Destiny Principal Product Manager, Bungie
Systems
$176-202k
Plus discretionary bonus opportunities
More information about location
Video game studio
Job no longer available
Video game studio
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$176-202k
Plus discretionary bonus opportunities
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create hopeful worlds that inspire passionate player communities and lifelong friendships.
Role
Who you are
- Proven business acumen with strategic and analytical capabilities, using data to inform strategic and business decisions
- Ability to guide complex operational and strategic change initiatives
- Experience managing live games, web/social/mobile experiences, and customer-centric software and services
- Excellent strategic thinking, problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making capabilities
- Experience building tooling focused on live ops needs
- Good understanding of statistics, hypothesis testing, and scientific methods
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to guide cross-team initiatives across marketing, game development, and team leadership
- Experience motivating, leading, and inspiring highly skilled teams, direct management experience is a plus!
- Deep passion for games and ability to analyze and break down the components of what makes a successful live game
What the job involves
- Bungie is looking for a Principal Product Manager to guide Destiny in the conception and execution of sustainable in-game systems. This role will be a key contributor in helping define and execute the product and commercial strategy
- Using data, insights, user testing, and creative solutions, you'll inform product development with a keen sense on critical product KPI’s and game health
- Under the guidance of the Director of Product Management, you will partner closely with the game development, marketing, and publishing teams to plan and deliver top-notch experiences and that our players are excited about
- Drive product management on Live Ops strategies for Destiny around tooling development, SKU management, player segmentation, and in-game retention and monetization
- Operate as part of the Systems Leadership team, prioritizing the roadmap for Destiny Systems feature development
- Communicate and collaborate with leadership across development and Publishing to help us successfully develop features best targeted to consumers, support ongoing live efforts, and improve internal processes
- Manage and mentor a team of Product Managers on the Systems team that oversee storefront, merchandising, and live operations retention strategy
- Partner with Commerce, Publishing and Central Tech teams to prioritize the backlog and roadmap for live ops tooling efforts
- Provide input and act as a key decision-maker in the development of live ops tooling
- Leverage existing systems and develop new systems and optimize the player experience to drive engagement and monetization
- Own, track, and report on metrics and KPIs that measure and reflect customer success, driving ongoing initiatives to meet forecast targets
- Build the holistic upsell strategy, drive alignment, and deliver the execution with development teams to ensure engagement and conversion
- Deliver consolidated updates on live ops performance to the leadership team
- Work closely with analytics to define Telemetry needs, build hypotheses, and track KPIs surrounding live ops performance
Our take
As one of the leading video game companies in the US, Bungie’s former titles have included bestselling game franchises such as Halo and Destiny, marking it as a next-gen studio that is keeping its finger on the next-gen games console pulse.
Bungie scaled up in the early noughties thanks to an acquisition by Microsoft, leading to a period where Bungie made games for a variety of consoles. In 2022, it was bought by Sony for $3.6 billion, though it claims that it will still work across different platforms despite its owner’s lean towards PlayStation.
Indeed, Sony claims to have bought Bungie for its help in entering the live service games market. In return, Bungie will benefit by scaling up its team for new game and DLC releases. This is a promising direction, although it is worth noting that the underperformance of Destiny 2 has cast a few worries on the nature of Bungie's independent future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2018
$100m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Contract and International FTE employees receive competitive benefits through their relevant contracting agency
- 20 days of accrued time-off in the form of PTO and sabbatical days, depending on the level of the position
- 10 paid Floating Days annually, prorated in the first year of employment based on start date
- 10 paid Bungie-observed holidays annually
- One hour of Paid Sick Time (PST) for every 30 hours worked
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Pete Parsons
(CEO & Chairman)Currently Board member for Boys and Girls Clubs of Bellevue. Previously Co-Founder and Inventor of Meteor Solutions, and an Executive Producer at Microsoft.
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