👩‍💻Product Manager

AcadArena is the home of campus gaming across the Philippines and Southeast Asia. We’re building a better future for student gamers by creating a place for them to play, connect, and learn.

Though our team started in 2019 as a group of volunteers, we've grown into a venture-backed 30+ team that creates communities, platforms, and experiences that have brought hundreds of thousands of students into gaming.

Our vision is to create a place where students around the world can achieve their dreams — a university without borders.

Product Managers at AcadArena work on our Product team, building out the machinery that powers our community as a whole — including our global student platform for games and scholarships, our new suite of Discord support tools and MMO-lite experiences, and more.

You’ll be working with and supporting a diverse, global team of engineers, designers, researchers to build and shape the tools we need to serve our global network of students and leaders.

As a Product Manager, we’re looking for someone with superior organization, communication, technical excellence, and foresight who can help lead our team from the frontlines.

• Work with our other Production group members to spearhead operational excellence for the team by setting clear problems, priorities, and KPI’s

• Design and oversee superior QA practices for new and upcoming features

• Craft and execute a data-informed community management strategy

• Act as a liaison between Product and Growth by establishing standards for key metrics and success indicators

• Lead post-launch product marketing and content strategy 

• Provide directional support by conducting UX and market research around new features and content ideas and presenting these to the team

• Use post-research insights to create and maintain a strong knowledge base of user personas, demographic information, and more

• Product Shipping Experience: 3+ years of industry experience as a Product Manager or equivalent role, with experience in:

  • Game production

  • Product marketing

  • Live operations

  • UX research and analytics

• Conceptually proficient: Has knowledge and working proficiency with:

  • Project management principles

  • UI/UX design

  • Mobile game development

  • Discord bot development

  • Quality assurance

  • Community management

• Effective Team Player: Has a proven track record in shipping projects from scratch while working with and/or leading a team.

• Goal Oriented: Laser-focused on directives and tasks. Able to contribute to sprint planning and estimations.

• Efficient: You advocate for the creation of new software only when it is necessary, and you can determine when to build a solution versus when to use off the shelf components

• Values-Driven & Youth Focused. You strongly believe in youth empowerment and have a good grasp of their needs and struggles.

• Strong Communicator: Proficient writing, communication and presentation skills in both English and ideally, a SEA language.

   

• Strong understanding of gaming, esports, and/or communities

• Experience working in startups with a lean and close-knit team

• Familiar with regional culture and trends in SEA, Brazil, or South Korea

• Familiar with Discord API + Bot Development.

• Proficiency in any of the ff. languages:

  • Bisaya

  • Hiligaynon

  • Mandarin

  • Vietnamese

  • Bahasa Indonesia

AcadArena is a Southeast Asian campus gaming start-up building the place where students play, connect and earn through gaming and the metaverse. We're backed by an all-star cast of investors including Iterative, 1KX, Hashed, Kevin Lin (Twitch), Kun Gao (Crunchyroll) and Holly Liu (Kabam).