Product Manager

PlayFirst, a leading mobile, social, and online gaming publisher, of emotionally engaging interactive entertainment, is committed to providing compelling entertainment experiences that always delight customers. By creating engaging story worlds that capture the imagination, PlayFirst teams publish high quality games across the most popular platforms worldwide including iPhone, iPad, PC and MAC. The company's mobile game portfolio includes top selling applications such as Diner Dash, Wedding Dash, Cooking Dash, Hotel Dash, and Egg vs, Chicken. Dash is the most successful premium priced casual gaming franchise in the iOS App Store with over 11 million downloads to date. PlayFirst games are available in major retailers and on more than 500 sites in 20 languages.

Founded in 2004 by veterans of Internet portals, traditional games publishers, entertainment software, and technology firms, PlayFirst is funded by Mayfield Fund, Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners and DCM. PlayFirst, Inc is headquartered in downtown San Francisco.

Job Description:

This position is pivotal to the company and an outstanding opportunity for a results focused high achiever. The ideal candidate is creative with a technical background and strong business acumen (gained either through an MBA or experience). This person is a highly motivated self-starter who can lead innovative projects from conception through implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Identifying trends and opportunities for our direct channel
• Researching potential new product features and opportunities
• Providing and gathering creative and analytical input into the business requirements of our product line
• Defining detailed specifications for new product features for engineering to implement
• Working with Marketing to implement and execute tactical marketing plans
• Refining, defining, and developing new processes for the management and support of existing product lines (for example, refining the publishing service processes to make them efficient)
• Defining and developing management metrics and reports

Required Experience:

• 2+ years of relevant software product/project management experience
• Competence with typical product manager software tools and documents (budget, P&L, MRD, functional specification, etc.)
• Outstanding organizational skills with proven ability to handle multiple projects and operational responsibilities simultaneously
• Strong customer orientation
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
• Outstanding analytic skill sets
• Knowledgeable in internet and software technology
• Current US work authorization

Desired Experience:

• Internet and consumer e-commerce experience
• Experience with products targeted at the females age 30+ segment
• Experience in the video game industry, especially online/casual games
• Computer Science degree and/or technical work experience
• Experience with reporting tools and SQL
• MBA degree

Benefits:

Core benefits include: health, dental, vision, life/disability, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) and stock options. PlayFirst is located in the heart of SOMA (2 blocks from BART) and offers great fringe benefits, including generous vacation/sick time, 10 company holidays, winter break, chair massage, snacks, refreshments, and company-wide "playdates" to test each of our games during the development process.

Salary-to be determined by education and experience. Local candidates only, please.

To apply for this position, please email your resume in a standard Word or PDF document to jobs@playfirst.com and include the above job title in the subject line.