Principal Product Manager, American Football Products at Genius Sports in New York, NY

Job description

By bringing together next-gen technology and the finest live data available, Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide, delivering experiences that are more immersive, interactive and personalized than ever before. Learn more at geniussports.com The Role - Principal Product Manager, American Football Products The Genius Sports Product Team is looking for an exceptional Principal Product Manager to lead our American Football product suite. As part of the Data & AI product team, you will work with the leading Football leagues and federations (e.g., NFL, NCAA, and others) to build, enhance, and maintain the products that capture, process, and deliver football data and insights to teams, leagues, media, and betting partners around the world. You will own the full football product suite — AI-driven/automated eventing, Performance Studio enhancements, Next Generation Stats & insights, and Rich data graphics/visualizations — across the entire product lifecycle, from ideation and discovery through build, launch, and ongoing growth and improvement. This is an opportunity to shape how football data and analytics are captured and experienced across the industry defining the modern language of sport. You will be working at the intersection of computer vision, real-time data collection, and advanced sports analytics. The ideal candidate has strong American Football domain experience and is seasoned at delivering modern, data-driven B2B SaaS products, is comfortable owning a diverse product portfolio, and can move fluidly between deep technical/data conversations and strategic, executive-level discussions. You will define and evangelize a clear product roadmap, manage cross-functional stakeholders, and drive measurable outcomes using both qualitative and quantitative data. What You Will Own: As the Senior Product Manager, American Football, you will be responsible for a suite of football products spanning the full data and analytics value chain: Football Events Feeds – Real-time and post-game football events feeds used by leagues, broadcasters, and downstream partners. Football Statistics Feeds – Core and advanced football statistics feeds that power team, player, and league-level analysis. Performance Studio – Driving a roadmap of continual improvements to our player and team performance analytics platform, including new metrics, workflows, and user experience improvements. Next Generation Stats & Visualizations – Development of next-generation football statistics, tracking-derived metrics, and data visualizations that differentiate Genius Sports in the market. Job Responsibilities: Build, Maintain, and Grow the Genius American Football Product Suite Understand customer needs across leagues, teams, media, and betting partners; develop requirements and drive delivery of football events feeds, statistics feeds, Performance Studio, and Next Generation stats/visualizations. Own the product lifecycle end-to-end — from ideation, discovery, and validation through build, launch, and post-launch growth and iteration — for each product in the football portfolio. Define and evangelize a clear, prioritized product roadmap for football products, and communicate it consistently to internal and external stakeholders. Collaborate closely with engineering, design, data operations, and business teams to ensure football product initiatives are delivered on time and on budget. Provide strategic direction on data-informed, long-term investment opportunities for the football portfolio, evaluating tradeoffs and prioritizing in consultation with cross-divisional partners. Balance investment across the football product portfolio across three horizons - Now/Horizon 1 (0-12 months), Next/Horizon 2 (12-36 months), and Future/Horizon 3 (36+ months)), ensuring a healthy mix of incremental improvement and longer-term innovation. Define KPIs that drive business results for football products, build dashboards to measure performance, and make data-dr