Job Description

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 Our USA TODAY PLAY games experience has a highly engaged following and broad audience reach with its challenging and inclusive daily crosswords and other puzzles. We are looking for a product management professional to help develop our rapidly expanding portfolio. You will add new capabilities and features to optimize the playing experience on existing games and will develop new puzzles and games to delight our current players and attract new ones. You’ll report to the Director of Product, Games Experience, and partner with leaders across the organization, including Marketing, Data Intelligence, Engineering, and UX, to build and execute an ambitious roadmap centered on exponentially growing our portfolio and audience. The ideal candidate will be passionate not just about games but about creating great product experiences that deliver impact to business and audience goals. He/she will have a bias toward action, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. The ideal candidate will be as passionate about crafting great products as they are about setting a new high score.

Responsibilities include:

• Translate business and content criteria and objectives into clearly defined requirements that populate a robust roadmap and articulate a product strategy.
• Analyze performance metrics, measure success , and use this data to identify new product opportunities that will build habit-forming engagement among users to play more frequently and subscribe to premium experiences.
• Partner with the engineering and design teams to define user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritize, and conduct user acceptance testing.
• Create intuitive and fun experiences for puzzles and games through continuous experimentation and iteration.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of product management experience
• Bachelor's degree
• An ability to address both user and business needs, creating product solutions.
• Deep experience with agile software development methodology.
• Firm understanding of relevant web design and development technologies to translate business requirements to engineering teams.
• Experience using data and metrics to independently test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success with attention to detail.
• A highly motivated self-starter who can work effectively across cross-functional teams and also make things happen on their own.
• A strong communicator with excellent written and verbal skills.
• A team player and fun to work with. Loves to share inspiration and new ideas with your direct and indirect teams.
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The annualized base salary for this role will range between $100,000 and $115,000.  Base compensation is reflective of many factors, including, but not limited to, the market in which one lives/works, individual education level, skills, certifications and experience. Note: variable compensation is not reflected in these figures and based on the role, may be applicable.

USA TODAY Co., Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a diverse workforce. As such, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment and do not discriminate in connection with employment decisions on the basis of an applicant or employee’s race, color, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance (including height and weight), sexual orientation, family responsibilities, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), education, genetic characteristics or information, political affiliation, military or veteran status or other classifications protected by applicable federal, state and local laws in the jurisdictions where USA TODAY Co. employs employees. In addition, USA TODAY Co., Inc. will provide applicants who require a reasonable accommodation, as a result of an applicant’s disability or religion, to complete this employment application and/or any other process in connection with an individuals’ application for employment with USA TODAY Co., Inc. Applicants who require such accommodation should contact USA TODAY Co., Inc.’s Recruitment Department at Recruit@usatodayco.com. Applicants must be authorized to work in the applicable location. Applications from outside these regions will be removed from our system after submission.