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Job Summary:
Bonfire Studios is a game development company focused on creating engaging player experiences. They are seeking a Product Manager to own the product direction for platform systems that enhance player-facing experiences and to collaborate with teams to turn player behavior into actionable insights.
Responsibilities:
• Owning product direction for platform systems that enable and support player-facing experiences, shaping roadmap, priorities, and long-term vision.
• Translating player behavior into action, partnering closely with analytics and insights to turn telemetry, experimentation, and qualitative signals into clear product opportunities.
• Prioritizing ruthlessly by weighing player value, studio leverage, and technical investment to decide what to build, what to buy, and what not to do.
• Defining requirements for platform capabilities (such as messaging, campaigns, triggers, segmentation, and experimentation) used by game and publishing teams to deliver customer-facing experiences.
• Shaping how the studio interacts with players at scale through shared systems and tooling, without setting game design or monetization strategy.
• Connecting platform investments to measurable outcomes — such as improved onboarding, healthier communities, and better retention — by enabling teams with better data, tools, and workflows.
• Partnering deeply with engineering and technical leads to scope solutions, evaluate tradeoffs, and ensure systems are scalable, maintainable, and fit for long-term use.
• Collaborating with Arkheron's development team by advocating for platform capabilities that unlock options and flexibility, without prescribing creative or gameplay decisions.
• Designing for internal users by working hand-in-hand with design and UX to build tools that are intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable for developers to use.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience in product, analytics, or a data-driven role, with 2+ years shaping platform, infrastructure, or internal tooling products that support customer-facing outcomes.
• Think naturally in player journeys and customer interactions, while working on systems rather than direct game features.
• Use data to guide decisions, with strong instincts around metrics, telemetry, experimentation, and identifying meaningful signals versus noise.
• Bring hands-on experience with martech and player engagement systems (campaign engines, triggers, segmentation, attribution, messaging workflows).
• Understand modern community ecosystems (Discord integrations, bots, role systems) and how tooling choices shape player behavior and culture.
• Are fluent in engineering concepts and tradeoffs, comfortable discussing APIs, data pipelines, telemetry, and build-vs-buy decisions with technical partners.
• Balance competing inputs from game teams, publishing, analytics, and design — and can prioritize clearly when everything feels important.
• Communicate with clarity and empathy, building strong relationships across disciplines.
Company:
Bonfire studios is an independent game studio in Orange County California Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Irvine, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.