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Product Manager - Business Analysis
PlayFirst, Inc. is the leading publisher in the rapidly growing casual games market. We are a fast-moving, fast-growing San Francisco startup founded in 2004 by veterans of leading internet and video game companies. Funded by venture capital firms Trinity Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Rustic Canyon Partners, the company has enjoyed triple-digit revenue growth each year since its inception and is approaching profitability.
PlayFirst is at the vanguard of a hot market, exploring what casual games can leverage from social networks, virtual worlds, and new business models such as item purchasing. We track the latest online trends, experiment aggressively and stay in close contact with our growing user base as we seek to increase customer engagement and broaden monetization. We now seek to define new shared experiences that turn our games into unique 'worlds'.
We start from the #1 IP position in the industry. Our bestselling title Diner Dash has sold more than three million copies across PCs, Macs, mobile phones, handheld consoles, and soon the leading traditional game consoles. Our recent hits Chocolatier, Dream Chronicles, and Wedding Dash are building impressive audiences online and will come to additional platforms in 2008. PlayFirst has always had a unique focus on building rich characters and stories. We are now leveraging these hit brands to build them into more deeply engaging shared experiences.
Job Description:
This is not your regular Product Management position. This position will drive critical incremental improvements across the PlayFirst.com product portfolio through a very rigorous experimentation process. Product changes and additions will be conceived of based on hard data. The ideal candidate possesses not only the demonstrated ability to ship products, but also the mathematical acumen to drive decisions based on statistics and controlled experimentation. If you are excited to improve game experiences for millions of users, then PlayFirst is the place for you!
Responsibilities:
- Identifying areas of our business that could benefit from incremental improvement
- Defining, developing, and executing experiments to refine the user flow, further engagement, and increase revenue
- Acting as an unbiased adviser to the rest of the product management team
- Researching potential new product features and opportunities based on previous experiments
- Defining specifications for new products or experiments and working closely with engineering to implement features
- Work well cross-functionally with marketing, sales, game development, design, engineering, QA and others to reach consensus and drive results
- Defining and developing management metrics and reports
Required Experience:
- 2+ years of relevant software product or project management experience
- Outstanding organizational skills with proven ability to handle multiple projects and operational responsibilities simultaneously
- Outstanding analytic skill sets
- Experience with reporting tools, SQL, data mining, financial modeling
- Strong customer orientation
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledgeable in internet and software technology
- Current US work authorization
Desired Experience:
- Consumer Internet experience
- Experience with products targeted at the females age 30+ segment
- Computer Science degree, Mathematical degree, and/or technical work experience
- Experience with Agile software methodologies
- MBA preferred
Level and salary to be determined by experience and education.
PlayFirst, Inc. offers competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability, Flex plans, 401(k) and generous paid time off. We offer a unique culture emphasizing a collaborative work environment where high-performers can thrive.
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.
