PlayOn is seeking a Product Manager to lead a cross-functional product pod focused on solving complex B2B challenges. You will deliver solutions that delight our partners and customers while driving company growth. Collaborating with product designers and engineers, you'll craft effective products that align with various business constraints, including marketing, sales, service, finance, legal, and privacy considerations. We follow an Agile process to iteratively drive important business outcomes. Leveraging data insights and market trends, you'll ensure our products succeed in a competitive landscape.
As part of the Product Management Team, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside an extremely passionate and supportive team focused on building market-leading, innovative solutions. Your work will play a pivotal role in enhancing the user experience and driving the success of our B2B platform in the competitive landscape.
THE OUTCOMES WE EXPECT.
Deliver scalable and innovative solutions for PlayOn HQ, empowering customers while driving meaningful business outcomes.
Outcome/Key Result: Increase adoption and engagement across the platform’s key features by leveraging a product-led growth strategy, focusing on self-serve capabilities and user-focused enhancements.
Outcome/Key Result: Strengthen HQ’s scalability and reliability with foundational modernization efforts.
Outcome/Key Result: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build systems that align with and support broader company goals.
Product Development and Strategy: Define and execute product strategies alongside Product Leadership. Lead the product lifecycle for your products from ideation through to launch, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
Customer-Centric Solutions: Identify, prioritize, and solve the most impactful customer problems by harnessing insights from stakeholders and data. Translate customer and internal user needs into clear, well-defined functional and technical requirements backed by data analysis and market research.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Enhance the effectiveness of your team by coordinating with design, engineering, and the business. Align all stakeholders around a unified vision, strategy, roadmap, and timeline.
Market and User Research: Conduct ongoing market research alongside User Experience Teams to inform product decisions. Stay attuned to the evolving landscape of high school athletics and activities, competitor offerings, and industry best practices.
Performance Management: Establish KPIs and monitor product performance. Communicate progress and results to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
THE TALENTS YOU BRING
- 3+ years of Product Management experience, ideally in an Agile Software development
- Proven experience managing cross-functional teams and driving projects from conception to completion
- Strong communication stills, with the ability to translate technical problems to engineers and business value back to the business
- A passion for solving problems through product discovery, development, and data
- Self-motivated and dedicated with proven creative, data-driven, and critical thinking skills
- Experience with product-led business is preferred
HOW YOU PLAY
- Ownership over Participation - You take responsibility for achieving holistic outcomes, prioritize key objectives, and adapt quickly when situations require a different approach. You follow through even against the toughest challenges.
- Team over Stars - You are a bridge builder, establishing processes and relationships with teams outside your own. You work to rally around common goals, find win-win solutions, compromise when necessary, and help others succeed.
- Growth over Comfort - You are driven by a desire to grow and actively seek opportunities to expand your comfort zone, skills, and confidence. You embrace new challenges with curiosity, accepting discomfort and failure as opportunities to learn.
- Fairness over Popularity - You approach decisions with a scientist’s mindset, challenging your assumptions and remaining objective. You consider long-term impact rather than relying on short-term gains, proactively seek others’ perspectives, and manage emotions in decision-making.
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Company Overview
PlayOn is a dynamic growth-stage company dedicated to championing the spirit of play in the high school space. Backed by KKR, our family of brands—including GoFan, NFHS Network, and VidSwap—empowers schools with innovative solutions and exceptional service. Our fan engagement platform is the only one that offers event ticketing, streaming, fundraising, concessions, merchandise sales, and website management in one place. We save administrators time so they can focus on what truly matters: supporting the students, staff, and fans who bring their programs to life.
Trusted by thousands of schools across the country, we're here to help create more instant replays, hold-your-breath moments, last-minute comebacks, and games you want to watch over and over again.
When being there means everything, we make sure you never miss a moment.
Why you’ll love working at PlayOn
Product, potential, and people. We’re a leader in the high school event space, constantly evolving our product to meet the needs of administrators. We focus on solving real challenges, learning quickly, and creating impactful solutions.
This is a growth-stage company, meaning your contributions have real impact. You’ll have opportunities to grow your skills, tackle meaningful problems, and make a difference in the lives of schools and the students and fans they serve.
Our culture is built on accountability, collaboration, growth, and fairness. We don’t just show up—we show up for each other. Everyone wears the same jersey, and we play hard, make the extra pass, and cheer one another on. Losses teach us, challenges motivate us, and persistence drives us forward. We value integrity over shortcuts, choosing to do what’s right even when it’s hard. Together, we strive to be better every day—because we know that’s how we win as a team.
The Benefits We Offer
Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from
Dental, vision life and disability insurance
Employee Emergency Fund
Company equity (stock options)
Open PTO policy
401K plan with company match
Hybrid/flexible work environment
Note: Must be a full-time employee to participate in the company’s employee health benefit plan. Part-time employees and interns are not eligible to participate.
What We Do
PlayOn is the all-in-one fan engagement platform for schools. We save administrators time so they can focus on what matters: the game, the fans, and the athletes.