Job Description
The candidate we are looking for in the current opening is a mid- to- senior level Product Manager or Partner Manager that can take direction from a lead/director level product manager. We want a pipeline of candidates, so candidates of all levels should apply. Candidates from consulting, investment banking, game studios, mobile app development, and ad technology should apply.
Your role within Activision Blizzard Media
We are looking for a world class partner manager to help us scale a player- first advertising business. You will work with an array of top tier developers and support services to create exceptional ad experiences that make a meaningful contribution to our games. You will play a pivotal role in defining what we build and why we build it.
Responsibilities
Apply for this role if you are a hungry and talented product or partner manager that has a ‘spidey- sense’ for the drivers that make for a successful mobile game and have a deep understanding of mobile ad monetization. It helps that you can showcase a proven track record of managing or directly contributing to a live business during a period of rapid growth. We value prior experience in startups, studios, and consulting firms.
- Define opportunities for advertising monetization across world class games
- Assemble product requirements from multiple sources to clearly articulate current and future customer needs.
- A true collaborator - work across the advertising team, data and analytics, and game studios to drive advertising player experiences forward
- Partner with a team of product strategists and UI/UX designers to develop and iterate on product requirements that meet marketer needs
- Build business cases and analytical insight for new business initiatives: this requires identifying key issues, quantitatively analyzing related metrics, and communicating results
Skills to Create Thrills
- Experience in product management preferably in mobile F2P
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding and experience in developing player- first game ad monetization features
- Sound business judgment and the innate ability to link business objectives to customer experiences
- The ideal candidate will be service oriented and willing to go the extra mile to ensure stakeholders and game studio partners are successful in scaling ad monetization experiences
- Ability to interpret, internalize, and decision off of data
- Past experience working within a validation centric environment with experience designing and executing AB Tests
Education: Graduate Degree preferred.
About Activision And Our Family Of Brands
King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one (or more!) of our games. We have developed more than 200 fun titles and offer games in over 200 countries and regions. King has game studios in Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, London, Malmö and Stockholm along with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, LA, Malta and New York. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) which acquired King in February 2016.
Activision Blizzard is a member of the Fortune 500 and S&P 500, and the world's most successful standalone interactive entertainment company.
We delight hundreds of millions of monthly active users around the world every day through franchises including Activision's Call of Duty®, Destiny and Skylanders®, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Hearthstone®, Diablo®, StarCraft®, and Heroes of the Storm®, and King's Candy Crush™, Pet Rescue™, Bubble Witch™ and Farm Heroes™.
We’ve been one of Fortune’s "100 Best Companies To Work For®" for the last four years. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, we have operations throughout the world, and our games are played in 196 countries.
