Technical Product Manager - Project Zanaris

Are you a Technically minded Product Manager? Want to be a part of one of the worlds leading MMO's?

Jagex are looking to hire a Technical Product Manager to help guide us through the next iteration of OSRS content creation.

This is an exciting opportunity to help drive the success of the recently announced Project Zanaris and play a vital part in delivering on our product strategy. This new endeavour at Jagex will see us again drive groundbreaking MMO features by allowing players to run and customise their own game worlds. Becoming the foundation of players creating their own experiences in the game.

The role will include: Defining product specifications, managing the technical product roadmap and applying a player-centric, business focused mindset to help drive continued improvement across the product.

What you'll be doing:

• Contribute to the long-term vision for Old School RuneScape and help deliver on Jagex’s values and mission through its product strategy. 
• To prioritise projects in the technical product roadmap and co-ordinate effectively between the  engineering, product management teams and external stakeholders. 
• To work with business intelligence teams to provide supporting data analysis for new features and incremental improvements, understanding how product changes might impact key metrics and the game’s player base. 
• Ability to work well with internal teams, including developers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, and operations. Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations. 
• Understand, research, and follow technical trends in the industry and in general.  
• Co-ordinate customer research, beta tests and management of player feedback. 
• Ability to uncover and understand customer needs and translate them into product requirements. 
• Define success criteria for testing and product acceptance, monitoring and communicating  progress toward KPI targets business goals. 
• To work with product development teams to ensure features and updates are implemented with the optimal user experience and in compliance with external platform holders. 

What you'll need:

• Experience working as a Product Manager focusing on the technical aspects of a product. 
• A strong technical understanding, either having previously worked in a technical role or through technical training. 
• Demonstrable expertise in integrating data-driven methods into product management and team decisions. 
• Proven experience in building and sustaining cross functional relationships. 
• A player-centric mindset, with a commitment to enhancing the gaming experience based on user feedback/data and an understanding of how to interact with both developers and the community to improve the game. 
• Experience working with game tooling and server infrastructure is highly desired, but not a pre-requisite. 

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where in the UK you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.

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