Game Quality Product and Operations Manager

In this role, you will support the development and execution of the Play Store Product roadmap; specifically regarding game quality across search, discovery, and emerging surfaces. You will define, operationalize, and scale guidelines and frameworks for game classification, qualitative evaluation, and deployment to help partner teams connect users to highly relevant, high quality games. You will ensure all details for a new feature to go live are flawlessly executed, from initial design to final operations processes. This includes driving communications, testing/piloting, launch activities, training, addressing bugs and ongoing operational support. You will also track progress on new feature development, clearly communicating milestones, feature details, and launches with cross-functional stakeholders and build relationships with games stakeholders, establishing open channels of communication for feedback, product suggestions and escalations. You will implement and manage product development and operationalization frameworks to work with new Large Language Model (LLM) technologies and will support prompt and context engineering efforts and human computation operations (HITL) to scale game quality evaluations.

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Responsibilities

• Support the development and execution of the Play Store Product roadmap, specifically regarding game quality across search, discovery, and emerging surfaces.
• Define, operationalize, and scale guidelines and frameworks for game classification, qualitative evaluation, and deployment to help partner teams connect users to highly relevant, high quality games.
• Ensure all details for a new feature to go live are flawlessly executed, from initial design to final operations processes. Drive internal communications, testing/piloting, launch activities, training, addressing bugs and ongoing operational stakeholder support.
• Support new feature development, clearly communicating milestones, feature details, and launches with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Build relationships with games stakeholders, establishing open channels of communication for feedback, product suggestions, and escalations.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in a technical project management or a customer-facing role.
  
• Experience in mobile gaming or the mobile industry.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing projects and working with analytics, software coding, or customer-side web technologies.
  
• Product Management or Product Operations experience in online commerce, with a practical understanding of the mobile gaming lifecycle.
• Gaming expertise, strategic product/engineering collaboration, and the ability to navigate ambiguity for a user-facing product.