As a Senior Product Manager, you'll lead product strategy and development for draft games, ensuring great user experiences and engaging with cross-team collaboration.
We’re Underdog.
The fastest-growing sports gaming company – ever.
We build innovative games, products, and experiences for American sports fans.
We’re here to shake up the fastest growing industry with bold ideas, custom-built tech, and the drive to win.
Founded in 2020, our team has built four of today’s most widely played fantasy games and launched the Underdog Sportsbook – built entirely in-house with our own technology. That means we control our product, move fast, and create experiences you won’t find anywhere else.
In just over two years, we’ve reached over a $1.2 billion valuation, with investors like BlackRock, Spark Capital, SV Angel, Mark Cuban, Kevin Durant, and Adam Schefter. And we’re just getting started.
At Underdog, we believe that sports are for everyone. Join us.
About the role and why it’s unique:
- Work every day on a product you love!
- 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.
Who you are:
- 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
Even better if you have…
- Experience building fantasy draft products
- Experience working with communities to gather insights and feedback on fantasy products
- Experience working within a regulated industry
Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $160,000 and $190,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.
What we can offer you:
- 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
#LI-REMOTE
This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations.
Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.
Top Skills
Analytics Tools
Documentation Tools
Metrics Tracking
Product Management Methodologies
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