Principal Product Manager, Infrastructure

About the role

Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, 31st Union, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment. Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, problem solvers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, 2K PGA, BioShock, Borderlands, The Quarry, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, WWE 2K, and XCOM. At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions. 2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

Responsibilities

• Champion the vision and strategy for 2K Technology’s practices in cloud infrastructure, physical infrastructure, and developer tools.
• Develop and execute these strategies in close coordination with stakeholders and peer leaders.
• Ensure that our internal teams deeply understand and anticipate the diverse needs of our studio and Publishing customers while moving 2K toward a consistent, efficient, and robust technology foundation.
• Lead through influence to align stakeholders, partners, and teams to the vision.
• Through strong communication and reliable delivery, inspire trust and confidence in 2K Technology’s ability to solve on behalf of its customers.
• Advocate proactively on behalf of your customers, your teams, and the rest of our central technology organization.
• Form productive, positive partnerships with leaders across our Infrastructure organization, including SRE and Technical Operations.
• Through these relationships, execute on shared opportunities to extend our capabilities, improve operational discipline, and advance our central tech strategy.
• Work closely with peers in engineering and program management to plan effectively, validate assumptions, and deliver high-quality outcomes for customers.
• Contribute to our shared understanding of what good looks like across multiple dimensions of product and technical quality.
• Perform requirements capture, definition, and validation; roadmapping; competitive analyses; customer interviews; strategic planning; KPI development and reporting.

Requirements

• 7-10+ years in product or project management, developing and delivering technical software products.
• Background in physical and cloud infrastructure as a product, project, or engineering leader.
• Opinions on how to deliver scalable, fault-tolerant, and observable production systems to a global organization, and on how best to productize development and delivery best practices.
• Experience aligning others to the vision and accelerating the great ideas of others.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with keen attention to detail.
• Experience presenting to senior management and key stakeholders to drive decisions and win buy-in for your ideas.
• Excel at earning trust and are comfortable saying “no” – and can align your audience on why it’s the right answer.
• Diplomatic, empathetic, and appreciative of differing perspectives: peers enjoy