Product Manager / General Manager (Principal)
Gym Class develops the Gym Class VR basketball game.
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About Gym Class
Gym Class, legally IRL Studios Inc., is an active virtual-reality sports-game company and the recipient of its 2022 seed financing.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the flagship game's outcomes across activation, retention, monetization, and live operations. You will ship onboarding improvements, a Career Mode, seasons, events, challenges, and social features; use metrics and player feedback to guide decisions; establish repeatable product systems; and expand successful approaches across additional games, mobile, AI, and UGC initiatives.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience
- Experience building or operating live-service products
- Experience with ongoing updates, events, economies, progression, battle passes, ranked seasons, experimentation, and iteration
- Ability to own and improve D1, D7, and D30 funnels and cohorts
- Ability to use data and player feedback together
- Ability to lead across design, engineering, art, analytics, community, and marketing
- Experience shipping or owning live-service games, progression systems, economies, competitive ladders, or social platform mechanics
- Experience with social games, UGC ecosystems, or products for younger demographics
- Sports game intuition or familiarity with competitive multiplayer communities
Responsibilities
- Own activation, retention, monetization, and live operations outcomes end-to-end
- Identify bottlenecks, set the plan, align the team, and deliver product improvements
- Improve onboarding, goals, progression, and reasons for players to return
- Launch a single-player Career Mode with progression, bot gameplay, milestones, rewards, and narrative framing
- Create and run seasons, events, challenges, drops, experiments, and weekly iterations
- Improve parties, squads, competitive ladders, leaderboards, tournaments, spectating, and community moments
- Prioritize work based on metrics and return on investment
- Set standards for quality, pacing, and reliability
- Build dashboards, rituals, operating cadence, quality bars, and launch playbooks
- Expand product scope to additional games
- Advise and influence mobile, AI, and UGC efforts
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 401k retirement plan with matching