Wizards of the Coast is hiring a Principal Technical Product Manager to join the Skeleton Key studio. You will be responsible for Magic: The Gathering Arena’s Forge teams, which handle build and release pipelines, live environment management, and backend infrastructure. This role is based on-site in Renton, WA.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the Principal Technical Product Manager and Product Owner for the Forge teams, defining and executing the roadmap for Arena’s developer experience, delivery systems, and backend reliability.
- Translate internal customer needs into clear, actionable technical requirements to enhance scalability, stability, and developer velocity.
- 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 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.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins, GitLab CI, TeamCity, Unity
Team & Environment
You will be part of Magic: The Gathering Arena’s Forge teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Paid Vacation & Holidays
- Generous 401(k) Match
- Paid Parental Leave
- Volunteer & Employee Giving Programs
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Product Discounts
- Compensation Range: $154,400.00 to $248,600.00
Work Mode
This is an on-site position in Renton, WA.
Wizards of the Coast is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, or any other legally protected status.
