Senior Product Manager - Remote

Uken Games is looking for a Senior Product Manager to grow the studio’s most popular casual titles. You will join a team of highly analytical and creative PMs and Designers to help shape and execute the vision behind our games. Your work will have a direct impact on the millions of fans playing our games. 

As a Ukenite, you’ll be working on meaningful things like:

• Collaborating with key stakeholders and colleagues to define the long-term product strategy as well as more detailed and measurable quarterly product performance KPI goals
• Championing our games’ vision and strategy; utilizing a data driven approach and stack ranking methods to evaluate and optimize the project plan in order to meet established product KPIs
• Demonstrating strong customer empathy by leveraging both quantitative user data and qualitative user feedback to validate and prioritize design ideas throughout the entire lifecycle of a feature (i.e. design, execution, as a live feature, and further iteration)
• Managing a game’s end to end lifecycle and design challenges across multiple features and monitoring this progression through successful completion of milestones
• Collaborating with developers, artists, other partners on executing game ideas including design, content creation and data integration as well as great product design
• Designing big (and small) game features, which increase the game’s KPIs and delight users 

• Creating systems and mechanics catered to a games specific target demographic
• Creating game design documents that clearly communicate ideas, concepts and requirements across multiple disciplines

Your background should include: 

• Experience as a product manager on live free to play mobile games
• Experience creating product specifications, design documents, and white papers
• Strong data analytics skills; proficient in SQL, dashboard creation, and management
• A confident approach in championing features and acting as a mentor to junior members
• Agility and ability to quickly adapt and manage through change 
• Outstanding written/oral, organizational and time management skills
• A passion for games, up to date on tech and trends in the games industry
• BA/BS degree with a data science or math focus or equivalent experience

We believe in a fun & meaningful work environment:

• You'll be equipped with a high-end laptop and mobile device 
• Competitive salary, extended health and dental benefits and allowances
• You’ll work in a collaborative, coaching and mentoring culture
• Fully remote organization, no commute! 
• Remote and in-person team building events and celebrations

About Us

Uken builds games that people everywhere love. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Jeopardy! World Tour are the top 2 trivia games, engaging millions of global players every month. In 2020, Uken released Ava’s Manor, a solitaire game where users renovate and decorate the manor while discovering mysterious clues and dabbling in a romantic love story. 

We consider ourselves data-driven designers, technologists, and artists. Through collaboration, we pair the craft of design with feedback and data to deliver a pace and rhythm in each game session that immerses our audience and leaves them wanting more. We have a quirky, nerdy culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, quality ideas, and a data-driven mindset. We believe in moving quickly and improving constantly, and that mantra is reflected in the weekly updates we make to our games and internal technologies. We have an appetite for pushing technical boundaries but with a focus on practical use.

We take entertainment seriously.

Uken welcomes applications from racialized people, Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, and people from gender and sexually diverse groups who would contribute to the further diversification of our team. Uken is committed to offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or accommodation for any part of the selection process due to a disability, please contact us at jobs@uken.com

Compensation: $120,000.00 - $130,000.00 / year