Product Senior Director, Discovery & Engagement

FanDuel • Atlanta, GA

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

FanDuel is seeking a Senior Director of Product, Discovery & Engagement to provide vision, direction, and strategic leadership to our Discovery and Engagement efforts within the Sportsbook. This role is accountable for defining and executing product strategy across multiple domains, ensuring tight alignment to broader Business Unit and FanDuel-level objectives while balancing near-term delivery with long-term innovation.
As a Senior Director, you will operate as a portfolio owner and strategic leader, not just a people manager. You will oversee multiple product teams and leaders, guide investment and prioritization decisions across initiatives of varying risk and horizon, and ensure that customer insight, market dynamics, and technology considerations are deeply embedded in roadmap and execution decisions.
You will be a visible and trusted leader across Product, Technology, Commercial, and Executive teams—clearly communicating product strategy, risk posture, and innovation plans, and influencing decisions to drive the right outcomes for the business and our customers. This role requires strong judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to scale product excellence through others.
Success in this role means creating clarity where there is ambiguity, aligning teams around a shared vision, and ensuring FanDuel delivers differentiated, customer-centric experiences at scale—today and over the long term.
In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

Requirements

• Proven experience operating as a Director, Senior Director, or equivalent senior product management leader, owning strategy and outcomes across multiple teams, domains, or a significant product portfolio.
• 10+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated progression into senior leadership roles responsible for strategy, execution, and organizational impact.
• Strong track record of leading leaders—including hiring, coaching, and developing senior product managers and product leaders who themselves manage teams.
• Demonstrated ability to define and scale product strategy, balancing short-term delivery with long-term vision, and translating strategy into clear roadmaps and investment decisions.
• Deep experience partnering with Engineering, Design, and Commercial leadership to drive complex, cross-functional initiatives and manage portfolio-level tradeoffs.
• Strong judgment and fluency in customer research, analytics, experimentation, and market analysis, using evidence to inform strategy and executive decision-making.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities, balancing scope, resourcing, risk, and time horizons at portfolio scale.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments, providing clarity, direction, and decisiveness when information is incomplete.
• Recognized as a trusted executive partner, able to clearly communicate strategy, risk, and outcomes to senior leaders and influence decisions without relying on formal authority.
• Bachelor’s degree or similar higher-level education preferred

Nice To Haves

• Experience and/or passion for sports betting, iGaming, or adjacent regulated, high-scale consumer businesses strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the product vision and strategy across multiple domains, ensuring alignment to Business Unit objectives and FanDuel’s broader enterprise strategy.
• Provide strategic oversight of the product portfolio, balancing short-term vs long-term investments, high- vs low-risk initiatives, and innovation vs operational excellence.
• Ensure product strategy, roadmaps, and investment decisions are consistently grounded in customer insight, market dynamics, industry trends, and available technologies, including informed build-vs-buy decisions.
• Clearly articulate product strategy, priorities, and tradeoffs to senior executives and cross-functional leaders, influencing decisions and driving alignment across the organization.
• Champion the voice of the customer across verticals and domains, ensuring customer needs, pain points, and behaviors meaningfully shape strategy and execution.
• Hold teams accountable for high-quality research practices, providing constructive feedback on research plans, synthesis, and how insights are translated into product decisions.
• Leverage insights from adjacent industries and external markets, translating learnings into differentiated product opportunities for FanDuel.
• Ensure analytics, experimentation, and customer research are consistently embedded across teams as core decision-making inputs.
• Ensure execution and investment across the product portfolio align to strategic priorities, expected outcomes, and agreed funding models.
• Oversee execution across multiple teams and workstreams, ensuring clarity of ownership, disciplined prioritization, and effective dependency management.
• Set clear expectations for outcome-driven delivery, holding teams accountable for measurable impact rather than output.
• Partner with Product, Technology, and Commercial leadership to proactively manage risk, sequencing, and tradeoffs across the portfolio.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with senior leaders across Product, Technology, Commercial, and other key functions to deliver shared outcomes.
• Clearly communicate product portfolio strategy, risk profile, and innovation plans to product peers and senior executive stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted thought partner to executives, shaping decisions through data-informed perspectives, sound judgment, and strategic recommendations.
• Influence across the organization without relying on formal authority, aligning diverse stakeholders around shared goals and priorities.
• Provide oversight across multiple product teams and leaders, ensuring alignment between individual team goals, domain strategy, and broader company roadmaps.
• Lead and develop senior product leaders who themselves manage multiple teams, scaling impact through strong delegation, coaching, and accountability.
• Establish and evangelize a clear product vision and operating model across vertical or horizontal areas, driving consistency while enabling autonomy.
• Act as a go-to leader and subject matter expert for the domain, providing strategic insight, direction, and perspective across the company.
• Foster a culture of high ownership, strong judgment, customer empathy, and continuous learning across the product organization.

Benefits

• We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics.
• We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
• We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards.
• Benefits differ across location, role, and level.
• medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits.
• This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation.
• This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays.
• FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director