Wizards of the Coast · 8 hours ago
Principal Technical Product Manager
Renton, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$154K/yr - $249K/yrWizards of the Coast is a company that connects people around the world through play and imagination. They are seeking a Principal Technical Product Manager for Magic: The Gathering Arena’s Forge teams to manage engineering groups responsible for build and release pipelines and backend infrastructure. The role involves defining technical roadmaps, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring successful project delivery while enhancing developer experience and backend reliability.
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Responsibilities
Serve as the Principal Technical Product Manage 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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
Health & Wellness: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Time Off to Recharge: Paid Vacation & Holidays
Financial Well-being: Generous 401(k) Match
Life & Family Support: Paid Parental Leave
Giving Back: Volunteer & Employee Giving Programs
Level Up Your Skills: Tuition Reimbursement
Exclusive Perks: Product Discounts & More!
Company
Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast develops and publishes game-based and other entertainment products.
Founded in 1990
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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unknown1999-09-09Acquired
Leadership Team
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Talent Acquisition Partner
Courtney Crooks
HR Business Partner
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