Gala is creating entertainment that empowers on the blockchain. Across our family of brands, including Games, Music, Film, and VOX, we're empowering creators and fans to build the future of entertainment.
Powered by talent from around the globe, we believe in making bold moves to create products that have never been seen in the marketplace. Gala was founded by Eric Schiermeyer (gaming legend and co-founder of Zynga) and Michael McCarthy (the Creative Director behind viral gaming hits such as Farmville 2). Since then, Gala has grown to be a leader in Web3 entertainment.
Under the Gala brand, we have a growing roster of reputable partners across Gaming and Entertainment, including DreamWorks, AMC, and NBCU. Plus, legendary game developers Peter Molyneux and Will Wright and music greats like Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Kings of Leon, and BT.
Our values are based on openness and ownership and the ability to deliver games, experiences, and opportunities to people worldwide. We are breaking down barriers to bring our communities joy, entertainment, and real-world value.
At Gala, we work with flexibility; we have a great time with our colleagues and love getting things done. While working here, you'll imagine and create new and exciting things for the world to enjoy. Your talents and efforts will improve our audiences' lives in the real world.
And this is just the beginning…
The Role
We are so excited to announce we are hiring for a new position here at Gala, Cloud Product Owner. Our Cloud Product Owner is at the heart of our cloud and managed services domain, driving the vision and execution of our product strategy. As a product owner, you will be entrusted with the conception, development, and enhancement of our cloud services offerings.
Your work will involve close collaboration with various stakeholders, including clients, end-users, and the product team, to understand needs, define requirements, and oversee the product life cycle. The Product Owner is crucial in shaping the product roadmap, managing the product backlog, planning releases, coordinating sprints, and ensuring products align with the company's vision.
This role requires a unique blend of business acumen, technical knowledge, and excellent communication skills. If you are passionate about cloud technologies and thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
- Own the long-term infrastructure vision and inspire the team to achieve it. Based on this vision, create a product road map.
- Guide new features and services from inception to production while keeping internal and external customers successful.
- Maintain the team backlog, prioritizing and defining requirements while keeping a strong focus on security, reliability, and scalability of the company services, but also have an eye on the costs.
- Use data to make informed decisions about what the team should work on next and analyze the results.
- Collect/give feedback and input from/to a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborating with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements.
- Overseeing all stages of product creation, including design and development.
- Developing user stories.
- Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process.
- Setting sprint goals, planning releases, and upgrades.
- Keeping track of industry trends.
- Determine the needs of the market.
Essential Skills and Qualifications
- Strong affinity with technology, especially cloud/container infrastructure (for example, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes)
- Previous hands-on experience as Software and/or DevOps Engineer/SRE or equivalent technical role
- Work experience as a product owner or in a similar role in product management.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Familiar with CI/CD, HA, DR, and other infrastructure/development practices
- Team player with a bottom-up ideation process
- Ability to see the big picture without losing sight of the details
- Analytical orientation and strong problem-solving skills demonstrated by the ability to structure issues and analyze alternative solutions
- Able to understand and formulate meaningful metrics
- Experience working with distributed teams
- Self-motivated, stellar work ethic, fun collaborator
- Excited by problem-solving
- Fearless
Nice-to-Have Skills and Qualifications
- Familiarity with Agile is a plus.
- Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle.
- Technical background with knowledge of software development and web techniques.
- Driven and motivated by innovation
#LI-Onsite
Gala is an equal-opportunity employer and adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.
Employee Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Unlimited PTO for our U.S.-based staff
- US Based Employees 100% covered for employees (Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program and several more
NEXT STEPS
If you have the experience, passion, and drive to join our team, then please submit a resume by clicking the apply button below!
Gala does not accept unsolicited referrals or resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. We will not consider unsolicited referrals and/or resumes from vendors including, and without limitation, search firms, staffing agencies, fee-based referral services, and recruiting agencies. Gala will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.