Product Director, Sportsbook

Fanatics Betting & Gaming•New York, NY

11h•$163,000 - $235,000

About The Position

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Product Director to lead a critical, high-frequency area of its sportsbook experience. The role owns end-to-end product strategy, vision, and execution, shaping how customers discover, engage with, and transact through the product while ensuring experiences are intuitive, reliable, scalable, and commercially impactful. The Product Director leads and develops Product Managers and multiple product teams, strengthening product craft and building a culture of customer obsession, accountability, and continuous improvement. The role partners across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Trading, Commercial, Marketing, CRM, Platform, and Operations to evolve customer journeys, solve complex business problems, and deliver measurable outcomes through customer insight, experimentation, and analytics. It requires leadership at both strategic and execution levels, including communicating priorities and trade-offs to senior leaders and ensuring high-traffic transactional systems perform reliably at scale.

Requirements

10+ years of Product Management experience, ideally leading complex, high-scale, customer-facing digital products.
Proven experience leading multiple Product Managers or Product Leaders, with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and team development.
Experience building healthy product organisations by improving product craft and ways of working.
Demonstrated ownership of high-frequency, transactional customer experiences with measurable commercial impact.
Strong commercial acumen and expertise in data-driven product development, experimentation, and customer insight.
Structured strategic thinking and the ability to navigate complexity and make clear, high-quality trade-off decisions.
Outstanding executive communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional leaders.
Experience attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional product talent.
Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on involvement when needed.
Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with significant scale and performance requirements.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Define and drive the strategy for a critical sportsbook domain, delivering customer value and measurable business impact.
Partner with Product and Commercial leadership to translate long-term business strategy into a product vision and roadmap.
Own and evolve a multi-year product strategy that balances innovation, optimisation, scalability, operational excellence, and commercial impact.
Lead, coach, and develop Product Managers and multiple product teams, supporting career growth and enabling high-quality execution.
Build a high-performing product organisation by raising product craft, encouraging ownership, and fostering continuous learning and accountability.
Prepare and deliver structured, data-driven executive presentations about strategy, roadmap priorities, performance insights, and trade-offs.
Establish customer and business outcomes for teams and create accountability through measurable results.
Embed customer insight, experimentation, and analytics in product decisions.
Partner with Engineering leadership to support the reliability, scalability, and performance of high-traffic transactional systems.
Coordinate cross-functional initiatives with Data, CRM, Commercial, Platform, Trading, and Operations, aligning investments with enterprise priorities.
Communicate strategy, priorities, trade-offs, and risks to senior leadership and influence decisions.
Build organisational capability through delegation, coaching, succession planning, and developing future product leaders.
Manage dependencies and sequencing across complex systems while maintaining alignment and delivery pace.