As a Product Manager, you will drive product strategy and roadmap execution, lead cross-functional teams, and build engaging experiences for sports fans while measuring impact through metrics.
About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
About the Role
Product plays a pivotal role at The Athletic, spearheading critical cross-functional initiatives and leading teams of engineers, designers, marketers, analysts, and newsroom staff to execute seamlessly on behalf of the business and our users.
As a Product Manager, you will lend your domain and functional expertise to a wide range of Product and business areas. You will build compelling experiences that sports fans love, drive engagement growth down our subscription funnel, and improve our product platforms. You will tackle complex issues that require cross-functional strategic, operational, and technical alignment. This is an individual contributor role, and you will be critical to the success of the Product organization and The Athletic more broadly.
Domain Areas
We have Product disciplines across consumer / sports fan user experiences, engagement growth, commercialization, and platforms
Based on your skillset, interest, and business needs, you will begin in one of these areas, partnering closely with a Director of Product
Over time, you will get to work across main domains, driving impact across the product and business, and building multidisciplinary skills
Responsibilities
- Strategy, Roadmap, and Impact:
- Drive business impact, measured with specific metrics.
- Inform the strategy for your product area to drive those metrics.
- Identify initiatives that will help us achieve that strategy.
- Manage a roadmap that drives impact now and in the future.
- Understand the competitive environment and stay on top of great user experiences.
- Leadership:
- Be a visible leader in your communication and action-orientation.
- Foster a highly collaborative cross-functional environment focused on shared metrics and objectives.
- Contribute to or lead collaborative, productive cross-functional working group(s).
- Execution:
- Execute on your roadmap with a tech pod including Design, Engineering, Marketing, Editorial, and other stakeholders.
- Work closely with the rest of the Product team to align initiatives and dependencies, so that we create a cohesive global product experience.
- Understand technical considerations, and work collaboratively with engineering to balance level of effort and quality + scalability.
Requirements
- 2+ years of highly relevant product management experience; experience at a fast-growing consumer company, especially within sports or media, is a plus.
- High familiarity with and love for sports and journalism.
- Strong communication, organization, and project management skills.
- Action-orientation: you succeed in part because you take initiative and get things done.
- Excitement about getting to work across product disciplines.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects.
- Ability to empathize with users.
- Comfort with data - analyzing data, deriving insights, and making data-driven decisions.
- Eagerness to try new things and learn - and a willingness to fail.
The annual base salary range for this role is $110,000.00 - $130,000.00 USD. The total compensation offered for this position may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, and location. It may also include non-cash rewards and benefits. The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our comprehensive US benefits package includes:
- Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
- Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
- 401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
- Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
For international candidates: Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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