Product Manager

Hudl•Lincoln, NE

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hudl is seeking a Product Manager to join their team and help build Hudl’s ‘Director Operating System’. This platform is crucial for Club Directors, High School Athletic Directors, and League Operators who manage youth and scholastic sports. Historically, Hudl has excelled in creating products for teams, coaches, and athletes in areas like video, performance analysis, recruiting, and video capture. As the company expands into registration, payments, ticketing, streaming, scheduling, and communications, the focus is shifting to Directors who operate sports organizations at scale. These leaders are responsible for a wide range of tasks including managing schedules, registration, payments, facilities, communications, game-day operations, compliance, and fan experience. The Product Manager will be instrumental in developing the operational foundation that reduces chaos, increases confidence, and frees up Directors' time to focus on athletes, coaches, and long-term growth rather than constant problem-solving. The role involves leading product squads as a product owner, building operational tools for scheduling, facilities, registration, payments, communications, and game-day readiness, driving discovery and delivery of new features, shaping product strategy, designing AI-powered workflows to automate manual tasks and reduce friction, and connecting with various business departments to ensure comprehensive solution integration.

Requirements

2–4+ years of experience as a Product Manager building and shipping customer-facing software products.
Meaningful experience playing, coaching, or working in sports and deeply understand the operational realities of clubs, schools, leagues, or athletic organizations.
Experience using AI tools and building AI-powered workflows into products to improve customer outcomes and reduce operational burden.
A natural leader who can influence and inspire teammates and stakeholders without formal authority.
A 'learn-it-all' who seeks out diverse perspectives and has a deep understanding of how customers engage with products.
Values outcomes over hours and understands that the best solutions come from working closely with their squad and stakeholders.
Can connect day-to-day product decisions to larger company strategy and long-term market opportunities.

Nice To Haves

Experience building products related to scheduling, registration, payments, communications, facilities management, ticketing, or organizational workflows.
Strong experience working in SaaS environments and understanding how to build products that scale across organizations and customer segments.
Deep knowledge of the sports technology landscape and relevant industry trends.
Comfortable navigating technical conversations, supporting customer escalations, and helping customers understand how to get value from the product.
Understanding of how to build for multi-sided ecosystems involving admins, coaches, parents, athletes, fans, and governing bodies.

Responsibilities

Lead product squads, acting as the product owner, keeping the backlog transparent and prioritized while collaborating with design and engineering to deliver on-strategy outcomes.
Build Director Operations products, creating operational tools for scheduling, facilities, registration, payments, communications, and game-day readiness for high school Athletic Directors, Club Directors, and League Administrators.
Drive discovery for projects to reduce risks around value and usability, and work with a release team to ensure successful market launch with measurable impact.
Evaluate opportunities based on customer value, business viability, and long-term platform strategy, and help define the roadmap for your team.
Use AI tools and product thinking to automate manual work, reduce operational friction, and help customers operate by exception.
Build strong context across customer success, sales, partnerships, legal, finance, and support to ensure solutions work for the broader business and ecosystem.