Product Manager - Sports Media API

Sportradar•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Product Manager serves as a key execution partner across the Sports Media API portfolio, primarily supporting U.S.-based sports products and content initiatives. This is a Product Management role focused on turning portfolio strategy into action by defining requirements, managing priorities and backlogs, triaging product issues, coordinating delivery, and moving initiatives from discovery through launch. The role spans multiple Sports Media products and supports day-to-day product ownership of major U.S. sports APIs and related content initiatives, including NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college sports, NASCAR, and golf. The Product Manager provides additional product capacity and subject-matter expertise so issues, opportunities, and roadmap initiatives can be handled effectively without unnecessary single points of failure. They partner with Engineering, data collection, customers, Support, Technical Success, Sales, and other stakeholders to identify problems and deliver scalable product improvements. The role also contributes to API and content integrations, product quality, commercialization, and business cases. The position is hybrid and office-first, with team members working in the office three days a week. The salary range is $94,000–$96,000 USD annually. Sportradar describes its benefits as including a comprehensive benefits package, performance bonus program, equity stock purchase, and 401(k) contribution, subject to eligibility requirements.

Requirements

Demonstrated Product Management experience with direct ownership of products, product areas, or meaningful product initiatives.
Strong understanding of customer discovery, prioritization, requirements definition, roadmaps, backlog management, delivery, and product lifecycle management.
Strong execution skills and ability to move between strategy and detailed delivery.
Experience partnering closely with Engineering, data, or operational teams.
Ability to operate independently and make decisions in ambiguous environments.
Working understanding of RESTful APIs and data-driven products.
Strong analytical skills and experience using KPIs and customer signals to inform product decisions.
Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, or comparable product management tools and agile development practices.

Nice To Haves

Interest in sports, sports media, data products, or technology-driven content experiences.

Responsibilities

Own and manage product roadmaps and backlogs for assigned initiatives and capabilities.
Translate product and content strategy into requirements, priorities, decisions, and delivered improvements.
Partner with Engineering and data collection teams to diagnose issues, clarify requirements, establish priorities, and drive work to resolution.
Work with customers, Support, Technical Success, Sales, and other stakeholders to understand customer problems and distinguish one-off requests from scalable product opportunities.
Identify recurring API, customer, and operational issues and translate patterns into product, tooling, monitoring, documentation, process, or data-quality improvements.
Define and measure product KPIs across usage, customer behavior, support trends, product quality, and commercial performance.
Support new content and third-party integrations by evaluating product fit, customer value, requirements, dependencies, and implementation tradeoffs.
Contribute to product packaging, commercialization, and business cases involving revenue, cost, customer demand, or investment tradeoffs.
Communicate product decisions, priorities, risks, tradeoffs, and status across technical, commercial, operational, and leadership audiences.

Benefits

Collaborative environment with colleagues around the world and social events and teambuilding.
Flexibility to manage the workday and tasks with autonomy.
Vibrant and inclusive community, including Women in Tech and Pride groups.
Global Employee Assistance Programme.
Calm and Reulay well-being apps.
Online training videos.
Flexible working hours.
Comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements.
Performance bonus program.
Equity stock purchase.
401(k) contribution.