What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director of Product position at 2K?
Who We Are
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, and HB Studios. 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 our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.
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 are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.
2K is headquartered in Novato, California, and is a wholly-owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).
What We Need:
2K is looking for an exceptional leader to join our Product Team. This role will work alongside technical leaders and executive staff to build a long-term strategy, lead product and company-wide initiatives, and drive execution to ship mobile, web, and desktop experiences that have a direct impact on over 100 million players every year.
Additional priorities for this role include defining the systems, strategy, and experiences that attract, retain, and engage the greatest gamers in the world. This role will drive building the backend and business systems to help facilitate faster, better, and more unified development across the Worldwide network of Studios.
What You Will Do:
- Lead, build and mentor a new and evolving Product team.
- Partner with Product Management leads their direct reports, and cross-functional counterparts to define the 2K product roadmap, vision, and strategy for how we build experiences and engagement products across our applications.
- Manage team budgets, metrics, and resource needs. Present recommendations to senior leadership to ensure a positive impact on the product roadmap and overall metrics.
- Advocate the product vision and strategy, monitor product progression.
- Participate in discussions about why customers engage with our products. Become their voice and represent their needs throughout the development process.
- Define clear and concise focus areas based on desired business outcomes, priorities to improve, and defining milestones to achieve goals.
- Work closely with our product teams to develop new features and workflows that help unlock the potential of all teams to deliver more value to our players.
Who We Think Will Be a Great Fit:
- "Hands-on", likes to dive deep and solve problems, detail-oriented
- Creative and possess the ability to have a “big picture” viewpoint
- Experience managing scalability and End-to-End lifecycle of the product
Desired Skills:
- Minimum of (10 ) years of product management and/or product development experience
- Excellent oral/written communication and presentation skills.
- Strong ability to influence people and build rapport at all levels and in various functions.
- Passionate about games/entertainment products and creating fun and engaging products for players.
- Knowledge of multi-cloud solutions (AWS, Google, Azure)
- Willing to travel up to 25% of the time
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need a reasonable accommodation.
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