\nOur Mission: \n\nTo capture the hearts and minds of millions of players across the world by creating unforgettable games powered by the best technology.\n\nAbout Us:\n\nPlayQ is a rapidly growing global entertainment and technology company delivering high-quality mobile titles and innovative game development solutions to a worldwide audience. Our games have been downloaded more than 60 million times across the globe, with millions of users playing every day! \n\nOur dedicated teams, based in downtown Santa Monica, CA, work together to craft the clever, visually stunning, and unforgettable experiences that our players love. Our emphasis on individual leadership means each team member has the opportunity to make a big impact, while our commitment to creative freedom gives them the ability to create whatever they can imagine. \n\nIt’s this mindset that has led us to develop our own IP, infuse games with rich storytelling, build our own development tools, and solve the deepest technical challenges - all in the name of disrupting the mobile gaming landscape.\n\nWhy you'll want to come to work:\n\nPlayQ is looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to help drive the performance of our world-class mobile titles. As a key member of the Product team, you will work closely with Design, Engineering, UA, Art and Data to build seamless product experiences that reach millions of players. \n\nIn this role, you will guide the development of features as well as design and deploy experiments, analyze and interpret data, deliver insights and make actionable recommendations that will shape our games and engage our global audience. \n\nYou would be a perfect match for this position if you thrive in a heavily collaborative and iterative environment, and want to leverage your product expertise to shape outstanding mobile games. You are also enthusiastic about leveraging data to solve problems and drive results and you are excited by the opportunity to make a visible impact on our games.\n\nWhat you'll get to create:\n\n\n* Feature Development, Experimentation, and Analysis\n\n\n\n* Work closely with data, design, and engineering on feature spec documents to facilitate effective collaboration among cross-functional teams and contribute to the successful delivery of high-quality features that meet user needs and business objectives\n\n* Take ownership of various aspects of a feature's lifecycle, including ideation, definition, delivery to the end-users and optimization across different sprints to ensure timely delivery and prioritization of tasks.\n\n* Provide support to Production and Game Teams throughout the sprint from features inception to completion\n\n* Use existing game data to tune features in order to maximize performance and create segmented experiences for different user cohorts \n\n* Design experiments that drive measurable business value using a hypothesis-driven approach and execute them flawlessly\n\n* Conduct various data analyses and create actionable recommendations that drive business value\n\n\n\n* Driving and Managing Game Performance\n\n\n\n* Own performance and oversee live-ops; define and communicate live event schedule, analyze performance, and ensure seamless execution of live events\n\n* Proactively manage the health of the in-game economy\n\n* Play a role in shaping and implementing monetization strategies for in-app purchases (IAP) and Ads\n\n\n\n* Product Roadmap and Strategy\n\n\n\n* Identify areas of opportunity to improve KPIs, and prioritize focus areas to impact business goals\n\n* Support the Product leads in defining and iterating the direction and strategy of our mobile portfolio \n\n* Develop Product Frameworks that effectively and efficiently support the execution and management of our games\n\n* Conduct ongoing competitive analysis and keep up to date with gaming industry trends\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring to the team: \n\n\n* B.S./B.A. degree from an accredited college/university\n\n* 5-10 years product management experience, preferably in mobile gaming\n\n* 2+ years of experience managing a live game\n\n* Proven track record in successfully managing the development of multiple concurrent features\n\n* Demonstrated success in designing impactful product features \n\n* Expertise of Mobile Gaming KPIs and how to affect them\n\n* Robust experience with data analysis\n\n* Ability to leverage Looker and SQL/ other querying languages\n\n* Utilize proven strategies to plan, execute, and analyze A/B tests to drive data-informed decisions and optimize product performance  \n\n* Must be able to work closely with executive leadership to deliver our product goals \n\n* Ability to work cross-functionally with Design, Engineering, Art, and Data teams\n\n* Excellent verbal and written communication skills\n\n* Impeccable organization skills \n\n* Strong time management skills and ability to successfully hit deadlines\n\n* Self-starter and motivated to work within a fast-paced environment\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points:\n\n\n* Experience in an engineering role, and familiarity with game development\n\n\n\n\nIf you gotten this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in PlayQ's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.\n\nWhat we can offer you:\n\n\n* Competitive compensation and equity options\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, long term disability & pet insurance\n\n* Flexible time off\n\n* Unmatched learning opportunities and mission driven team\n\n* Advancement and mentorship opportunities\n\n* 401K plan with company match\n\n* Flexible Workplace: PlayQ’s workplace includes a combination of both in-office, hybrid and remote roles. Our flexible approach to the workplace experience, internal comms, and tech stack promote collaboration, communication, and camaraderie!\n\n* Brand new creative office space equipped with tons of natural light, communal areas for collaboration and free parking\n\n* Walking distance to restaurants, coffee shops, and the metro\n\n* Stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages\n\n* Monthly team building events and cross departmental lunches\n\n* Help build and support awesome GAMES. For a living! Who doesn't love games?\n\n\n\n\nAt PlayQ, we leverage competitive benchmarking data when setting each role’s base pay range. Individual base salary will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, scope of role, business need and geographic location.\n\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.\n\n$130,000-$180,000 USD\n\nAdditional information:\n\n\n* In-office location: Santa Monica, CA\n\n* This role is open to remote employees located in select US states including California, Washington, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and Georgia.\n\n* This role is offered as a full time position.\n\n\n\n\nInterested? Please get in touch! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Mobile and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLas Vegas, Nevada, United States

\nOur Mission: \n\nTo capture the hearts and minds of millions of players across the world by creating unforgettable games powered by the best technology.\n\nAbout Us:\n\nPlayQ is a rapidly growing global entertainment and technology company delivering high-quality mobile titles and innovative game development solutions to a worldwide audience. Our games have been downloaded more than 60 million times across the globe, with millions of users playing every day! \n\nOur dedicated teams, based in downtown Santa Monica, CA, work together to craft the clever, visually stunning, and unforgettable experiences that our players love. Our emphasis on individual leadership means each team member has the opportunity to make a big impact, while our commitment to creative freedom gives them the ability to create whatever they can imagine. \n\nIt’s this mindset that has led us to develop our own IP, infuse games with rich storytelling, build our own development tools, and solve the deepest technical challenges - all in the name of disrupting the mobile gaming landscape.\n\nWhy you'll want to come to work:\n\nAs our Senior Manager, People Operations you’ll be responsible for our most valuable asset - our people. This opportunity calls for an innovative people and culture champion to work alongside our business leaders to develop a high-performing workplace. \n\nIn this role, you’ll work closely with the VP, People to create and implement a variety of key people programs and refine internal people processes and systems to enable our teams to do their best work. We’re seeking a true people expert, with proven success in a growing company, to strategically evolve our performance development, total rewards, organizational design and employee engagement programs.  As an ambassador for PlayQ culture, you’ll work closely with a variety of people across all departments and be the 'go to' person for building a great place to work. \n\nThis is an ideal position for a professional who wants to roll up their sleeves and get involved in all parts of the people function from operations to business partner work. We are looking for someone who is excited by  delivering impactful results and fostering cohesion for a global team. If you’re passionate about creating a meaningful work experience for our team, we’d love to hear from you! \n\nWhat you'll get to create:\n\n\n* Execute on all aspects of people operations within a comprehensive people strategy aligned with the PlayQ’s chartered path\n\n* Optimize key people programs including but not limited to: performance development, organizational planning, total rewards, and internal processes/communication\n\n* Work closely with the Director, Talent to onboard and retain top talent\n\n* Design and implement learning and development programs to enhance employee skills in line with evolving business objectives. \n\n* Provide proactive Business Partner support to managers and employees across the organization\n\n* Develop relationships as a trusted and reliable people resource for our team by effectively troubleshooting both people and operational issues \n\n* Leverage data to guide strategic decisions; proactively find ways to collect and utilize data \n\n* Own and enhance all people technology system usage; optimize technology for automation and efficiency whenever possible\n\n* Oversee all day-to-day people administration including immigration coordination, payroll and benefits administration, annual open enrollment, compliance, employee relations and other miscellaneous people processes\n\n* Own all aspects of employee onboarding and offboarding \n\n* Establish opportunities for meaningful team engagement by reimagining current company events, communication, activities and daily interactions  \n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring to the team: \n\n\n* Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.\n\n* 7-10+ years of HR/People Operations experience in a startup and/or mid-size organization\n\n* Strong Google Sheets or Excel skills\n\n* Interest in and resourcefulness around technology, especially HR platforms\n\n* Highly principled and trustworthy\n\n* Effective presentation skills and experience leading training programs \n\n* Experience successfully building, implementing and adopting people programs and initiatives\n\n* Experience working with a global team\n\n* Strong communicator, both written and verbal\n\n* Ability to establish strong relationships with people at all levels of the organization\n\n* Strong sense of integrity and confidentiality \n\n* Strikingly unique balance of excellent communication and time management skills coupled with an extreme attention to detail and sense of urgency\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points:\n\n\n* Experience using various people tools such as Rippling, Human Interest, 15Five and Greenhouse\n\n\n\n\nIf you gotten this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in PlayQ's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.\n\nWhat we can offer you:\n\n\n* Competitive compensation\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, long term disability & pet insurance\n\n* Flexible time off\n\n* Unmatched learning opportunities and mission driven team\n\n* Advancement and mentorship opportunities\n\n* 401K plan with company match\n\n* Flexible Workplace: PlayQ’s workplace includes a combination of both in-office, hybrid and remote roles. Our flexible approach to the workplace experience, internal comms, and tech stack promote collaboration, communication, and camaraderie!\n\n* Brand new creative office space equipped with tons of natural light, communal areas for collaboration and free parking\n\n* Walking distance to restaurants, coffee shops, and the metro\n\n* Stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages\n\n* Monthly team building events and cross departmental lunches\n\n* Help build and support awesome GAMES. For a living! Who doesn't love games?\n\n\n\n\nAt PlayQ, we leverage competitive benchmarking data when setting each role’s base pay range. Individual base salary will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, scope of role, business need and geographic location.\n\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.\n\n$100,000-$150,000 USD\n\nAdditional information:\n\n\n* In-office location: Santa Monica, CA\n\n* This role is open to remote employees located in select US states including California, Washington, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and Georgia.\n\n* This role is offered as a full time position.\n\n\n\n\nInterested? Please get in touch! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Mobile, Senior and Excel jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $95,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, California, United States

\nOur Mission: \n\nTo capture the hearts and minds of millions of players across the world by creating unforgettable games powered by the best technology.\n\nAbout Us:\n\nPlayQ is a rapidly growing global entertainment and technology company delivering high-quality mobile titles and innovative game development solutions to a worldwide audience. Our games have been downloaded more than 60 million times across the globe, with millions of users playing every day! \n\nOur dedicated teams, based in downtown Santa Monica, CA, work together to craft the clever, visually stunning, and unforgettable experiences that our players love. Our emphasis on individual leadership means each team member has the opportunity to make a big impact, while our commitment to creative freedom gives them the ability to create whatever they can imagine. \n\nIt’s this mindset that has led us to develop our own IP, infuse games with rich storytelling, build our own development tools, and solve the deepest technical challenges - all in the name of disrupting the mobile gaming landscape.\n\nWhy you'll want to come to work:\n\nAs our Senior Manager, People Operations you’ll be responsible for our most valuable asset - our people. This opportunity calls for an innovative people and culture champion to work alongside our business leaders to develop a high-performing workplace. \n\nIn this role, you’ll work closely with the VP, People to create and implement a variety of key people programs and refine internal people processes and systems to enable our teams to do their best work. We’re seeking a true people expert, with proven success in a growing company, to strategically evolve our performance development, total rewards, organizational design and employee engagement programs.  As an ambassador for PlayQ culture, you’ll work closely with a variety of people across all departments and be the 'go to' person for building a great place to work. \n\nThis is an ideal position for a professional who wants to roll up their sleeves and get involved in all parts of the people function from operations to business partner work. We are looking for someone who is excited by  delivering impactful results and fostering cohesion for a global team. If you’re passionate about creating a meaningful work experience for our team, we’d love to hear from you! \n\nWhat you'll get to create:\n\n\n* Execute on all aspects of people operations within a comprehensive people strategy aligned with the PlayQ’s chartered path\n\n* Optimize key people programs including but not limited to: performance development, organizational planning, total rewards, and internal processes/communication\n\n* Work closely with the Director, Talent to onboard and retain top talent\n\n* Design and implement learning and development programs to enhance employee skills in line with evolving business objectives. \n\n* Provide proactive Business Partner support to managers and employees across the organization\n\n* Develop relationships as a trusted and reliable people resource for our team by effectively troubleshooting both people and operational issues \n\n* Leverage data to guide strategic decisions; proactively find ways to collect and utilize data \n\n* Own and enhance all people technology system usage; optimize technology for automation and efficiency whenever possible\n\n* Oversee all day-to-day people administration including immigration coordination, payroll and benefits administration, annual open enrollment, compliance, employee relations and other miscellaneous people processes\n\n* Own all aspects of employee onboarding and offboarding \n\n* Establish opportunities for meaningful team engagement by reimagining current company events, communication, activities and daily interactions  \n\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring to the team: \n\n\n* Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.\n\n* 7-10+ years of HR/People Operations experience in a startup and/or mid-size organization\n\n* Strong Google Sheets or Excel skills\n\n* Interest in and resourcefulness around technology, especially HR platforms\n\n* Highly principled and trustworthy\n\n* Effective presentation skills and experience leading training programs \n\n* Experience successfully building, implementing and adopting people programs and initiatives\n\n* Experience working with a global team\n\n* Strong communicator, both written and verbal\n\n* Ability to establish strong relationships with people at all levels of the organization\n\n* Strong sense of integrity and confidentiality \n\n* Strikingly unique balance of excellent communication and time management skills coupled with an extreme attention to detail and sense of urgency\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points:\n\n\n* Experience using various people tools such as Rippling, Human Interest, 15Five and Greenhouse\n\n\n\n\nIf you gotten this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in PlayQ's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.\n\nWhat we can offer you:\n\n\n* Competitive compensation\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, long term disability & pet insurance\n\n* Flexible time off\n\n* Unmatched learning opportunities and mission driven team\n\n* Advancement and mentorship opportunities\n\n* 401K plan with company match\n\n* Flexible Workplace: PlayQ’s workplace includes a combination of both in-office, hybrid and remote roles. Our flexible approach to the workplace experience, internal comms, and tech stack promote collaboration, communication, and camaraderie!\n\n* Brand new creative office space equipped with tons of natural light, communal areas for collaboration and free parking\n\n* Walking distance to restaurants, coffee shops, and the metro\n\n* Stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages\n\n* Monthly team building events and cross departmental lunches\n\n* Help build and support awesome GAMES. For a living! Who doesn't love games?\n\n\n\n\nAt PlayQ, we leverage competitive benchmarking data when setting each role’s base pay range. Individual base salary will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, scope of role, business need and geographic location.\n\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.\n\n$100,000-$150,000 USD\n\nAdditional information:\n\n\n* In-office location: Santa Monica, CA\n\n* This role is open to remote employees located in select US states including California, Washington, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and Georgia.\n\n* This role is offered as a full time position.\n\n\n\n\nInterested? Please get in touch! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Mobile, Senior and Excel jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $95,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nAustin, Texas, United States

\n\n\n\n***This position has the flexibility to be fully remote***\n\nManager, UX Design\n\n\n\nSony Bend Studio, renowned creator of Days Gone, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and Syphon Filter, is looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our passionate and creative family in crafting our next high-profile AAA console title.\n\nWe're on the hunt for an exceptional Manager, UX Design who will elevate the UX discipline for our product and studio. Are you a positive manager and hands on contributor who can drive the creation of top-notch experiences for our players while demonstrating outstanding leadership qualities? In this role, empower your team while working alongside the creative director and craft leads to develop the UX vision and strategy for products in development. You'll be responsible for evangelizing your team's vision across the studio and encouraging the team through UX principles, best practices, and strategies.\nRequirements\n\n\n* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Game Design, UX Design, interaction design, human-computer interaction, or psychology.\n\n* 7-10 years of senior experience in UX roles within the video game industry or related fields, with leadership experience.\n\n* Excellent management and communication skills, able to inspire team members, and provide constructive feedback.\n\n* Experience with in-game UI design processes and tools, and coordinating the creation of UI/UX deliverables. Proprietary engine experience is a plus.\n\n* Commitment to inclusive design and fostering diverse talent within the team.\n\n* Proficiency in agile methodologies and fundamental UX and technical design principles.\n\n* A holistic approach to design, with an ability to iterate effectively.\n\n* Skill in translating analytical findings into actionable insights for decision-making.\n\n* Passion for user-centered design solutions and educating others about them.\n\n* Familiarity with a variety of popular gaming models.\n\n* In-depth knowledge of and passion for the latest trends in the gaming industry.\n\n* Willingness to support the team with hands-on contributions when necessary.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Lead and articulate the product UX vision to leadership, team, and the wider organization while ensuring user-centric, high-quality experiences.\n\n* Mentor the team, providing management and coaching, and collaborate with studio leadership on recruitment and development.\n\n* Champion accessibility in design and maintain a comprehensive, growing knowledge base.\n\n* Nurture collaborative relationships with stakeholders, troubleshoot interdepartmental workflow issues, and uphold high standards for all UI.\n\n* Manage task prioritization within the team and self to meet deadlines and respect technical constraints, while also refining the team’s tools and pipelines.\n\n* Collectively interpret player behaviors and needs to enhance the gaming experience.\n\n* Convey experience design through user stories, flow charts, user journeys, wireframes, and prototypes that effectively illustrate user needs.\n\n* Encourage UX best practices across the studio.\n\n* If you're passionate about creating incredible player experiences and possess the skills we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your resume and portfolio.\n\n\n\n\n\n#LI-DL2 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Designer, Video and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $45,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nBend, Oregon, United States