Product Owner - Xsolla Partner Network (XPN)

Core Responsibilities:

You’ll work closely with customers on both sides of the XPN marketplace—game publishers and content creators—to drive discovery, engagement, and revenue. Your role blends customer conversations, product definition, and hands-on delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Research and discovery: Engage with game publishers and creators to gather insights, understand trends in the creator economy and gaming, and shape the product roadmap based on learnings.

• Coordinate the roadmap: Collaborate with the Product Director to prioritize insights, balance publisher and creator needs, and build an exciting roadmap for the team.

• Write product requirements: Develop clear, well-scoped Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) to guide design and engineering teams.

• Manage delivery: Organize work in Jira, ensuring alignment between design, engineering, and QA teams from kickoff to release.

• Track what matters: Define and monitor key metrics to evaluate XPN’s success for both publishers and creators, guiding future product decisions.

• Keep everyone connected: Serve as the central hub for product communication, sharing updates on project status, research, and customer insights with the product team, Business Development, Customer Success, and Marketing.

Requirements:

• Product experience: 3+ years in product management or product ownership, with experience shipping software alongside dedicated engineering teams.

• Customer insight: Enjoy conducting customer interviews and translating insights into actionable product decisions. Comfortable serving diverse user groups and finding balanced solutions.

• Clear writing: Ability to write concise, actionable product requirements that align the team quickly.

• Engineering partnership: Work closely with engineers daily, making scope and sequencing decisions collaboratively. Comfortable managing backlogs and tracking work in Jira.

• Cross-team communication: Enjoy keeping stakeholders informed and serving as a go-to resource for product-related questions.

• Adaptability: Thrives in fast-paced, globally distributed environments and can drive progress even when details are still evolving.

• Video game marketing: Deep understanding of user acquisition, community building, and influencer campaigns in gaming. Preference for experience in the creator economy or influencer marketing.

• Creator platform familiarity: Knowledge of creator tools on platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, or Kickstarter, including analytics, audience growth, and monetization strategies.

Nice-to-Have:

• Marketplace or platform experience: Prior work on two-sided marketplaces or platform products.

• Partner commercial models: Experience with revenue-share or performance-based partner programs.

• Campaign attribution: Familiarity with tracking links, conversion attribution, or measuring marketing performance.

• Data comfort: Ability to pull and explore data independently using analytics tools.