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About the Role

We are building a global game-making community to help learners transition from players to career professionals. You will own the platform strategy and roadmap, design engagement loops, and translate diverse needs into platform capabilities. This role emphasizes platform strategy, product craft, and cross-functional influence, driving impact through expertise and partnerships rather than direct reports. You will operate globally, pilot and scale initiatives, and communicate a clear vision to align stakeholders, prioritizing rapid iteration and measuring key metrics like activation, retention, and skill demonstration.

Responsibilities

Own the platform thesis & roadmap to enable a multi-stakeholder ecosystem (learners, studios, colleges, credential issuers, employers), from current programs to scalable network effects.
Align with the Learning Experience vision to seamlessly deliver our always-on learning program, advancing user and business needs together.
Understand and design community platform systems: You know how successful community platforms work - the loops, incentives, and features (reputation, portfolios, credentials, pathways) that drive participation, contribution, and belonging at scale. You've built these systems, not just theorized about them.
Prioritize ruthlessly across stakeholders; say “no / not now” while keeping trust high.
Drive web-product velocity: discovery, rapid iteration, experiments, and metrics (activation, retention, contribution). Move from 'prove it once' to 'scale 100x' with data-driven practices.
Translate ecosystem needs into platform capabilities (APIs, credential graph, learning orchestration, multi-tenant considerations) with strong technical fluency. Our platform must enable learners to build reputation and demonstrate skills through portfolios, GitHub contributions, and recognized credentials - opening pathways to internships and apprenticeships with game studios and tech employers.
Practice participatory design: Engage learners, educators, and community members directly in product development through rapid prototyping, user research, and feedback loops. You understand that the best product decisions come from observing real usage patterns, not org chart priorities.
Design for organic growth: Build features that naturally encourage learners to invite peers, share projects, and expand the community through authentic participation rather than growth hacks.
Tell the story: crisp narratives that align studios, universities, funders, and learners on what we’re building and why it matters.

Requirements

10+ years in product management and deep community platform experience with platforms like Discord, Roblox, GitHub, Twitch, YouTube, or Reddit - you understand how to build the features and systems that make online communities thrive at scale.
Ecosystem builder with a track record taking a product from single use case to multi-party platform/marketplace at meaningful scale.
Strategic product leadership: Operates at the intersection of business strategy and product execution - defining problems the organization should solve, not just how to solve assigned problems. Comfortable zooming from long-term platform vision to immediate execution decisions.
AI-fluent: sees AI as a participation and agency amplifier (not just automation).
Open source fluency: Understanding of how open source communities develop software and the cultural practices that make them work - contributions, governance, transparency, community-driven development.
Technical depth (non-coding): comfortable steering platform architecture trade-offs, integrations, credentials/assessment, and trust frameworks.
Design literacy in games/UX and motivational systems that make learning feel like belonging.
Cross-cultural operator comfortable as part of a distributed, 24/7 team and competent communication across time zones.
Systems thinker able to strategize and deliver across multi-stakeholder platforms where partners have competing needs.

Skills

Platform strategy
Roadmap development
Community platform design
Incentive systems
Reputation systems
Portfolio management
Credentialing
Learning orchestration
Stakeholder management
Product velocity
Rapid iteration
Experimentation
Data analysis
API design
Credential graphs
Participatory design
User research
Organic growth strategies
Cross-functional communication
AI fluency
Open source principles
Technical architecture
Trust frameworks
Game UX design
Motivational systems
Cross-cultural collaboration
Systems thinking

Work Type

Distributed
24/7 team

Experience Level

10+ years in product management
Individual contributor
Proven leader