Lead Product Manager - Consumer (Bangalore)

Join Skillz and Level Up Your Career!  Director of Product - Sujoy Ghosh

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join Skillz, the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform that hosts billions of casual mobile gaming tournaments for millions of players worldwide. Skillz is revolutionizing the gaming industry, providing the ultimate platform for competitive mobile games. By fostering social competition within games, Skillz empowers developers to create multi-million dollar franchises while connecting players through fair, enjoyable, and meaningful competition.

At Skillz, we firmly believe that everyone is born with unique skills and deserves to experience an epic win. We understand the thrill of achievement and the satisfaction of overcoming challenges. That's why we passionately champion game developers and players alike, empowering them to unleash their full potential through the power of competition.

Life @ Skillz

• Culture of Impact: Join a united team of builders, creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven by the desire to win. At Skillz, we create value and make a difference in the world.

• Comprehensive Benefits: We value our team members and provide a comprehensive benefits package to ensure your well-being. Enjoy 401K matching, equity incentives, extensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, pre-tax benefit options, and more.

• Work-Life Balance: Achieving work-life balance is important to us. We offer competitive paid time off (PTO) & company holidays to help you recharge and pursue your passions.

• Perks: We believe in enhancing your work experience. Enjoy weekly team lunches, snacks, Friday Happy Hours, commuter benefits, insurances, and many more.

Why Skillz?

• Pioneers of Skill-Based Competition: Skillz is not just any company in the gaming industry; we are the pioneer of skill-based competition. Join us in transforming the way people play games and building the home of competition for all.

• Impact Beyond Gaming: Skillz harnesses the power of its platform to support nonprofit organizations such as the American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society, the NAACP, and more. By participating in Skillz tournaments, you can make a difference and contribute to causes you care about.

• Recognized Success: Skillz has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, CNBC's Disruptor 50, San Francisco Business Times' Best Places to Work, Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000 list, and many more.

• Talent Magnet: Join a team of talented professionals who are passionate about what they do. Our team includes experts from Meta, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Roblox, Samsung, EA, Riot, Tinder, Intel, Twitch, and more.

The Future of Gaming Awaits!

The gaming industry is larger than movies, music, and books combined, with over 3 billion active gamers playing monthly and over 25 million active developers worldwide. Mobile gaming, in particular, is the fastest-growing segment, projected to reach $300 billion by 2025. At Skillz, you have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this exciting industry and shape its future.

Skillz is searching for an accomplished Lead Product Manager in Bangalore, focusing on driving roadmap execution and delivery. You will be instrumental in shaping the technical delivery within our Consumer Experience division, headquartered in our new office in Bangalore.

In this key leadership position, you will be responsible for providing strategic direction for the product management function, ensuring the successful implementation of our roadmap, and contributing to the overall success of Skillz. Your role will encompass inspiring a culture of challenging the status quo, promoting data-driven decisions and KPIs, leading through example, and fostering innovation within the eSports domain. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced product manager to impact the eSport space significantly.

What we are looking for:

1. Durability and Resiliency - A startup mindset and comfortable building from the ground up.

2. Ability to work cross-functionally with stakeholders to define the consumer product vision, strategy, and roadmap for achievements and social game modes aligned with the overall company product roadmap and business strategy.

3. A strategic thinker who can own the overall plan, including design, implementation, GTM, and analysis framework of features and functional refinements.

4. Ability to work with the Leadership team to estimate ship dates of major deliverables with 75% or better accuracy.

5. Excellent communicator capable of clearly sharing feature development progress, metric impact, etc, to a multi-functional group.

6. Ability to work with the Director, Product Management Sujoy Ghosh to understand and articulate the company mission to the Engineering and Design teams.

Requirements:

1. 5+ years of PM / Live operations experience.

2. 6-8 years of experience building and delivering user-centered, engaging experiences across a range of platforms and an ability to demonstrate the success and impact of efforts for both users and business, with at least 3 years in games (RMG or F2P mobile).

3. Knowledge of consumer products, refined visual design sensibility, and a passion for mobile.

4. A great communicator (verbal, written, and visual) who can influence and build consensus within a product team and with executive stakeholders across the company.

5. Experience building web or mobile gameplay, competition features and/or social experiences in social casino or puzzle games a strong plus.

Join Skillz and Let's Redefine the Boundaries of Gaming! 

Together, we'll create a world where skill, passion, and innovation thrive. Join our team and be part of the journey. We look forward to having you on board!

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