Product Manager, Direct to Consumer

Activision Blizzard,Inc.; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and vacation

Job summary

Activision Blizzard,Inc. in Santa Monica, CA is seeking a Product Manager, Direct to Consumer to shape the strategy and roadmap for the Call of Duty: Mobile store.

You will drive revenue growth through data-driven analysis, experiments, and partnering with internal teams and Tencent in China to align on plans. You will report to the Associate Director of Product, Direct to Consumer, and work onsite four days a week at our Santa Monica office.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience.
• Ability to synthesize insights from analysis to diagnose root causes and generate recommendations.
• Experience using SQL, Tableau, Excel, or other analytics tools to generate insights.
• Experience using AI tools to improve quality and efficiency of work.
• Strong influence skills to work with cross-functional teams.
• Strong execution skills with a bias to action and track record in hitting business outcomes.
• Strong structured and critical thinking to define strategy and plan to hit goals.
• Willingness to do meetings in the evening with colleagues in Asia (once or twice a week).

Responsibilities

• Drive direct to consumer revenue growth.
• Generate deep understanding of direct to consumer performance through analysis and research.
• Improve offers, promotions, loyalty, checkout, personalization, and growth experiments to shape roadmap.
• Design, execute and analyze A/B tests and apply learnings to roadmap.
• Collaborate with internal teams and payment partners to improve store design and value propositions.
• Communicate performance, plans, and improvements to stakeholders across the organization.

Skills

Product management

SQL/Excel

AI tools

Cross-functional

Execution

Structured thinking

Evening meetings

Job description

Job Title:

Product Manager, Direct to Consumer

Requisition ID:

R028088

Job Description:

Job Title: Product Manager

Reporting To: Associate Director of Product

Department: Call of Duty: Mobile Product Team

Location: Santa Monica, California

Your Mission

As a Product Manager, you will help drive growth of direct to consumer revenues for Call of Duty: Mobile, including our own web store and third party stores. You will help design the strategy and roadmap, ideate improvements, and generate insights from looking at performance, to drive revenue growth.

You will lead and partner closely with various stakeholder groups, including our external web store payment partners, product team, marketing team, and CODM development team at Tencent in China, to gain alignment and execute on your plans. You will also generate robust analysis and actionable insights into the performance of the store, to inform our future direction. You’ll report to the Associate Director of Product, Direct to Consumer, who leads our direct to consumer efforts.

This role is based in our Santa Monica, CA office and follows an onsite work schedule of four days per week. Work arrangements may change at the company's discretion to meet business needs.

Main responsibilities

• Drive direct to consumer revenue growth

• Generate a deep understanding of our direct to consumer performance through analysis and player research

• Generate ideas to improve our exclusive offers, seasonal promotions, loyalty/retention offers, checkout improvements, personalization features, and growth experiments, to improve our overall roadmap and strategy

• Ideate, design, execute and analyze A/B tests, and apply learnings to improve our roadmap

• Work closely with our internal teams and payment partners to improve our store design and value propositions, and our marketing team to drive more traffic to the store

• Communicate performance, product plans, and improvement recommendations to stakeholders across the organization

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product management or another relevant role

• Able to clearly synthesize insights from analysis and research to diagnose root causes of problems and generate recommendations

• Experience using SQL, Tableau, Excel, or other analytical tools to generate insights from data

• Experience using AI tools to help improve the quality and efficiency of your work

• Strong influence skills, able to work well with others across cross-functional teams

• Strong execution skills with bias to action and track record in hitting business outcomes

• Strong structured and critical thinking skills, able to define a strategy and build a plan to hit goals

• Able to do meetings in the evening with colleagues in Asia (typically no more than once or twice a week)

Extra Points

• Experience with similar mobile games or on similar direct-to-consumer initiatives is helpful but not required for this role

• Basic understanding of statistics, including experience with A/B testing

Our World

At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We're driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Guitar Hero.

We're not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; we're forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the world. We have bold ambitions to create the most inclusive company as we know our success comes from the passionate, creative, and diverse teams within our organization.

We're in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our player community to enjoy. And our future opportunities have never been greater - this could be your opportunity to level up.

We're committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to [e-mail]. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

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 $114,080.00 - $211,048.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.