Product Manager - Gearbox

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We are looking for a Product Manager to join the 2K:
Core Games Product team focused on working with Gearbox Studios. Your role will be to help strategically shape content, live service, and monetization plans to marry player value and commercial goals. You will work closely with studios, product leadership, and other product managers to develop, guide, implement, and optimize the strategies supporting the creative vision of the products in our portfolio.

You will be responsible for identifying and prioritizing Product Management needs across multiple projects. You will represent Product Management to executive stakeholders across both the studio and 2K, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and driving the successful execution of product initiatives.

Closely collaborate with development and publishing teams to define product priorities for multiple projects, including:

• Develop deep expertise in the games in your portfolio and their competition. Lead critical initiatives, manage priorities, and share valuable insights across the portfolio and Product teams to continue to evolve our product strategy.
• Lead and drive the process of evaluating product market fit for our games, working cross functionally to strategically impact product direction for multiple titles throughout the full development lifecycle, from concept to post-launch.
• Provide insights-backed product recommendations to studios, collaborating with insights teams (Data Science, Consumer Insights, UXR) to analyze player behavior, assess product performance, and guide product priorities and roadmaps.
• Define telemetry needs, critical metrics, reporting, and analyses needed to develop insights into player behaviors in partnership with the Analytics team. Analyze data and translate it into insights and strategies that enable us to meet and exceed core franchise targets.
• Work alongside Commercial Growth teams to build strategies for pricing, in-game promotions, SKUs, and ongoing content.
• Lead and prioritize the work of other Product Managers and Data Analysts, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and the delivery of high-quality results.
• Market Intelligence – Deliver research on the competitive landscape, trends, competitor products, including product teardowns and competitive analysis.
• Be the Product Champion – Share insights, processes, and lessons learned with other studio & publishing teams.
• Be the Player Advocate – Understand and advocate for the player’s perspective to ensure…