Full-Time

Lead Product Manager Mobile 1

Product, Mobile

DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks Animation

1,001-5,000 employees

Produces animated films and TV series

No salary listed

Montreal, QC, Canada

Hybrid

Hybrid role; some on-site days in Montréal.

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
UI/UX Design
Product Management
Risk Management
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • 9+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Leadership, or a closely related discipline, with recent experience on successful mobile or cross-platform entertainment products.
  • Experience owning product strategy, roadmap planning, feature prioritization, or business outcomes.
  • Strong understanding of mobile product fundamentals, including engagement, retention, monetization, analytics, and experimentation.
  • Experience working closely with Design, Engineering, UX, Analytics, and Production teams throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills.
  • Ability to turn ambiguity into clear product direction and actionable plans.
Responsibilities
  • Define and drive the mobile product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
  • Partner with Design, Technology, Production, and Business leaders to align priorities and product direction.
  • Ensure mobile is treated as a first-class experience throughout development and represented in planning, development, and delivery decisions.
  • Translate product goals into clear requirements, priorities, milestones, and success metrics.
  • Drive product decisions through user research, analytics, testing, and iteration.
  • Identify opportunities to improve onboarding, engagement, retention, monetization, and long-term product health.
  • Contribute to launch planning, release readiness, and post-launch product evolution.
  • Communicate priorities, risks, and recommendations clearly across the organization.
  • Help scale the mobile product function as the team grows.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience contributing to highly engaged gaming, social, creator-driven, or UGC products.
  • Experience with free-to-play mobile products, live operations, progression systems, monetization systems, or virtual economies.
  • Experience shipping cross-platform experiences across mobile, PC, and/or console.
  • Strong product judgment and the ability to balance player value, business value, and technical constraints.
  • Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments where not all answers are known upfront.
  • Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to build alignment without relying on formal authority.
  • Passion for interactive entertainment and player-focused product development.
  • Experience mentoring product managers or helping build a product organization is a plus.

DreamWorks Animation produces animated films and television shows for family and children audiences, creating stories and characters that appeal to multiple generations. Its products are brought to life through a full animation pipeline, including in-house technology like the Moonray rendering platform, and a studio ecosystem that supports development from concept to release. Work combines artistry and engineering to deliver feature films, TV series, and related experiences, with revenue coming from box office, licensing, merchandise, and partnerships with streaming services. The company differentiates itself with its proprietary animation technology, a large creative talent pool at its Glendale campus, and a track record of popular franchises such as How to Train Your Dragon, along with award-winning storytelling. Its goal is to produce high-quality, engaging animated content and advance animation technology while expanding its franchises across theaters, TV, and digital platforms.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$3.8B

Headquarters

Glendale, California

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • Kung Fu Panda 4 partnerships expand merchandise, food, and lifestyle licensing.[2]
  • WWF collaboration strengthens franchise affinity through conservation-focused cause marketing.[2]
  • Mixed in-house and partner-studio production can lower costs while preserving quality.[6]

What critics are saying

  • Comcast ownership exposes DreamWorks to NBCUniversal's broader strategic priorities.[1]
  • Franchise concentration makes box office softness directly hit licensing and merchandising.[5][7]
  • Reliance on Glendale concentrates operational risk in a single production hub.[2][5]

What makes DreamWorks Animation unique

  • Glendale campus co-locates artists, technologists, and engineers for faster iteration.[2]
  • Premo and MoonRay give DreamWorks proprietary, award-recognized animation capabilities.[2]
  • Cross-platform production spans feature films, television, and digital storytelling.[2][7]

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

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Headcount

6 month growth

-12%

1 year growth

-12%

2 year growth

-12%
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