Product Manager

About Pocket Worlds

Our mission is to make the metaverse a reality and our vision is a decentralized virtual world built and owned by its citizens.

We have been working towards this mission for a decade. We are the creators of Highrise, the first virtual world on mobile, which has seen extraordinary growth over the last few years and now boasts over 20 million users across iOS and Android. Every day, the citizens of Highrise come together to hangout, explore, create, collect, and trade in our metaverse, and we are on the precipice of making history once again with our expansion into Highrise World.

About This Role

As a Product Manager at Pocket Worlds, you could be working on new technologies, platforms, and consumer-facing products. You will work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds. You will break down complex problems into steps that drive product development.

Along the way, you and your team will be building:

• Highrise Studio. The UGC toolkit for users to craft environments, experiences, and content to populate the metaverse.
• Highrise Social. The connecting social fabric of our world, this allows our users to meet and connect with each other in brand new ways not possible with any other virtual world.
• Highrise Marketplace. Completing the loop between creator and consumer, the Highrise Marketplace is bringing a true e-commerce experience to the virtual world.

This is a key role in our journey to build the metaverse. Join us and you'll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won't find anywhere else.

This role is remote, as is the entire company, but applicants from North & South America, Canada are preferred.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of technical product management experience such as creating strategic product roadmaps and working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience driving product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.
• Experience developing Internet products and technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technology or business-related field.
• Experience managing day-to-day technical and design direction.
• Experience effectively working with multiple functional areas such as Product Management, Engineering, UX/UI, Customer Support, Finance, or Marketing.
• Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Understand markets, product, competition, and user requirements in depth.
• Launch new products and features, test their performance, and iterate quickly.
• Work collaboratively with engineering, marketing, legal, UX, and other teams on cutting-edge technologies.
• Develop solutions to problems by collaborating as needed across regions, product areas, and functions.

Closing

Our goal is to define the future of the metaverse with the product we build, and to grow from tens of millions to billions of users in the process. Pocket Worlds is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Join us on this journey and together we will build something incredible.