Underdog Fantasy is hiring a
Lead Project Manager

Summary

The job is for a Project Manager at Underdog, a rapidly growing sports gaming company. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, maintaining project tracking, removing blockers, and establishing best practices. The targeted compensation is between $130,000 and $150,000, depending on experience.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience supporting a development team(s)
• Comfortable in leading cross-functional collaboration and building alignment around a vision
• A proactive approach, turning ideas into action, problems into opportunities through customer advocacy, process improvement, and process analysis
• Extensive experience working with Scrum/Agile methods, and tools such as Jira, Notion, and G-Suite
• Ability to explain complex concepts or problems of varying content, style, and form to fit the needs of diverse audiences

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to confirm priorities and dependencies of all project deliverables and ensure expectations are being met
• Clearly communicate with stakeholders regarding actions and deliverables for their team, including actions in place for addressing any open issues
• Maintain up-to-date tracking of roadmap commitments and provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
• Identify and remove blockers and dependencies with other partner teams across the organization
• Act as an advocate and team member working alongside one or more agile development teams, and ensure points of collaboration between teams are running smoothly
• Work with team members to identify, define, and document best practices and decisions made
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in directly managing a project management team
• Experience of building processes ground up
• Familiarity or interest in the sports betting industry and product landscape

Benefits

• The targeted compensation is between $130,000 and $150,000, depending on experience
• Think your skills are exceptional and warrant higher pay? Apply anyway!
• If we agree, we're willing to negotiate
• This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations