Group Product Manager

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About the Role

As Group Product Manager Arcade Business youll serve as the right hand to the Senior Director Product Management transforming Arcade strategy into impactful product experiences that drive measurable player and business outcomes. This player-coach role combines hands-on product leadership with team developmentowning the end-to-end Arcade experience across onboarding discovery competitions rewards referrals retention and monetization while helping scale the product organization.

Youll directly influence key growth metrics including NGR pMAU I2D retention ARPPU and LTV/CAC by delivering high-quality product execution leading cross-functional collaboration and building the operating rhythms experimentation frameworks and launch excellence that enable Arcade to grow faster smarter and at scale.

Key Competencies:

Arcade Product Strategy & Business Ownership

• Translate Senior Director Arcade strategy into a clear product roadmap across launch scale and optimization phases.
• Own product levers that move Arcade NGR pMAU I2D retention ARPPU D30 NGR/user and LTV/CAC.
• Make crisp trade-offs across FTUE lobby catalogue offers deposits rewards referral and LiveOps surfaces.

Hands-on Product Execution & Delivery

• Drive the full product lifecycle from opportunity sizing to PRD execution delivery launch and iteration.
• Personally author high-quality specs and experiment briefs; do not outsource product thinking to process.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Design to maintain execution velocity and launch quality.

Analytics Experimentation & Player Insight

• Use player behavior cohort analysis funnel diagnostics and A/B tests to prioritize product bets.
• Define instrumentation and dashboards needed to understand install-to-deposit conversion gameplay depth revenue and retention.
• Blend quantitative data with direct player feedback and game play review.

Gaming Growth & Monetization Depth

• Understand game loops tournament economics entry fees prizes rewards LiveOps and content freshness.
• Design product loops that improve first deposit repeat play progression referrals and payer retention.
• Comfortable operating in high-sensitivity revenue environments where a small group of high-value users can materially impact GMV/NGR.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead 1-2 PMs or workstream owners as the pod scales; coach on product craft metrics prioritization and stakeholder management.
• Build trust with Engineering Data Design UA Marketing Finance Game Ops Legal/Compliance and Operations.
• Create a team rhythm that is high-ownership clear fast and low-drama - because drama is not a product strategy.

Executive Communication & Stakeholder Management

• Communicate Arcade roadmap launch readiness KPI movement and risks clearly to Senior Director and broader leadership.
• Drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders while preserving decision velocity.
• Escalate early when metrics scope quality or timeline risks threaten business outcomes.

Experience

• 8 years of product management experience preferably with 3 years in mobile gaming real-money gaming free-to-play consumer growth marketplace or high-frequency transaction products.
• Proven track record launching and scaling consumer-facing products from ambiguous 0-to-1 or early-scale stages.
• Experience owning growth activation monetization or retention KPIs in a high-velocity product environment.
• Experience managing or mentoring PMs or leading multiple product workstreams through influence.
• Deep familiarity with product analytics experimentation funnel optimization cohort analysis and product KPI measurement.
• Strong understanding of gaming KPIs and player psychology; direct experience with RMG skill gaming wagering or regulated consumer products is a plus.
• Comfort working across India/US time zones with distributed Engineering Design Data UA Marketing and Operations partners.

Location:Hybrid in Bengaluru

Travel Requirement: Less than 10%

Skillz embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As part of our commitment to diversifying our workforce we do not discriminate on the basis of age race sex gender gender identity color religion national origin sexual orientation marital status citizenship veteran status or disability status and we operate in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.