AcadArena is the home of campus gaming across the Philippines and Southeast Asia. We’re building a better future for student gamers by creating a place for them to play, connect, and learn.
Though our team started in 2019 as a group of volunteers, we've grown into a venture-backed 30+ team that creates communities, platforms, and experiences that have brought hundreds of thousands of students into gaming.
Our vision is to create a place where students around the world can achieve their dreams — a university without borders.
Product Managers at AcadArena work on our Product team, building out the machinery that powers our community as a whole — including our global student platform for games and scholarships, our new suite of Discord support tools and MMO-lite experiences, and more.
You’ll be working with and supporting a diverse, global team of engineers, designers, researchers to build and shape the tools we need to serve our global network of students and leaders.
As a Product Manager, we’re looking for someone with superior organization, communication, technical excellence, and foresight who can help lead our team from the frontlines.
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Work with our other Production group members to spearhead operational excellence for the team by setting clear problems, priorities, and KPI’s
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Design and oversee superior QA practices for new and upcoming features
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Craft and execute a data-informed community management strategy
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Act as a liaison between Product and Growth by establishing standards for key metrics and success indicators
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Lead post-launch product marketing and content strategy
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Provide directional support by conducting UX and market research around new features and content ideas and presenting these to the team
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Use post-research insights to create and maintain a strong knowledge base of user personas, demographic information, and more
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Product Shipping Experience: 3+ years of industry experience as a Product Manager or equivalent role, with experience in:
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Game production
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Product marketing
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Live operations
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UX research and analytics
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Conceptually proficient: Has knowledge and working proficiency with:
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Project management principles
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UI/UX design
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Mobile game development
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Discord bot development
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Quality assurance
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Community management
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Effective Team Player: Has a proven track record in shipping projects from scratch while working with and/or leading a team.
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Goal Oriented: Laser-focused on directives and tasks. Able to contribute to sprint planning and estimations.
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Efficient: You advocate for the creation of new software only when it is necessary, and you can determine when to build a solution versus when to use off the shelf components
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Values-Driven & Youth Focused. You strongly believe in youth empowerment and have a good grasp of their needs and struggles.
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Strong Communicator: Proficient writing, communication and presentation skills in both English and ideally, a SEA language.
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Strong understanding of gaming, esports, and/or communities
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Experience working in startups with a lean and close-knit team
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Familiar with regional culture and trends in SEA, Brazil, or South Korea
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Familiar with Discord API + Bot Development.
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Proficiency in any of the ff. languages:
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Bisaya
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Hiligaynon
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Mandarin
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Vietnamese
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Bahasa Indonesia
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AcadArena is a Southeast Asian campus gaming start-up building the place where students play, connect and earn through gaming and the metaverse. We're backed by an all-star cast of investors including Iterative, 1KX, Hashed, Kevin Lin (Twitch), Kun Gao (Crunchyroll) and Holly Liu (Kabam).
