Product Manager

Who We Are

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, 31st Union, HB Studios, and 2K SportsLab. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of 2K’s portfolio currently includes several AAA, sports and entertainment brands, including global powerhouse NBA®️ 2K,  renowned BioShock®️, Borderlands®️, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization®️ and XCOM®️ brands; popular WWE®️ 2K and WWE®️ SuperCard franchises, TopSpin 2K25, as well as the critically and commercially acclaimed PGA TOUR®️ 2K

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions, even if they don’t meet every requirement for the role.  If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K, we encourage you to apply!

This role is part of the commercial strategy and operations team, focused on supporting the Firaxis studio and ultimately driving profitable 2K growth. We partner across the organization through influence and relationships to orchestrate a unified, effective, and scalable effort. At any given moment we are the supporter, leader, approver, and/or responsible party with other internal and external teams.

 

What We Need

We are looking for a Product Manager to join the 2K: Core Games Product team focused on our Hangar13 Studios. Your role will be to help inform, research and evangelize product insights and data reporting in support of AAA game development for the Mafia franchise and future IPs. You will work closely with the studio, publishing product leadership, and other 2K cross-functional teams to develop, guide, implement, and optimize the strategies that underpin our current and future franchise directions.

You will be responsible for helping to identify, research and present product opportunities for this business, and for the broader portfolio. You will work with Product Leadership in your business to craft and present materials to stakeholders across both the studio and 2K, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and driving the successful execution of product initiatives.

What You Will Do

Closely collaborate with studio development and publishing teams to support product priorities, including:

●      Provide deep insights in the games in your portfolio and their competition. Help facilitate and lead critical initiatives, manage priorities, and share valuable insights across the portfolio.

●      Help drive the process of understanding the product market fit for our games, working cross functionally and strategically throughout the full development lifecycle, from concept to post-launch.

●      Provide insights-backed product recommendations to your business’s Product Leadership, collaborating directly with insights teams (Data Science, Consumer Insights, UXR) to analyze player behavior, assess product performance, and contribute to product priorities and roadmaps.

●      Help coordinate and define telemetry needs, critical metrics, reporting, and analyses needed to develop insights into player behaviors. Analyze data and translate it into insights and strategies that enable us to meet and exceed core franchise targets.

●      Support Commercial Growth teams and Product Leadership to build strategies for pricing, in-game promotions, SKUs, and ongoing content and monetization approaches.

●      Market Intelligence – Deliver research on the competitive landscape, trends, competitor products, including product teardowns and competitive analysis.

What Will Make You a Great Fit

●      4 - 6 years in the Games Industry, ideally in one of the following, or similar, capacities:

○      AAA Publisher experience, as a Product Manager and/or a Producer.

○      AAA Studio-side game development experience, as a Product Manager, Systems Designer, Economies Designer and/or a Producer.

○      Has helped bring at least 1 AAA game to market in relevant capacity.

●      Data-informed decision maker who is able to balance business priorities, the player perspective, resources, capacity, and developer needs.

●      Strong scenario modeling and data-presentation skills. Proficiency with business intelligence tools and comfortable building models to explore opportunities while working closely with analytics.

●      Experience working with Consumer Insights, User Experience Research, Data Science and other research and insights functions

●      Understand opportunities and gaps within the market, player motivational and persona frameworks, and how to apply that knowledge to influence game direction.

●      Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify, structure, and communicate information for all levels of the organization

●      Alignment-building bias. Preference for collaboration, influence and education to get results.

●      Excel in ambiguous environments and enjoy driving clarity.

Bonus Points

●      Strong critical thinking, strategy, problem-solving, business analysis, and data-informed decision-making capabilities.

●      Engaged learner within the market space and what’s going on in our industry - including constantly updating that understanding.

●      Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau.

●      Formal or self taught education in structured data manipulation languages SQL, VizQL, Python, MDX etc.

 

 

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