Principal Product Manager

Fanatics Betting & Gaming•New York, NY

2d•$225,000 - $275,000

About The Position

We are looking for a Principal Product Leader to join the Fanatics Betting & Gaming sportsbook team, where Product, Design and engineering work closely together to deliver high-quality, customer-focused betting experiences. As part of one of the fastest-growing sportsbooks in the industry, you will play a critical role in shaping and evolving the core customer journey within our platform. In this role, you will own the end-to-end strategy and execution for a critical, high-frequency area of the experience that sits at the heart of the sportsbook. You will define how customers interact with, transact on, and engage with our product — ensuring the experience is intuitive, reliable, scalable, and commercially impactful. You will be responsible for setting the long-term vision for this domain, overseeing multiple product teams, and ensuring delivery aligns with clear customer and business outcomes. This is a high-impact leadership role with significant visibility across senior stakeholders and meaningful influence on the direction of the Sportsbook. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional partners across UX, Engineering, Data, Trading, Commercial, Marketing, and Operations to evolve key journeys, improve performance, and deliver measurable value grounded in insight, experimentation, and strong product judgment.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in various Product Management roles, ideally owning complex, high-scale customer-facing digital products.
Proven experience leading multiple product teams or senior product leaders within a defined domain.
Demonstrated ownership of high-frequency transactional experiences with measurable business impact.
Strong commercial acumen and fluency in data-driven product development and experimentation.
A structured, strategic thinker who can navigate complexity and make clear, high-quality tradeoff decisions.
Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional leaders.
Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with meaningful scale and performance requirements.

Nice To Haves

Experience in sports betting, gaming, fintech, ecommerce, or similarly complex digital platforms is preferred.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the strategy for a critical area of the sportsbook, ensuring it delivers exceptional customer value and measurable business impact.
Work with Product and Commercial leadership to understand the strategy for the business to succeed over a 1, 3 and 5 year period. From this, you will build & own the vision and roadmap for your domain, balancing innovation, optimization, scalability, and operational excellence.
Prepare and deliver clear, structured executive presentations that articulate domain strategy, roadmap priorities, performance insights, and key tradeoffs — influencing senior stakeholders through data-driven narratives and strong product judgment.
Oversee multiple product managers and teams, ensuring clarity of ownership, disciplined prioritization, and strong outcome-driven execution.
Establish clear success metrics and hold teams accountable for measurable improvements in engagement, experience quality, and commercial performance.
Embed customer insight, experimentation, and analytics deeply into product decisions, raising the bar for product craft across the domain.
Partner closely with Engineering leadership to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of high-traffic transactional systems.
Work across Data, CRM, Commercial, Platform, and Operations teams to deliver cross-cutting initiatives and align investments with enterprise priorities.
Clearly articulate strategy, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk to senior leadership, influencing decisions through strong judgment and structured thinking.
Mentor and develop senior product managers, scaling your impact through strong delegation, coaching, and accountability.
Proactively manage dependencies and sequencing across complex systems, ensuring alignment without slowing momentum.
This role requires a strong strategic mindset combined with deep product craft expertise, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate effectively at both executive and execution levels.