CodinGame.com Sr Product Manager

CodinGame is both a game-based training platform for developers and a powerful technical hiring suite for companies.

Companies looking to recruit skilled programmers turn to CodinGame’s assessment solution, CodinGame for Work, to evaluate candidates’ coding skills with tech-friendly, hands-on programming tests that only take 60 seconds to set up.

At the same time, codingame.com, over 2.8 million passionate programmers from around the world sharpen their skills, for free, by playing games and solving puzzles.

In 2021, CodinGame joined forces with CoderPad, the market’s leading technical interview platform, based in San Francisco.
CoderPad’s mission is to improve the technical interviewing experience with tools that allow for standardization and consistency, in the name of reducing bias and increasing equality of opportunity.

Together, our ambition is huge: to establish skill-based recruitment as the norm in tech and create the quickest, easiest and fairest tech hiring experience for thousands of companies worldwide.

Reporting to the CodinGame CEO and CoderPad VP Product & Ops, you will work closely with the tech, product, dev marketing and demand gen teams. Your role as a PM will be to have full ownership of our CodinGame.com community product with more than 3 millions developers and execute our strategy.

Goals

• Focus the community product more on training and improving for interviews and certifications for job requests
• Position the community as a way to show CG & CP are working to improve the candidate experience by providing a way to improve their skills before and after a test assessment
• Use the 3 millions developers of the community to drive business (sales of CodinGame & CoderPad products) and awareness (of those products), including certifications and sharing those

Main responsabilities

• Execute product strategy of CodinGame.com. Prune/design features and games. Focus them to be closer to our business. Improve the way we display all the features toward a single goal: train, learn and get better on tech interviews.
• Promote and partner with other team to have all Live and Screen candidates to improve their skills using CodinGame.com
• Generate business leads organically from the community and drive awereness
• Community management (+3M users) of tech users (forum, discord, …) and leverage it to promote our tech content (video, blog, …)
• Organize recurring events on the community platform
• Support and bugs for CodinGame.com
• Social media monitoring

Opportunity/Challenges

• Full ownership of a 3M+ developers community and product
• Work on a product loved by the tech community
• Move towards a single message and be able to organically generate business leads
• Small team, operational work needed

Impact areas

• International wide tech community
• Help millions of developers to improve their skills
• Become the #1 source of awareness and leads generation for our business

Growth path

• Grow a product team around CodinGame.com community product
• High growth from helping millions of candidates from CoderPad & CodinGame

We believe that great things cannot be accomplished without great people. We are a team, and everyone’s contribution is irreplaceable. We are looking for creative, adventurous, ego-free people who want to be part of a collective adventure. We would like you to come as you are, with your talent, your personality, your strengths and weaknesses.

We are looking for someone with 5+ years of experience, including (in this order of priority):

• Tech background
• Product Management
• Team management
• Wrote coding tests / exercices
• Setup hiring process and hired multiple engineers

Soft skills/behavioral attributes:

• Extraverted, social
• Cross functional communication
• Very autonomous
• Strong leadership
• Passionate about tech
• English speaker
• Having a strong CodinGame.com profile could help ;)

• Meet with Head of People & Culture and CodinGame CEO
• CodinGame.com vision with Tech evangelist and Tech Game Designer
• Product Management with Lead Product Managers
• Technical skills interview with Vp Eng and Lead eng
• Values and culture with CoderPad CEO