Double Loop Games

Double Loop Games is looking for an ambitious and innovative Lead Product Manager to help drive the performance of a new F2P mobile title.

Who we are

We are a well-funded mobile game start-up focused on making delightful, relaxing experiences for the biggest audience in games: people who don’t think of themselves as gamers.

We're building an environment that's transparent, respectful, and family-friendly. Our current team is in California and Oregon, but we're happy to work with people remotely anywhere in the Americas. Diverse candidates encouraged. Kindness expected.

Who do we want

Double Loop Games is looking for an ambitious and innovative Lead Product Manager to help drive the performance of a new F2P mobile title. You will work closely with Design, Engineering, Art and Data to define feature requirements, analyze the performance of features, and use these results to guide future game development.

In this role, you will regularly develop feature specs, develop and deploy experiments, interpret data, deliver insights and make actionable recommendations that will shape our games and engage our global audience.

You would be a perfect match for this position if you thrive in a heavily collaborative and iterative environment, you are enthusiastic about leveraging data to drive results and you are excited by the opportunity to make a visible impact on our games.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Game Director to define and iterate on the direction and strategy of the game
• Create clear and concise spec documents that can be carried out to full feature completion in collaboration with other disciplines
• Review features, analyze feature performance
• Collaborate with Data, Design, and Engineering to set experimentation plan using a hypothesis-driven approach
• Use live data to tune features in order to maximize performance and create segmented experiences for different user cohorts
• Execute experiments and analyze resulting data to assess individual feature performance
• Define live event calendar strategy, and ensure flawless execution of live events
• Work closely with data, design, and art to design and tune live events
• Analyze live event performance, leverage insights to refine event strategy, and iterate against this process
• Spec and evaluate KPI dashboards
• Identify and define KPIs to measure
• Identify areas of opportunity for improving performance, and help prioritize ideas to impact business goals
• Conduct ongoing competitive analysis on market trends

Qualifications

• B.S./B.A. degree from an accredited college/university or equivalent experience
• 2+ years in a Senior or Lead Product Manager role on a mobile F2P game, live operated at scale
• Knowledge of Mobile Gaming KPIs and how to measure, chart, and affect them
• Knowledge of or strong interest in learning Feature Design
• Experience with data analysis and large data sets
• Experience speccing and evaluating KPI dashboards
• Experience with using playtest feedback and live player data to re-tune data
• Understanding of A/B testing concepts and terminology
• Ability to work cross-functionally with Design, Engineering, Art, and Data teams
• Strong knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets
• Excellent communication, planning, and organization skills
• Extreme attention to detail
• Ability to communicate in English, both verbally and written
• Conscientious and self-motivated

Huge plusses

• Experience working in Github
• Experience managing and mentoring other PMs
• Experience balancing portions of a F2P economy
• A love of relaxing, delightful gameplay, and beautiful worlds filled with both outdoor spaces and intimate village life
• A strong desire to step outside of your comfort zone and learn new things

What are we offering?

• Full-time role with benefits
• Interesting, highly original work in a small, supportive and well-funded start-up led by two women who are industry veterans
• Flexible working arrangements. Work from home wherever you may be as long as you have a reasonable number of overlapping hours with the pacific time zone (+/- 3 hours for this role) and fast, reliable internet connection

Please send your full resume, references, and anything else you think we should see to jobs@doubleloopgames.com. Candidates should also be prepared for a design test, if necessary.

Double Loop Games is looking for a Lead Data Scientist to analyze & predict player behavior for a new, original mobile game.

Who we are

We are a well-funded mobile game start-up focused on making delightful, relaxing experiences for the biggest audience in games: people who don’t think of themselves as gamers.

We're building an environment that's transparent, respectful, and family-friendly. Our current team is in California and Oregon, but we're happy to work with people remotely anywhere in the Americas. Diverse candidates encouraged. Kindness expected.

Who do we want

Double Loop Games is looking for an experienced Lead Data Scientist to help us understand, react to, and predict player experience. The ideal candidate is very familiar with the live operation of a F2P mobile game at scale. This Data Scientist will work closely with product management, design, engineering, and marketing on a variety of areas from level balancing to user acquisition campaign optimization. They should showcase a track record of high quality work and enthusiasm for their craft, and be experienced using common analysis practices & technologies.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from product management, design, and other stakeholders to track KPIs of interest
• Build charts & dashboards to visualize KPIs in an easily digestible format
• Collaborate with client and backend engineers to record & report metrics
• Incorporate third-party information from app stores, marketing/attribution data, and ad networks
• Measure operational success & work with the product manager to identify opportunities for improvement including player economies, sales, and storefront engagement
• Conduct rigorous A/B testing of features and communicate outcomes clearly to a broad audience
• Work with gameplay engineers to build AI that can play puzzles and predict player difficulty & facilitate tuning
• Work with marketing to build a predictive model of player LTV and other tools needed for user acquisition optimization
• Identify player segments that can be used for gameplay experiments and marketing
• Facilitate data migration and recovery to maximize flexibility & retention of data
• Support the rollout of new game versions while comparing & contrasting KPIs
• Ensure that governmental compliance requirements are satisfied for data retention & deletion (i.e. GDPR)

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a similar role
• A degree or equivalent experience in computer science, mathematics, or statistics
• Ability to craft effective & efficient SQL plus a high level language like Python or R
• Familiarity with ETL architecture used for client- and server-based recording
• Familiarity with doing analysis on large data sets
• Familiarity with cloud computing using AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent
• Expertise with data visualization tools like Tableau or Redash
• Comfortable using Excel or Google Sheet formulas as needed
• Ability to iterate quickly
• Excellent communication and planning skills
• Extreme attention to detail
• Experience with git or similar version control systems
• Conscientious and self-motivated

Huge plusses

• Interest or experience with AI or machine learning
• Familiarity with BigQuery, Redshift, or Synapse
• Familiarity with C# and ASP.NET Core
• Experience with Unity
• Experience managing and mentoring other data scientists or analysts
• A love of relaxing, delightful gameplay, and beautiful worlds filled with both outdoor spaces and intimate village life
• A strong desire to step outside of your comfort zone and learn new things

What are we offering?

• Full-time role with benefits
• Interesting, highly original work in a small, supportive and well-funded start-up led by two women who are industry veterans
• Flexible working arrangements. Work from home wherever you may be as long as you have a reasonable number of overlapping hours with the pacific time zone (+/- 3 hours for this role) and fast, reliable internet connection

Please send your full resume, references, and anything else you think we should see to jobs@doubleloopgames.com.