Palo Alto, CA Senior Technical Product Manager
Company Profile
Live Gamer Inc. is the global leader of total commerce solutions for micro-transaction-based businesses. Spanning online games, virtual worlds, and social networks, Live Gamer provides an advanced offering that goes beyond monetization to drive core business metrics and optimize new transaction-based revenue streams. Combining its micro-transaction platform, primary and secondary market management, fraud and security solutions, scalable publisher support and international payment gateways, Live Gamer’s technology has been adopted by leading publishers in gaming, social and entertainment and supports over 65 million users in 23 countries. Headquartered in New York, NY our rapidly growing company also has offices in Palo Alto, California and Seoul, Korea. To find out more about Live Gamer please visit our website www.livegamer.com.
Description
Live Gamer is currently looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to join our rapidly growing team. In this position, you will work closely with Sales, Product Development, Partners and Customers to assess requirements and prioritize feature requests.
Responsibilities
- Develop concise, complete functional designs of use cases and user stories for all releases.
- Participate in sales meetings, conferences, and generating RFP responses (both in order to both assist the sales organization and to get “on the ground” feedback from prospects).
- Act as the product owner and user advocate throughout the product life cycle.
- Decision maker on multiple major initiatives.
- Actively communicate about our product, its features, and best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years product management experience.
- Proven track record of defining product requirements, creating alignment on prioritization, and successfully bringing products to market.
- Ability to command respect from a highly skilled engineering team.
- Strong sense of ownership.
- A strong technical background and understanding of SAAS platforms.
- Experience and success working in Agile environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to step into a small dynamic company and hit the ground running.
- Enjoy taking ownership of key existing components and new product functionality.
- Excellent public speaking skills and must enjoy doing product demos in public or in front of small groups.
- Hard working team player.
Ideal Qualifications
- Experience managing partnerships with component and solution providers.
- Deep experience in payments, analytics, or accounting.
- Prior experience defining B2B products for the core gaming industry.
- Experience writing technical documents (e.g. blog entries and whitepapers).
Benefits
We provide our employees with competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and stock options; plus a great work environment with awesome coworkers and challenging projects.
How to Apply
Qualified applicants should send your resume and a cover letter summarizing how your background matches the requirements to jobs@livegamer.com Please use Senior Technical Product Manager in the subject line of your email.
Thank you for your interest in Live Gamer, Inc.
Proof of authorization to work in the United States is required.
No agency solicitations, please.
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