Product Manager of GameSpot

CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) is a mass media company that creates and distributes industry-leading content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world. The Company has businesses with origins that date back to the dawn of the broadcasting age as well as new ventures that operate on the leading edge of media.

We are looking for someone who loves products, loves games, and would love nothing more than to combine the two every day at "work."

As GameSpot’s Product Manager, you are the voice of the user, responsible for analyzing the market for opportunities and threats, building a product roadmap, and leading a talented, entrepreneurial team of developers and designers to bring those ideas to life across both web and mobile platforms. You will manage and pace the development process from scoping through design, development, testing, release, and optimization.

You will collaborate with other groups including Content, Product Marketing, and Growth & Engagement, gathering their input and requirements and keeping them apprised of progress.

• Build and maintain a product roadmap, understanding the cost/benefit tradeoffs of each feature to make efficient use of development resources
• Always be testing! You will create hypotheses for new features, analyze results, and iterate
• Ensure clear, timely delivery of requirements to the development team, and give feedback on completed work
• Identify third-party services that can be leveraged to add value for users, speed up development, or reduce load on the development team
• Balance the needs of the user with those of the business to ensure the team is creating compelling user experiences that also generate business value
• Be an internal and external evangelist for GameSpot

Qualifications:

• A strong interest in video game culture and business
• Familiarity with and opinions on UX/UI design patterns
• Experience working on a large-scale website with strong community elements
• Ability to write basic marketing/site copy
• History of working with designers and developers to build products
• Basic understanding of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS)
• Fundamental SEO knowledge
• Must successfully pass background check

Preferred

• Knowledge of online video distribution and streaming technologies is a strong plus
• Experience with online analytics and A/B testing tools
• Experience with mobile web is a strong plus
• Experience analyzing and optimizing user acquisition and retention
• Familiarity with off-site marketing/social channels such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter
• Experience designing CMS tools and UI
• You’ve been to E3 or PAX