Senior Product Manager, Hearthstone

Team Name:

Hearthstone

Job Title:

Senior Product Manager, Hearthstone

Requisition ID:

R025130

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Hearthstone | Irvine, CA

Department: Hearthstone

Location: Irvine, CA

Your Mission:

Blizzard is looking for an exceptional Senior Product Manager to join us in shaping the future of Hearthstone. We are looking for candidates with experience managing free-to-play games, owning business outcomes and delivering features that meaningfully improve metrics and enhance the player experience.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA

What you bring to the table:

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities

• Drive commercial success and player engagement by forming hypotheses, setting KPI targets, analyzing product performance and iterating on feature design.  

• Drive the design and implementation of new features to improve target KPIs, with the ability of innovating and/or learning from established best practices. 

• Become an expert on Hearthstone and the competitive landscape of mid-core games, so that you have a deep understanding of our players’ motivations and desires from a global perspective. 

• Provide valuable insights on LiveOps performance and apply LiveOps strategies that deliver high-performant retention and monetization metrics 

• Conduct rigorous testing, post-mortem analysis, and player/competitor research to continuously optimize business planning and execution 

• Work with game team and game leadership to lead and iterate upon the game’s business strategy to build a cohesive product roadmap 

• Write clear and actionable product specifications, and effectively communicate ideas to the team for implementation 

• Lead the analysis of game data to draw actionable learnings and provide valuable insights

• Be a player champion!

Minimum Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in game product management 

• Demonstrated analytical skills, with a focus on data-driven decision making 

• Love for games and creating fun & compelling player experiences 

• Passionate, self-motivated, and driven to create and execute great ideas cross-functionally 

• Able to operate in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment and find creative ways to get things done 

• Outstanding communication, collaboration, and organizational abilities 

• Business, quantitative, technical, or design degree a plus

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

 

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our empl