endlessstudios

Head of Product - Community Platform

New York, New York

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago

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About the role

Our global game-making community guides learners from player to creator to contributor to career-ready.
Your role is to synthesize these diverse needs into coherent platform strategy and prioritize ruthlessly across stakeholders.
Our ideal candidate is a highly experienced individual contributor and proven leader.

Own the platform thesis & roadmap to enable a multi-stakeholder ecosystem (learners, studios, colleges, credential issuers, employers), from current programs to scalable experiences driven by network effects.
Drive web-product velocity: discovery, rapid iteration, experiments, and metrics (activation, retention, contribution). Move from 'prove it once' to 'scale 100x' with data-driven practices.
Practice participatory design: Engage learners, educators, and community members directly in product development through rapid prototyping, user research, and feedback loops.
Design for organic growth: Build features that naturally encourage learners to invite peers, share projects, and expand the community through authentic participation rather than growth hacks.
Tell the story: crisp narratives that align studios, universities, funders, and learners on what we're building and why it matters.
Drive web-product velocity: discovery, rapid iteration, experiments, and metrics (activation, retention, contribution).

Ecosystem builder with a track record taking a product from single use case to multi-party platform/marketplace at meaningful scale.
10+ years in product management and deep community platform experience with platforms like Discord, Roblox, GitHub, Twitch, YouTube, or Reddit - you understand how to build the features and systems that make online communities thrive at scale.
Strategic product leadership: Operates at the intersection of business strategy and product execution - defining problems the organization should solve, not just how to solve assigned problems. Comfortable zooming from long-term platform vision to immediate execution decisions.
AI-fluent: sees AI as a participation and agency amplifier (not just automation).
Open source fluency: Understanding of how open source communities develop software and the cultural practices that make them work - contributions, governance, transparency, community-driven development.
Technical depth (non-coding): comfortable steering platform architecture trade-offs, integrations, credentials/assessment, and trust frameworks.
Design literacy in games/UX and motivational systems that make learning feel like belonging.
Cross-cultural operator comfortable as part of a distributed, 24/7 team and competent communication across time zones.
Systems thinker able to strategize and deliver across multi-stakeholder platforms where partners have competing needs.

activation, retention, contribution, and real skill proof that opens pathways to work.
comfortable steering platform architecture trade-offs, integrations, credentials/assessment, and trust frameworks.

Comfortable zooming from long-term platform vision to immediate execution decisions.
Align with the Learning Experience vision to seamlessly deliver our always-on learning program, advancing user and business needs together.
Translate ecosystem needs into platform capabilities (APIs, credential graph, learning orchestration) with strong technical fluency.

This listing is sourced directly from endlessstudios's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.