Product Manager- Fan Engagement, Video Highlights

A bit about us:   
Genius Sports is at the forefront of the sports technology landscape, delivering real-time data and innovative digital solutions that connect sports, brands, and fans worldwide. From data capture to distribution, we are an integral partner to sports leagues and federations—including the NFL, English Premier League, FIBA, and NCAA—ensuring that critical data and cutting-edge products reach millions of users. 

If you want to be part of a passionate global team shaping the future of sports entertainment, then come and join us. We foster an environment where creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning drive innovation for our partners and end-users.  
  

The role: Product Manager, Fan Engagement, Video Highlights
As a Product Manager, Fan Engagement, reporting directly to the VP of Fan Engagement, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to build, enhance, and optimize our fan engagement offerings. Your primary focus will be on designing, developing and maintaining an auto-clipping highlights tool that leverages real-time sports data and next-generation video & advertising capabilities to drive repeat fan engagement.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Drive Fan Engagement: Develop and optimize compelling highlights content for social media and microsites, ensuring they leverage real-time sports data and insights to captivate fans and encourage ongoing interaction.
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with architects, developers, marketers, and testers to ensure that our fan engagement products are built to the highest standards and meet the needs of our users.
• Innovate and Evolve: Identify opportunities to enhance existing products and introduce new features that increase fan interaction and satisfaction.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize data and user feedback to inform product decisions, prioritize initiatives, and refine the product roadmap.
• Market Awareness: Stay informed on market trends, competitive products, and industry advancements to ensure our offerings remain cutting-edge and relevant to fans.
• User Experience: Focus on creating intuitive, seamless, and personalized user experiences across our highlight's product
  

Position Requirements:  

• 5+ years of product management experience with a focus on customer or fan engagement across digital platforms such as mobile, web, or OTT. 
• Proven track record in managing B2C or B2B2C product roadmaps, including defining, executing, and communicating strategies that drive engagement and retention.  
• Track record of internal and customer-facing product roadmaps including definition, execution, and communication/socialization as well as experience developing other key product management artefacts (product briefs, epics, user stories, wireframes, etc.)  
• Experience optimizing and evolving current products while envisioning, planning, launching and growing new products into the market  
• Previous experience in video products as relates to auto-clipping, highlight generation, and social media api publication is highly desired.  
• A proven ability to apply data-driven insights from market trends, customer feedback, and the competitive landscape to make informed product decisions about product priorities, strategy, and direction  
• A combination of critical thinking and pragmatic decision making to yield the best short-term as well as long-term product results   
• A sense of urgency and ability to act quickly and decisively possessing self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position or making a recommendation  
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization  
• Demonstrated success working in a matrixed environment at scale partnering across all functions, business groups, and geographies  
• Demonstrated success in driving positive cultural change and fostering and environment where employees and customers feel connected and motivated to collaborate on the future of fan engagement  

What’s in it for you?   
As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer a host of softer benefits, including many social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.    

The salary for this role is based on an annualized range of $125,000 - $165,000 USD. This role will also be eligible to take part in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan. 
   

How we work:  
We have adapted a forward-thinking ‘Ways of Working’ framework, which sets out (amongst other things) the opportunities for Geniuses to work flexibly, remotely and on working holidays. It affects different teams and locations differently, so please ask for further information in how it would work with this role.  

Our employees are empowered to stretch the boundaries of what’s achievable, always reaching further and pushing the edges to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organization and continue to invest in our highly talented and diverse team of Geniuses.    
Genius Sports Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workforce bring to our business, our customers and our staff. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of age, different abilities or disability, gender re-assignment, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (and any other applicable status). Please let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.