Principal Technical Product Manager

## About the role As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. ## Requirements - Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience. - Fluent in Mandarin and English, able to lead technical meetings and negotiations in both. - Experience with Games as a Service (GaaS) and live operations. - Self-starter who can set a clear path and drive it through ambiguity and obstacles. - Proven track record of leading large, complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-team dependencies. - Stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence and secure resourcing and support from leadership. - Experience of owning a technical product or platform strategy and multi-year roadmap. - Experience managing external or partner development teams and co-development partnerships. - Written and verbal communication, able to translate complex technical topics for leadership audiences. - Experience working with global teams across multiple cultures and time zones, including Chinese companies and work culture, with the ability to work flexible hours. ## Technical strategy - Own and drive the long-term technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for Minecraft China in partnership with internal and external teams. - Lead regular ongoing syncs and organize technical summits between internal and external teams to align high-level technical direction, surface risks and dependencies, share knowledge, and build cross-team relationships. ## Development planning and execution - Ensure on-time delivery of major China content releases, proactively managing dependencies, dev tooling/build upgrades, security needs, and emergent support issues. - Implement strategy and own health of the China codebase by leading technical migrations, reducing tech debt, driving code integration, identifying areas for improvement and working closely with our co-dev partner to understand their needs. ## Team management - Lead and manage external development teams, including resourcing, priorities, access, and roadmaps to ensure healthy operations and unblock high-risk workstreams. - Own resource planning and forecasting (such as annual capacity planning) to ensure the right talent is in place to execute priority China workstreams. ## Partnership management - Manage stakeholder relationships across leadership and partner teams, advocating for China's needs and raising visibility of partner challenges, contributions, and business impact. - Partner with security and compliance to ensure China workstreams meet security standards and partners have appropriate access to internal systems and assets.