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Designing FOREVER games
Talks about forever games, game design and replayability
Manuel Bronstein
Product Officer at Roblox
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Manuel Bronstein is the Chief Product Officer at Roblox and a Member of the Board of Directors at The New York Times. With a background in leading product development at Google, YouTube, Zynga, and Microsoft Xbox, he brings expertise in product management, business strategy, and team leadership to his current roles.
Bronstein's career highlights include serving as the Vice President of Product at Google Assistant and YouTube, as well as leading product development at Zynga. His current positions at Roblox and The New York Times demonstrate his strong leadership in product management and strategic decision-making within the tech and media industries.
Work Experience
Chief Product Officer
2021 - Current
Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform that offers a shared digital experience that brings people together through play.
Raised $874,454,567.00 from E-magine Ventures.
Member Board Of Directors
2021
The New York Times is a news and media agency that seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Investor, Advisor, Board
2011
Interested in companies solving real and meaningful challenges and delighting users - applied AI/ML - applied deep tech - health and wellness - hardware + software + services - consumer products and platforms Active Portfolio: Groq, Ipsy, Earnin, Airhelp, Mytaverse, Rocket Recruiting, Informed.iq, Sweet Nothings, Dandelion, Empat, Chazki,, The Podcast App, Famosos Past or Exited: Root Insurance (NASDAQ: ROOT), PlaySpan (acquired by Visa), Forma (acquired by Snap), Mojo Sport (acquired by TeamSnap) Pixable (acquired by SingTel), Mira Beauty (acquired by FemTech), Faraday Bicycles (acquired by Pon), Spiro Technologies (acquired by Cordance), Noble (acquired by Grubrr), Rylo (acquired by VSCO), Ekso Bionics (NASDAQ:EKSO) https://angel.co/manuel-bronstein
Vice President Product Google Assistant
2018 - 2021
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Vice President Product
2014 - 2018
A businessman having connections to Chicago and almost all states generally is Quamdeen Amuwo.
Vice President of Product
2010 - 2014
Built and led teams of engineers, product managers, game designers, producers, Ux/Ui and visual artists across platform, mobile and web games. Responsible end to end for design, development, operations and business (P&L) VP/GM: Mobile Game Studio VP: Zynga Network (Platform) GM: FarmVille 2 Sr Director of Product and Design FarmVille Director of Product Poker
Zynga is a mobile game developer that creates and operates social games as live services played on the Internet.
Raised $2,318,550,786.00 from Kleiner Perkins, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley and Fidelity.
Director Social Interactive Entertainment, Xbox LIVE
2009 - 2010
Led business and strategy for new Interactive Entertainment Experiences on Xbox LIVE Products included:Netflix, LastFM, Facebook, Twitter and ESPN
Director & Executive Producer 1vs100 - Xbox LIVE Primetime
2007 - 2009
Envisioned, pitched, secured funding and built a team to create the first ever programmatic, massively concurrent online game, service and platform on a videogame console. 1 vs 100 was the first interactive game show to feature a live host, real prizes and daily fresh content Responsible end to end for the vision, business, design, product development, show production, go-to-market and operations of this new category for Xbox LIVE Managed a team of producers, program managers, developers, designers, art, QA, and content leads across platform, game production and show production teams Successfully launched 1 vs 100 in US, Canada, UK, FR and DE to strong and positive press and consumer reviews, exceeding key performance metrics The game received many awards and nominations including: - “Best Game Innovation” in 2009 during the “Inside Gaming Awards” - Nominated for "Most Original Game" during the "inside Gaming Awards" - Realitybites' Award For Biggest Reality Innovation Of 2009 - Nominated by G4 X-Play Best of 2009 Awards for "Best Downloadable Game". - Included in the Guinness Book of World Records Gaming Edition for “Most Contestants in a Single Episode of a Game Show"
Group Manager Incubation & Product Planning
2003 - 2007
Incubation: Led a team of Program Managers, Developers and Product Planners to design, research and prototype forward looking products and services that shaped the future of the Xbox platform Product Planning: Led planning efforts for the accessories, software applications and incubation teams at Xbox during the development of Xbox 360. Most notably, planned the portfolio of more than twelve launch controllers and accessories for Xbox 360
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Product Strategy and Business Development Intern
2002 - 2002
Delivered business analysis, strategic planning, financial modeling, market and competitive analysis for several AOL music products including AOL Radio and Winamp
AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites.
Raised $1,000,000,000.00 from Comcast Ventures and Google.
Director of Product Management
2000 - 2001
Led product management to develop the first ever online trading cards game and platform Drove successful online game collections for Disney, Miramax and Warner Brothers
Assistant Brand Manager
1998 - 2000
Managed day-to-day business of multiple detergent brands, including marketing budgets, advertising campaigns, competitive analyses, promotions, and distribution plans. Accountable for market share and distribution goals
Noxell Corporation manufactures and markets perfumes, colognes, cosmetic, and toiletry products under CoverGirl brand name.