Product Manager | London | Permanent
We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.
We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.
Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.
We believe in looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.
We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!
Product Manager
Hutch is looking for a Product Manager to accelerate the growth of our flagship motorsports title - F1 Clash and help deliver our ambition to be the #1 mobile racing game.
Join us as Product Manager, working on one of the biggest IPs in the world, to build, operate and improve amazing features, systems and events and grow this game to new heights.
Responsibilities
- As Product Manager, you’ll design, scope and implement features, improvements and events that result in an outstanding gameplay experience for our players and positively inflect metrics.
- Be entrepreneurial, getting hands on to test out new ideas, setting up experiments, events, offers, bundles and live operations to maximise the game’s performance.
- You’ll use user and competitive research, along with performance data analysis to identify opportunities to grow the game.
- Partner with other parts of the organisation including Consumer Insights and Product Marketing to maximise the impact of your features and events.
- Understand and forecast the performance of the game, live ops, and your features using dashboards and analysis, communicating this with the wider team.
- Be a player champion, paying close attention to the player experience.
Requirements
- A track record of Product Management working on free to play game(s).
- Hands on experience designing, building and maintaining features and events in games.
- Good knowledge of the free to play games market and best practices from top performing games with understanding of why they are succeeding.
- Good written and verbal communication skills, and attention to detail.
- Drive - Strong drive to succeed and “get it done” attitude.
- Scientific approach - using logical data-led hypothesis approach, with well structured thinking built on an understanding of the connection between a KPI and the changes needed to improve it.
- Analytical ability, with experience running and reading out on experiments, feature or live ops launches and investigating game performance issues.
Bonus Points
- Experience working with gacha-led and/or midcore games
- Experience with dashboardings such as Amplitude or Tableau
- Experience with CRM tools like Braze, Leanplum etc.
- Passion for Cars or Motorsports
- Experience with Racing Games
Benefits
Life at Hutch
Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch in central London. We have additional offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with;
- Hutch is now a 4-Day Work Week company*
- Flexible working hours
- Remote working 2 days per week
- Excellent salary
- Private health care
- Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
- Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
- Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
- Free snacks and drinks
- Social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more
*This will mean that Hutch employees will work a maximum of 4 days per week (30 hours/week) Mon-Thurs, with zero reductions in pay (compared to a 5 day working week).
Our Values
- Transparent - Being transparent and open helps us to be trusted and fosters integrity.
- Humble - When we are humble we show humility, we let go of egos and we are self-aware.
- Collaborative - We value teamwork, the spirit of collaboration and the results of working together.
- Driven - We have drive and ambition and always push for the best results rather than settling.
- Adaptable - Demonstrating the ability to adapt ultimately helps us grow and helps us thrive in different situations
We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/
Skills Required
- Track record of Product Management in free to play games
- Hands on experience in designing and maintaining game features
- Knowledge of free to play games market and best practices
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Strong drive to succeed and get things done
- Analytical ability and experience with experiments and game performance
What We Do
Hutch has been voted one of the Best Places to Work in the gamesindustry.biz awards for the last 3 years in a row! Since inception in 2011, we've entertained over 300 million mobile players across game titles including Rebel Racing, F1® Clash, Top Drives, and Hot Wheels: Race Off. We’re dedicated to growing the racing genre on mobile, and enabling communities of players worldwide to celebrate their passion for cars. People make games, and our people are the heart and soul of Hutch. We’ve created a work environment that we’re proud of and enjoy spending time in. As a team, we work together and play together. We take on creative and technical challenges to make great games and have fun along the way. Teams at Hutch have the freedom and responsibility to make the best decisions for the players, and we are committed to making their working lives as easy and as simple as possible. We’ve created an award-winning culture for our 100+ world-class team members, housed in our main studio in Shoreditch, London, with wider studios situated in Dundee and Canada. In December 2020 Hutch was acquired by Modern Times Group (MTG) to further accelerate opportunities to build highly diverse automotive experiences on mobile.
