About the position
At Underdog, we are looking for a passionate product manager to join our team. You will work closely with the growth marketing team to build and optimize our games, ensuring best-in-class experiences for our fantasy customers. This role involves collaborating across all teams to enhance their surfaces and testing practices, serving as a center of excellence for A/B testing and measurement. You will set product strategy, identify and introduce new growth and onboarding products, and ensure that our existing games provide great end-to-end experiences for customers. Additionally, you will lead stand-ups, grooming, planning, and retro sessions with your development team, set success metrics for new features/products, and track metrics post-launch to guide iterative improvements. Your role will also involve active cross-team collaboration, creating new processes when necessary, and ensuring design & engineering are engaged stakeholders in all product initiatives. You will maintain a thorough understanding of responsible gaming best practices and keep up to date with the latest developments in the fantasy product space and the competitive environment.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the growth marketing team to build and optimize games for fantasy customers.
- Collaborate across teams to enhance surfaces and testing practices.
- Serve as a center of excellence for A/B testing and measurement.
- Set product strategy and introduce new growth and onboarding products.
- Ensure existing games provide great end-to-end experiences for customers.
- Lead stand-ups, grooming, planning, and retro sessions with the development team.
- Set success metrics for new features/products and track metrics post-launch.
- Play an active role in cross-team collaboration and create new processes as needed.
- Engage design & engineering stakeholders in all product initiatives.
- Maintain understanding of responsible gaming best practices.
- Stay updated with developments in the fantasy product space and competitive environment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience.
- A passionate player of fantasy sports, OSB products, or similar.
- Experience launching A/B tests and exploring new creative methods.
- Familiarity with Amplitude, Segment, Braze, Branch, Appsflyer, etc.
- Demonstrated experience building growth/funnel products.
- Ability to leverage quantitative and qualitative information to identify product improvements.
- An experimentation mindset with clear hypotheses for validation.
- Expertise in transforming conflicting inputs into actionable plans.
- Ability to create a culture of inclusion and empathy within the team.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience building fantasy growth products.
- Experience with paid media and ad networks.
- Experience working with communities to gather insights on fantasy products.
- Experience working within a regulated industry.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO with flexibility, especially around NFL season.
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- $500 home office allowance.
- Connected virtual first culture with a distributed workforce.
- 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents.
