieve this by making it easy for faculty to offer students the chance to engage in healthy esports competition, surrounded by peers while supervised by teachers. Through organized esports competitions, students are learning to align their commitment to gaming with their success in academics and potential future careers.

We’re on the verge of transforming youth athletics for generations to come. High School Esports League is a technology company at its core, building a platform to service youth competitive esports from young kids to college students. We’re looking for a Head of Product to guide our engineering resources to take our platform to the next level. We have big ambitions and funding to support it. Now we need an experienced product manager who can lead a team to build a world-class product.

This role will have the opportunity to guide the vision and set the priorities for our product roadmap keeping the customer at the forefront of their decision making.

Requirements

Role Responsibilities

  • Define the product roadmap and forecast/present KPIs to management that will lead to higher customer satisfaction and stickiness
  • Constantly put yourself in the shoes of our participants and stakeholders in order to understand both the delights and the frustrations of their product experience
  • Iterate on our product suite to look for ways we can deliver more value to our customer
  • Identify growth levers that can create significant improvements in our growth
  • Analyze and scope new product features and initiatives with our data, marketing, engineering, and management teams
  • Run experiments and take ownership of analysis from these experiments/KPIs
  • Write accessible documentation on product features and initiatives
  • Work with usage data and analytics to track product rollouts and feature efficacy
  • Use Jira for ticket tracking, sprint planning, and communication with business stakeholders
  • Be able to work across multiple time zones with different teams of developers, marketing and project managers
  • Must be able to work independently and as part of a team

Qualifications

  • 5-7+ Years of hands-on, professional product management experience building highly scalable consumer or EdTech software
  • Run user testing and feed learnings into product development
  • Experience creating product strategies, driving roadmaps, and bringing features from ideation to launch
  • Experience managing the day-to-day of Agile teams and collaborating with engineers and designers
  • Knowledge of fundamental UX/UI and software development principles
  • You have a strong analytical background and can dive deep into KPIs to understand how to improve them
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to multitask
  • Familiarity with SQL and data tools a plus
  • You like playing video games

Languages/Technology Competencies

  • UI/UX design
  • HTML & CSS (SCSS)
  • Familiarity with SQL and data tools like Mixpanel and Segment
  • JIRA

Bonus Points

  • You’re hungry for a fast-paced startup environment
  • A computer science or software engineering background
  • Love for esports or video games

Benefits

Perks

  • 401k plan
  • Generous PTO and sick days
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Company happy hours
  • Stock options

You can choose between our Hoboken, NJ (NYC) office or our Kansas City, MO downtown office.