Sr. Principal Product Manager

Fanatics•New York, NY

3h•$250,000 - $320,000

About The Position

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is building one of the most ambitious and customer-focused sportsbooks in the industry. We combine product excellence, deep sports expertise, and cutting-edge technology to create seamless, high-performance betting experiences at scale. As part of a fast-growing and highly competitive market, we are committed to delivering intuitive, reliable, and differentiated products that customers trust and return to every day. The Role We are seeking a Senior Principal Product Leader to join the Fanatics Betting & Gaming Sportsbook team. In this role, you will operate as one of the most senior product authorities within the organization, shaping not only a critical customer domain but influencing the broader product strategy and operating model across the Sportsbook. You will own and evolve a mission-critical area of the customer experience that sits at the heart of how customers engage with and derive value from our platform. Beyond domain ownership, you will ensure that strategy, execution, and product quality standards scale effectively across multiple teams and adjacent domains. This role combines deep product craft expertise with enterprise-level strategic influence. You will partner directly with executive leadership to shape long-term direction, investment priorities, and competitive positioning, while ensuring operational excellence across high-scale transactional systems. You will work closely with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Commercial, Data, and Operations to align product strategy with broader business objectives and long-term growth ambitions.

Requirements

12–15 years of product management experience, including ownership of large-scale, high-impact digital platforms.
Demonstrated experience shaping multi-year product strategy with measurable commercial impact.
Proven ability to lead senior product leaders and influence across multiple domains or verticals.
Strong enterprise thinking — capable of balancing innovation, risk management, scalability, and operational performance.
Exceptional executive communication and storytelling skills, with experience influencing C-level stakeholders.
Deep experience in high-frequency, high-scale transactional environments.
Track record of elevating product standards, mentoring senior leaders, and strengthening organizational capability.

Nice To Haves

Experience in sports betting, gaming, fintech, ecommerce, or similarly complex digital ecosystems strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Shape and influence the multi-year vision for a core sportsbook experience, aligning it to 1-, 3-, and 5-year business objectives and ensuring clear investment rationale across short- and long-term horizons.
Act as the senior product authority for your domain, setting quality bars for customer experience, reliability, scalability, and commercial impact.
Influence portfolio-level prioritization decisions, ensuring alignment between domain investments and enterprise strategy.
Prepare and lead executive-level forums that define direction, risk posture, innovation strategy, and measurable performance outcomes — acting as a trusted advisor in high-stakes decision-making.
Oversee multiple senior product leaders and teams, ensuring strong delegation, clarity of accountability, and consistent execution discipline across complex, interdependent systems.
Elevate product craft standards across teams, embedding best practices in discovery, experimentation, analytics, and outcome measurement.
Proactively identify structural, capability, or organizational gaps and recommend improvements that increase overall product effectiveness.
Partner deeply with Engineering leadership to ensure architectural decisions support long-term scalability, extensibility, and performance at enterprise scale.
Anticipate market shifts, competitive dynamics, and industry trends, translating them into forward-looking product opportunities.