Responsibilities
- Serve as the Principal Technical Product Manager for Magic: The Gathering Arena’s Forge teams, the engineering groups responsible for build and release pipelines, live environment management, and the autoscaling backend infrastructure that powers Arena.
- Serve as the Product Owner to partner with engineering leadership to define and execute the roadmap for Arena’s developer experience, delivery systems, and backend reliability.
- Translate internal customer needs into clear, actionable technical requirements that enhance scalability, stability, and developer velocity.
- Understand strategic business and product objectives to guide planning, prioritization, and management of technical projects and features, balancing short-term needs with long-term goals.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, QA, production, and platform partners to align Forge initiatives with Arena’s broader technology and product objectives.
- Define success metrics and measure performance across build times, release reliability, and backend uptime.
- Champion best practices in automation, observability, and continuous integration/deployment.
- Communicate technical roadmaps, landmarks, trade-offs, risks, and mitigations effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, including leadership groups and functional teams.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Technical Product Manager, Product Manager, or Technical Program Manager in a software engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure environment.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and DevOps practices, including build and release pipelines, CI/CD systems, containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS), and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to define and deliver technical roadmaps for complex engineering systems.
- Proven success in fostering multi-functional alignment across engineering, production, and operations.
- Analytical approach with the ability to evaluate trade-offs between speed, quality, and scalability.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to translate between technical details and business priorities.
- Deep curiosity for how tools, automation, and infrastructure can improve developer productivity and live service reliability.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Unity build pipelines or similar game engine environments.
- Background in live-service games or large-scale distributed systems.
- Hands-on knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch).
- Experience working with Jenkins, GitLab CI, TeamCity, or other sophisticated build/release automation systems.
Work Arrangement
On-site
Team
Structure: Engineering groups responsible for build and release pipelines, live environment management, and autoscaling backend infrastructure.
Additional Information
- We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer
- Wizards of the Coast is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. We are committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, or any other legally protected status.
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process and need to request an accommodation, please contact your recruiter or coordinator.
