Technical Product Manager

Team Name:

Battle.net & Online Products

Job Title:

Technical Product Manager

Requisition ID:

R021454

Job Description:

Product Manager, Access

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Product Manager to help us build the ultimate platform for online entertainment that enables gamers to engage in Blizzard's legendary worlds.

The Battle.net group handles a large number of projects that are not tied to individual games but are shared among all of Blizzard's games past and future. This position will help define and execute the vision for various online services, engage with engineering teams, and collaborate with game team partners. You will interact with senior technical leaders and engineers for all games at Blizzard, as well as senior managers within Battle.net.

Ideally you will have prior experience running complex projects, the right balance of technical and soft skills, experience with large-scale complex online services, a passion for building great services end-to-end, the organizational skills to drive quality across organizations, and the ability to partner with different types of people successfully. Whew! It's a tall order. You've got this.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a product portfolio of mission critical APIs, services, and user-facing interfaces and drive their continual improvement.
• Develop detailed product specifications with use cases, scenarios, and system designs.
• As a product manager, ensure products you own address business needs and add business value.
• Balance competing requirements and dependencies across cross-functional teams.
• Build and develop your team's roadmaps and related deliverables.
• Own and drive internal and external relationships and communications with key partners.
• Ability to juggle and prioritize tasks on a resource constrained team, but amazingly still able to achieve the team's goals.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience as a Product Manager.
• Strong product management skills: product sense, execution, success goals measurement and metrics.
• Possess the technical acumen to understand software architecture.
• Experience working with developers to build products and features.
• Ability to understand and improve products and user pain points, despite the lack of proper tech documentation.
• Ability to run queries in order to identify meaningful data and track KPIs.
• Experience working in a server / service development environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills in English.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a love for collaboration.
• Self-motivated with strong initiative.
• Able to succeed in a chaotic and ambiguous environment.
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence.
• Real passion for Blizzard games.

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work / life balance. We've worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for growth. Our people are everything. Our values are real, and our mission has never changed. Blizzard dedicated itself to creating the most entertainment experiencesever. Join us.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $97,200.00 - $179,900.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.