Principal Product Manager, American Football Products

Genius Sports•New York, NY

1d•$230,000 - $270,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Genius Sports is seeking an exceptional Principal Product Manager to lead their American Football product suite within the Data & AI product team. This role involves working with leading Football leagues and federations to build, enhance, and maintain products for capturing, processing, and delivering football data and insights to various partners. The position requires owning the full football product suite, including AI-driven eventing, Performance Studio, Next Generation Stats & insights, and data visualizations, across the entire product lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have strong American Football domain experience, be seasoned in delivering B2B SaaS products, comfortable managing a diverse product portfolio, and capable of engaging in both technical and strategic discussions. The role involves defining and evangelizing a product roadmap, managing stakeholders, and driving outcomes using data.

Requirements

7-10 years of relevant product management experience.
Strong American Football domain knowledge/expertise
Product management experience building B2B SaaS or other relevant data feeds/ applications: understanding functional requirements and building for scale.
Strong grasp of product lifecycle mechanics: discovery, analysis, defining and driving OKRs, ideation, prioritization, and delivering measurable outcomes.
Experience owning multiple related products or a product portfolio simultaneously, balancing competing priorities across a suite of offerings.
Extensive background collaborating with UX design partners to build intuitive, user-first experiences.
Strong background in BI and/or analytics required; experience working on data-oriented or sports statistics products preferred.
Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting to executive leadership, participating in the sales cycle, and handling sensitive, critical issues.
Experience working in and delivering products or services in an agile/lean environment, including backlog management (user stories, epics, and bugs).
Proficiency in gathering and transforming product requirements into a practical, prioritized product roadmap.
Degree or equivalent relevant experience required.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience as a football statistician, analyst, or a strong passion for football and football analytics is a plus.

Responsibilities

Build, Maintain, and Grow the Genius American Football Product Suite
Understand customer needs across leagues, teams, media, and betting partners; develop requirements and drive delivery of football events feeds, statistics feeds, Performance Studio, and Next Generation stats/visualizations.
Own the product lifecycle end-to-end — from ideation, discovery, and validation through build, launch, and post-launch growth and iteration — for each product in the football portfolio.
Define and evangelize a clear, prioritized product roadmap for football products, and communicate it consistently to internal and external stakeholders.
Collaborate closely with engineering, design, data operations, and business teams to ensure football product initiatives are delivered on time and on budget.
Provide strategic direction on data-informed, long-term investment opportunities for the football portfolio, evaluating tradeoffs and prioritizing in consultation with cross-divisional partners.
Balance investment across the football product portfolio across three horizons - Now/Horizon 1 (0-12 months), Next/Horizon 2 (12-36 months), and Future/Horizon 3 (36+ months)), ensuring a healthy mix of incremental improvement and longer-term innovation.
Define KPIs that drive business results for football products, build dashboards to measure performance, and make data-driven decisions using both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Partner with commercial, marketing, and operations teams to drive efficient, effective go-to-market motions and continuously gather feedback from leagues, teams, and media/betting partners and translate it into product requirements.
Stay current on football analytics trends, computer vision tracking technology, and competitor offerings to keep the football product suite at the forefront of the industry.