Product Manager

Hudl•Lincoln, NE

12d•$93,000 - $145,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Hudl is seeking a Product Manager to join their team and contribute to building 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. With the expansion 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 aims to reduce chaos, increase confidence, and free up Directors' time to focus on athletes, coaches, and long-term growth rather than constant problem-solving. As a Product Manager at Hudl, you will lead product squads, acting as the product owner for cross-functional teams. You will maintain a transparent and prioritized backlog, collaborating with design and engineering to achieve strategic outcomes. Your role will involve building the operational tools that support scheduling, facilities, registration, payments, communications, and game-day readiness for various sports administrators. You will drive product discovery to mitigate risks related to value and usability, and then work with a release team to ensure successful market launches with measurable impact. Shaping product strategy will involve evaluating opportunities based on customer value, business viability, and long-term platform strategy, contributing to the team's roadmap. Additionally, you will design AI-powered workflows to automate manual tasks, reduce operational friction, and enable customers to operate more efficiently. Connecting with various business units such as customer success, sales, partnerships, legal, finance, and support will be essential 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.
Ability to influence and inspire teammates and stakeholders without needing formal authority.
A 'learn-it-all' attitude, seeking out diverse perspectives and having a deep understanding of how customers engage with products.
Valuing outcomes over hours and understanding that the best solutions come from working closely with your squad and stakeholders.
Ability to 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.
Comfort navigating technical conversations, supporting customer escalations, and helping customers understand how to get value from the product.
Understanding 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 for a cross-functional squad, keeping the backlog transparent and prioritized while collaborating with design and engineering to deliver on-strategy outcomes.
Build Director Operations products, creating the operational tools that power scheduling, facilities, registration, payments, communications, and game-day readiness for high school Athletic Directors, Club Directors, and League Administrators.
Drive discovery and delivery, leading discovery for projects to reduce risks around value and usability, and then working with a release team to ensure those solutions successfully hit the market with measurable impact.
Shape product strategy, evaluating opportunities based on customer value, business viability, and long-term platform strategy while helping define the roadmap for your team.
Design AI-powered workflows, using AI tools and product thinking to automate manual work, reduce operational friction, and help customers operate by exception instead of constant intervention.
Connect the business, building strong context across customer success, sales, partnerships, legal, finance, and support to ensure solutions work for the broader business and ecosystem.