Principal Technical Product Manager (GameDev)

TL;DR

Principal Technical Product Manager (GameDev): Leading the product vision and roadmap for Magic: The Gathering Arena's backend infrastructure and developer experience with an accent on build/release pipelines, live environment management, and autoscaling. Focus on translating internal customer needs into technical requirements, championing automation, and ensuring live service reliability for a large-scale game.

Location: On-site in Renton, WA, United States

Salary: $154,400.00 – $248,600.00

Company

hirify.global connects people globally through play and imagination with genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons.

What you will do

• Serve as the Principal Technical Product Manager for Magic: The Gathering Arena’s Forge teams, focusing on build/release pipelines, live environment management, and autoscaling backend infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering leadership as Product Owner 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.
• Guide planning, prioritization, and management of technical projects and features based on strategic business and product objectives.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, QA, production, and platform partners to align Forge initiatives with broader technology and product objectives.
• Define success metrics and measure performance across build times, release reliability, and backend uptime, championing automation and CI/CD.

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/release pipelines, CI/CD systems, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS), and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to define and deliver technical roadmaps for complex engineering systems.
• Proven success in fostering cross-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.

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.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive Health & Wellness benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• Generous paid vacation & holidays.
• Financial well-being support with a 401(k) match.
• Paid Parental Leave for life and family support.
• Opportunities for learning and development through Tuition Reimbursement.
• Exclusive perks including product discounts.