Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join Underdog, the fastest-growing sports gaming company, and contribute to the development of innovative fantasy sports products. Work closely with engineering to optimize draft games and build best-in-class experiences. Collaborate with your team to set product strategy, introduce new products, and ensure existing games provide excellent customer experiences. You will write user stories, maintain product documentation, lead team meetings, set success metrics, and foster cross-team collaboration. This role requires a passion for fantasy sports and proven experience in building fantasy products. Underdog offers a competitive salary, equity, unlimited PTO, parental leave, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience
• A passionate player of fantasy sports, especially draft products
• Demonstrated experience building fantasy products
• Experience leveraging both quantitative and qualitative information to proactively identify ways for your product to deliver on business goals/KPI’s
• An experimentation mindset centered around forming clear hypotheses and creating ways to quickly validate or invalidate new ideas
• An expert at transforming conflicting or ambiguous inputs from customers and stakeholders into clear and actionable plans
• Ability to create a culture of inclusion and empathy within your team, creating a safe space for open and honest communication

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the drafts engineering team to build and optimize our drafts games to build best-in-class experiences for our fantasy customers
• Partner with your manager and peers to set product strategy, identify and introduce new drafts and games products, while ensuring that our existing games provide great end-to-end experiences for customers
• Write clear user stories and product requirement documentation
• Keep product documentation up to date and maintain development speed by responding to developer questions in a timely manner
• 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
• Play an active role in cross-team collaboration, creating new processes when necessary to more effectively stay aligned
• Ensure design & engineering are engaged stakeholders in all product initiatives. Proactively solicit their input for roadmap decisions & planning
• Maintain a thorough understanding of responsible gaming best practices
• Keep up to date with the latest developments in the fantasy product space and the competitive environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building fantasy draft products
• Experience working with communities to gather insights and feedback on fantasy products
• Experience working within a regulated industry

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents