Ubisoft

Senior Product Manager, R6 Esports (Innovation, Data & Operations)

Ubisoft$90K — $120K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience as a Product Manager, overseeing product lifecycle end-to-end.
  • Strong skills in stakeholder management, especially with senior leadership.
  • Data literacy with a solid understanding of data pipelines and quality.
  • Background in esports or live events, with experience in competitive gaming.
  • Ability to think structurally; skilled in writing PRDs and managing discovery sessions.
  • Fluent in English; proficiency in French is highly regarded.
  • Willingness to travel internationally for events.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the product roadmap for esports technology and data tools, balancing immediate needs with future innovations.
  • Translate competitive business requirements into actionable product specifications with technical teams.
  • Run discovery cycles to define challenges, validate solutions, and prioritize effectively.
  • Identify opportunities for synergy between out-of-game and in-game product features.
  • Evaluate potential tech partnerships, defining project scope and requirements collaboratively with stakeholders.
  • Lead alignment meetings across diverse functions including operations, broadcast, and marketing.
  • Monitor and report on product performance to the esports and R6 leadership.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work within one of the most competitive esports ecosystems globally.
  • Engage with a cross-functional team of experts in engineering, business analysis, and QA.
  • Chance to influence the technology and data roadmap for major esports events.
  • Involvement in international coordination for live high-stakes gaming events.
  • Working environment that embraces innovation and cross-discipline collaboration.
Full Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION

The OS Esports team builds and maintains r6esports.com, internal tools and data pipelines that support Rainbow Six Siege esports competitions worldwide, from regional leagues to global majors.

The teamaround 10people spanning engineering, business analysis and QA, working closely with Ubisoft's broaderEsports, R6 andOSteams.

The role

We're looking for a Sr Product Manager to own the technology and data roadmap powering one of the most competitive esports ecosystems in the world, as well managingtechnicalreadiness for global events.

Yousit at the intersection of marketing website, esports operations, data infrastructure, live broadcast tools, working across disciplines to ship products thathave an impact on R6 and esportsstages.

This role reports tothe OS Player Services director with the aimof transitioningto theR6 Esportsmanagementwho owns the strategicesportsproduct vision.

What you'll own

R6 esports product portfolio
  • Drive the product roadmap for esports tech and data tools, balancing short-term operational needs with long-term innovation.
  • Translate business and competitive requirements into clear product specs, working alongside the technical lead and dev team.
  • Run discovery cycles: define problems, validate solutions, and prioritize basedon impact for the R6 esports ecosystem.
  • Identify synergy opportunities andmanage the convergence between out-of-game product portfolioand in-game features/tools that supportR6esports department's objectives
  • Assess viability of new or improved tech partnerships and define their scope and requirements, in collaboration with internal (EVE Cell & OS) and external stakeholders (GRID, AWS, Twitch, Challengermode ...)
  • Lead stakeholder alignment across esports operations, broadcast, marketing, and senior leadership.
  • Track and communicate product performance, shipping regular updates to Esports and R6 leadership.
Dataintegrity
  • Optimize data pipeline and data structure to in and out-of-game needs
  • Coordinate data related operations during competitions across all stakeholders (League Ops, GRID, R6 prod, tech owners ...)
  • Manage data structure changes before implementation
  • Manage fallbacks when automated data flows fail
Operationsandeventsupport
  • Ensure tech products operations and manage risk during T1 esports events
  • Define technical readiness plans across all out-of-game products and features/tools, for each global event (Predictions, GRID, Rehost feature, new Observation tools, Live Display ...)
  • Supervise the live support process for esports data tooling, including incident triage, escalation flows, and SLA definitionahead of and during events
  • Steer operations of the roadmap based on teams' (EVE Cell & OS) resources, esports calendar (Majors, SI, leagues), and newopportunities/requirements (China...).
  • Identify risks and escalate to production owners or tech owners for potential workarounds
QUALIFICATIONS

What we're looking for
  • Proven PM experience : you've owned a product end-to-end, written specs, run prioritization, and shipped in a cross-functional environment.
  • Strong stakeholder management : you're comfortable presenting to senior leadership and aligning people with competing priorities.
  • Data literacy: you understand what a data pipeline does and what good data quality looks like.
  • Esports or live events background: ideally you've worked in or closely with competitive gaming, broadcast, or live production environments.
  • Structured thinker: you can write a clean PRD, facilitate a discovery session, and distill complexity into clear decisions.
  • Fluent in English, French is a strong plus.
  • Travel-friendly : the role involves international coordination and occasional travel for majors and key events.
Nice to have
  • Familiarity with Rainbow Six Siege or Ubisoft's competitive ecosystem
  • Experience working with data or broadcast partners (GRID, AWS, Twitch or equivalent)
  • Comfort with Jira, Confluence, and data dashboards without being a technical user

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment SA is a French video game company headquartered in Montreuil with several development studios across the world. It publishes games for several video game franchises, including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Just Dance, Prince of Persia, Rayman, Raving Rabbids, and Tom Clancy's. The company's largest development studio is Ubisoft Montreal in Canada, which is responsible for the development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Watch Dogs, among others. Ubisoft is the fourth largest publicly traded game company in the Americas and Europe in terms of revenue and market capitalization, after Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive. The company has over 18,000 employees and has development studios in 35 countries. Ubisoft's revenue for the fiscal year 2020-2021 was ?2.2 billion.
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