Prodigy Education is hiring a
Technical Product Owner

Summary

The job is for a Technical Product Owner role at Prodigy Education, a fast-growing EdTech company. The role involves driving the roadmap of the Platform team that supports Math and English games, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and communicating effectively about the team's work.

Requirements

• Over 10+ years of experience in the game development field with a focus and passion for engines, game tooling, and pipelines
• A deep understanding of what distinguishes excellent engines and tooling, recognizing the nuances between various engines and their impact on productivity
• A clear passion for building a great product, and the ability to create a vision that inspires your team
• The ability to break down large projects into manageable tasks and use metrics to add significant value to a product
• Solid written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present a strong rationale for product decisions
• The ability to scope projects so that every part of them plays a key role in your overall objective
• Previous experience collaborating closely with engineers, developers, UX designers, and other team members
• Passionate about gaming, with a keen understanding of current trends and market dynamics

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in a cross-functional team with developers, designers, and QA
• Curate the project backlog to ensure your team is always working on the highest priority tasks
• Develop a deep understanding of the needs of internal teams as they work to build meaningful games
• Drive a long-term Platform roadmap that paves the foundations to enable our games to deliver on their own impactful objectives
• Effectively scope projects and experiments so that they are lean but also add enough value to validate your hypotheses
• Consistently communicate what your team is working on and releasing to partner teams
• Champion the accomplishments of your team to the rest of the company, ensuring that proper recognition is given

Preferred Qualifications

• While you’ve worked with common engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc.), you’ve also had the opportunity to work on proprietary engines
• Experience with Live Service Games

Benefits

• Be part of a mission-driven organization dedicated to helping every student in the world love learning!
• Join a company which empowers a Growth Mindset among its team members, so you grow as we do
• Work on award-winning products which harness the magic of math and power of language for students in grades 1st-8th
• Our Total Rewards Program reflects our commitment to your financial, physical, and mental well-being
• It’s not just about the work though; it's about the culture. As the Toronto Star reports in a recent feature on Prodigy: 'Prodigy’s secret sauce is that it sees its corporate culture as something that is built slowly from the ground up and is always evolving.’
• We are building towards a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace to empower and create access and opportunity for all