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Mission

Lock and Load – It is time to take up arms and lead the charge on of our most exciting upcoming titles. We are looking for a highly motivated, experienced and dependable Producer / Product Manager to shape the future of this game.

Overview

The Producer realizes the product strategy for his/her title(s) in order to achieve and surpass the product revenue budget. The producer does this by planning, preparing and executing the product plan in cooperation with his/her product team and the MY.GAMES service departments. Managing the daily operations and maintaining a strong grasp of longer-term planning and strategizing lie at the core of success in this role.

The role is based in the MY.GAMES office in Amsterdam, reports directly to the Head of Products and the Franchise Producer, and coordinates with our internal, remote, and Moscow-based production and service teams.

Goals

  • “The road ahead” - Develop the strategic publishing strategy and growth direction for your product
  • “Numb3rs, Numb3rs, Numb3rs…” - Ensure the achieving of the monthly, quarterly and yearly KPI goals (Revenue, PU%, ARPPU)
  • “… but Planning is essential” - Ensure that the product plan is established and synchronized across territories and platforms
  • “Chaaaaarge!” - Motivate and rally the team behind your vision of the product

Responsibilities

Planning & Operations

  • Work with the developers to define the regular game updates, sales content and monetization features
  • Develop the product plan and strategy for updates, events, sales, etc. by defining the necessary tasks and strategy behind all elements
  • Create the monthly operations plans to detail work packages and strategic activities
  • Identify and leverage sales opportunities across games and platforms
  • Work closely with the Brand Manager to identify and leverage opportunities for Marketing support of your product
  • Update and maintain the product’s Master Roadmap with all planned activities
  • Oversee the daily operations for your product and work with the Game Operation Specialist to define the necessary work packages

Project Management

  • Manage the execution of sub-projects within your product, such as update releases, major feature additions, major sales events, etc.
  • Define work packages for all areas of your product, define the responsibilities and track the execution and deadlines with your product team
  • Support your team with best practices for managing their workload

Forecasting and Budgeting

  • Create and maintain the yearly budgets and monthly KPI forecasts for your product(s)
  • Create special forecasts for sub-projects, such as platform- or update-releases

Team Management & Communication

  • Oversee and manage your product team’s daily work and help them with hands-on support and mentoring
  • Hold regular meetings / calls with your team, the product team in our Moscow HQ, the developers and other necessary colleagues
  • Take care of personnel back office and line management duties for your team (Holiday requests, Feedbacks, Salary Planning, etc.)
  • Ensure the communication flow for all aspects of your product inside and outside of your team and represent the title and its goals in regular Town Halls
  • Make sure that all aspects of the product plans are documented in our internal tools and made available to the necessary team(s)
  • Work with your fellow Producers to share common knowledge and best practice across products.

What you need to bring…

  • 5+ years of experience working in Product Management online video games with a Free-to-Play model or similar experience, ideally on an Online Shooter
  • You have created product strategies with a proven track record of developing and implementing action plans to expand games into new markets and audiences
  • You have worked with monetization and audience KPIs and created action plans, forecasts and reports against these KPIs
  • You have experience working with development teams in defining and implementing product roadmaps and rollout plans for online games
  • You have experience working with Marketing in creating and supporting holistic Marketing Plans for game and update releases in the EU and NA markets
  • You are skilled in Project Management and comfortably working with different methodologies (Waterfall, Agile), which you have successfully implemented to achieve the desired results
  • You have an interest in and understanding of Free-To-Play games and their business model with a strong affinity towards Online Shooter titles
  • You have experience playing on and/or working with Video Game Consoles
  • You are proficient with standard office tools such as Word and Excel, Google Sheets and other online tools (Mind mapping, Project Management, Task Management, etc.)
  • You have excellent People management and communication skills
  • You are fluent in English

It would also be great if you had…

  • Experience working with JIRA and Confluence for task and information management
  • Additional languages such as German, French, Chinese, Korean or Russian

About MY.GAMES

At MY.GAMES we strive to bring the most exciting online games to all audiences around the world. We are a team that works together on the basis of shared values and principles in order to achieve the team coherence and efficiency needed to tackle our objectives and daily challenges.

We are looking for future colleagues that can relate to our values and help our aspirations of achieving them in everything that we do, every day.

Our Core Values aspirations are:

  • Professionalism (We are experts in what we do and we share our knowledge)
  • Transparency (We communicate well and know our objectives and responsibilities)
  • Feedback (We improve through personal and professional feedback.)
  • Respect & Recognition (We live and promote empathy and mutual respect)
  • Planning & Collaboration (We collaborate to plan, and plan to collaborate)
  • Continuous Growth (We facilitate personal development and seek out challenges)
  • Flexibility & Problem Solving (We are open to new approaches and embrace risk)