Niantic Player Support team seeks a Global Operations Manager to contribute to the planning and execution of various aspects of the player support operations of the new title.
We provide global customer support and use tools to ensure a high-quality product experience for tens of millions of users. As part of the team, you'll collaborate with individuals across different functions and within various geographies to provide excellent operational support for Niantic’s location-based products including but not limited to establish global operational policies and workflows, craft documentation and support contents, plan and execute day-to-day operations and implement operational tools. This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
Responsibilities
- Work with Product, Engineering, Design, and other departments to ensure successful launch of support offerings for new product features. This may include reviewing product designs for support implications, and developing proposals on how to address customers’ support requests.
- Perform key tasks such as workflow and process development, issue (bug) tracking and prioritization, documenting process, writing user-facing content, product support, and data analysis.
- Serve as a subject-matter guide on our games.
- Constantly look for solutions to problems and evaluate ways to more efficiently and optimally own the global support processes.
- Represent the voice of the user in meetings with partners of varying levels and job functions.
Qualifications
- Written and oral communication skills. (Proficient in English + business level Japanese.)
- BA/BS degree and 5+ years of experience in streamlining and scaling customer support or operational programs of a global product in the digital industry. (Experience in the Mobile app or the Entertainment app industry is a plus.)
- Outstanding problem solver with strong analytical and quantitative skills. You are excited by the opportunity to fix something.
- You have demonstrated the ability to lead complex projects and communicate cross-functionally and across geographies with all levels. You can take ambiguous details and translate them into executable action items. You can read an engineering spec for a new feature and understand where users might need support.
- You are a standout colleague and self-starter with a positive, interpersonal attitude, and an ability to effectively operate with high energy and flexibility in a fast paced, constantly evolving team environment.
- You don’t need to know how to write code but you can communicate easily with engineers and technical folks. For example, you understand the concept of client-server architecture....or you can get the gist of it from reading the Wikipedia article on the topic.
- Passion for our mission and products.
Plus If...
- You possess solid understanding of the following programming languages: Python, Javascript, SQL, HTML.
- You care deeply about user experience design and reducing frustration and user confusion. When you use a product, you often cannot help but think about how to improve it.
Join the Niantic team!
Niantic is the world’s leading AR technology company, sparking creative and engaging journeys in the real world. Our products inspire outdoor exploration, exercise, and meaningful social interaction.
Originally formed at Google in 2011, we became an independent company in 2015 with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. Our current titles include pioneering global-control game Ingress, record-breaking AR game Pokémon GO, and recently released third title, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
Niantic is an Equal Opportunity employer. We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.
We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Bellevue, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hamburg, and Zurich.
