Product Manager

About SoStronk

SoStronk is a 30 person strong team of gamers, storytellers, engineers, designers and trailblazers who are disrupting gaming and esports at scale. We have built market leading platforms in the esports space for over 5 years and are now positioned for meteoric growth with our latest social gaming platform - IMBR (I am Battle Ready). 

Funded by some of the leading strategics in the space - Dream11 (Dream Capital) & Nodwin Gaming (Krafton), IMBR is well on its way to becoming a category creating social gaming platform.  

Who you are:

We’re looking for an experienced product manager who has had success building out digital products, preferably in the B2C space. A data-driven individual who is just as passionate about data visualization and analytics as they are interested in deconstructing apps, human psychology and gamification.  

Our ideal squad-mate has high product sense, is excited by navigating the unknown, collaborating, succeeding and building amazing, industry-leading products: someone who can work iteratively but also knows when it’s time to dream big and shake things up. You are or have

• 3+ years as a PM:  shipping impactful features and products. Startup experience is preferred, ideally in gaming/B2C space.
• User-obsessed. You are deeply empathetic, constantly putting yourself in the shoes of the end users, be their psychologist by understanding their internal and external characteristics, be their personal trainer by figuring out what makes them tick so that they achieve their goals.
• Impact-driven. You understand KPI’s and north star metrics. You get excited by measuring impact of features and taking data-informed decisions.You are a wizard with SQL and analytical platforms such as Amplitude, Branch, MoEngage, Clevertap and others. 
• A Renaissance (wo)man. You’re curious. You’re always learning. You’re as comfortable communicating and empathizing with an end user as you are with a designer or engineer
• A good helicopter. You can alternate between 10,000 foot and 10 foot views easily, and at the right time. Big picture product objectives to microscopic feature alignments all in a day’s work.  
• Understand gamification. You are interested in human-centered design and can create features that rely on game design mechanics. 
• Deconstruction obsessed. You believe in the power of product sense as a skill and are constantly leveling it up by researching about it, learning from the best minds in the space and constantly deconstructing apps you frequently use. 
• Scrappy. You’re a hustler who will get your hands dirty and protect your builders at every turn, you will lead from the front, go the extra mile with high agency. 
• A leader. You’re kind, charismatic and humble. Teams want to be in the trenches with you, and to build something great by your side

What You’ll Do:

• Manage product roadmaps. Build trust among stakeholders by collaborating with fellow leads and peers on an constantly evolving product roadmap; with company and product milestones in mind.  
• Become a domain Leader. Maintain expertise of our domain and market trends, competitor analysis as well as being on the pulse of which mid-core games to support next.
• Create squads and execute playtests. Represent the customer in our creation process: create squad (designers, engineers and product folks) based missions which utilize playtest bootcamps to gain customer insights. 
• Be a metric driver. Define metrics for everything you build, measure it and drive it. Use data-informed decision making to get buy-in from all your fellow squad members.
• Be a documentarian extraordinaire. Write product requirements in the form of feature specs, vision docs, user stories, use cases, and user journeys.
• Be the glue. Cross-functionally collaborate with growth, design and engineering to drive the product KPIs further. Driving engagement, retention and monetisation strategies as part of a cross-functional team.
• Be the co-pilot. Work closely alongside the founders in driving the product vision, in particular by being the co-pilot of the CPO.
• Be a master shipper. You will work on a bi-monthly release cycle and part of the job will be to ensure features are shipped in a timely manner by working closely with the senior engineering manager. 

You're also excited by the prospect of rolling up your sleeves to tackle meaningful problems each and every day. You’re a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who seeks and gives candid feedback, and values the chance to make an important impact.

If this sounds like you, you'll fit right in at SoStronk.