The vacancy is well-structured with clear responsibilities and requirements, but lacks compensation details.
Job description
At Horizon, we’re building a New Dimension where Internet economies are fun, accessible, and for the benefit of all participants. We have two amazing products to make this real: Skyweaver, a digital trading card game—powered by blockchain—where players actually own the game items they win and purchase. For the first time, gamers can easily and securely sell and trade their items. And Sequence, our Web3 wallet and platform, provides a seamless user and developer experience for Ethereum, NFTs, Web3, DeFi and Dapps, allowing any web application to integrate with blockchain in two minutes. Sequence makes it easy for users, developers and companies to access and build the next generation of Internet economies and experiences.
Responsibilities
### Product strategy
- Work closely with our CEO, Director of Product, and Head of Design to understand Skyweaver’s overall vision and plans for blockchain technology, while staying true to its look and feel.
- Provide input to key decision makers and participate in the decision making process.
- Align with our CFO on our P&L, and commercial targets for Skyweaver.
- Translate the vision and commercial goals into a coherent, high-level roadmap and product strategy (game features, milestones, etc.), and objectives to realize and deliver the vision of Skyweaver.
- Incorporate data-driven insights into product strategy development, drawing from internal user research, market reports, product analytics.
- Effectively communicate the roadmap to the Leadership, and production teams (designers, engineers, game developers, artists).
### Production management
- Working with Leadership, define the operational properties of project development, including development processes, production planning, status reporting, risk management, resource management, and budgets.
- Maintain organizational and operational responsibilities. Oversee and mentor key areas of scheduling, staffing, process, and time management.
- Define production metrics.
Requirements
### Qualifications
- 5 years of production experience on a shipped console, PC, or mobile game.
- Demonstrated track record to deliver major projects (quality standards, budget constraints and effective team output) on time, and within budget.
- In-depth knowledge of ARM (acquisition, retention, monetization) model for games.
- Experience and working knowledge of game monetization best practices. Ability to successfully partner across all levels of a team and organization.
- Excellent leadership skills and interpersonal communication skills; Strong ability to lead and motivate a team.
- Excellent organizational skills with experience in project delivery methodologies like Agile, Scrum, etc.
- Good understanding of the work of each stakeholder and job family involved in game production: designers, artists, programmers, Live Operations, Quality Assurance, etc.
- Must be self-directed, detail oriented, and a problem solver with a burning desire to contribute to a uniquely creative environment.
- Passion for games, an understanding of the industry, and the knowledge of what makes great interactive entertainment.
### Big plus:
- Experience with free-to-play and/or TCG genre.
- Experience in at least one area of game development (e.g., design, art, engineering, etc.).
Conditions
### Why Horizon?
- Chance to deliver massive impact at a small and growing company, owning one of its flagship products.
- Accelerate your career by joining at the early stages.
- Be part of defining Web3, the next generation of the Internet, and creating a new market category of blockchain games.
- Work with an outstanding team made of wonderful people who have built and sold successful companies, launched amazing products, and have rich experience in infrastructure, architecture, blockchain, games, finance, investing, strategy, consulting, design, marketing, community, and more.
- Work life balance unlike the “crunch” culture you find at larger studios.
- New PC, and generous allowance for work-from-home setup.
- Competitive salary, and equity package.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits.
- We’re conscious about mental health and have modern vacation policies.
- We invest in everyone’s personal development and subsidize courses, books, and conferences, so you never stop learning.
- Work on hard, big, meaningful problems that can shift markets.
About Horizon
Horizon appears to be the software company Horizon Software, which provides campus card and cashless payment systems, food and nutrition service management software, integrated security solutions, eCommerce platforms, and housing management software. Its products are used across K-12 schools, higher education, senior living, healthcare, and corporate dining, and it is a unit of Roper Technologies headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.[2]