Senior Director, Product

Accountabilities:

• • Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap across Coaching, Player Personnel, Recruiting, and Intelligence, creating coherence across a portfolio developed through organic growth and acquisitions.
  • Develop a differentiated, multi-sport AI strategy focused on high-value workflows such as opponent scouting, self-scouting, talent evaluation, recruiting, free agency, transfer portal activity, and contract or scholarship decision-making.
  • Translate the AI strategy into a multi-quarter product roadmap, identifying where agentic experiences can create meaningful leverage and where traditional SaaS workflows remain the right solution.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers and product leaders operating across multiple sports, markets, and geographies.
  • Serve as the senior external representative for the product portfolio in customer discussions, league partnerships, enterprise RFPs, and industry forums.
  • Maintain deep relationships with coaches, front-office executives, GMs, scouting directors, personnel leaders, and league operators to continuously identify customer needs and market opportunities.
  • Partner with engineering, design, data science, product marketing, GTM, and finance teams to establish priorities, accelerate execution, and deliver differentiated products.
  • Collaborate with proprietary data and technology teams to turn unique datasets into AI-powered products and agents, making strategic decisions about platform-level versus product-level capabilities.
  • Identify common workflows across sports while respecting meaningful differences between markets, maximizing shared technology leverage without compromising sport-specific customer needs.
  • Drive integration and strategic alignment across acquired and organically developed product portfolios, establishing a cohesive product vision and operating model.
  • Own revenue and P&L accountability for the product category, partnering with commercial teams to secure major enterprise and league-wide opportunities and expand into new sports and international markets.
  • Provide clear product leadership through periods of organizational growth, transformation, and ambiguity while maintaining strong execution and accountability.

  Requirements:

  • 8+ years of experience in product management or software development within B2B SaaS, sports technology, vertical AI, or a comparable technology-driven industry.
  • Demonstrated success managing and evolving a multi-product portfolio, with the strategic judgment to determine where AI-native experiences create value versus where established SaaS workflows remain more effective.
  • Proven experience leading product managers and product leaders in complex, multi-market environments, including organizations experiencing acquisitions, rapid growth, or significant transformation.
  • Alternatively, experience operating as a General Manager or business-unit leader with ownership of strategy, roadmap, go-to-market, and P&L outcomes.
  • Deep knowledge of professional and/or collegiate sports, including a strong understanding of how front offices, coaches, GMs, personnel teams, scouting organizations, and leagues make decisions and purchase technology.
  • Strong sports fluency, with the credibility to engage directly with senior sports executives and practitioners.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and shipping AI-native products, ideally involving proprietary datasets and models.
  • Understanding of AI technology tradeoffs, including in-house machine learning, third-party foundation models, and hybrid approaches.
  • Experience working with data science and engineering teams to translate proprietary data into differentiated product capabilities.
  • Experience integrating or rationalizing acquired product portfolios is highly desirable.
  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to operate effectively with customers, league partners, technical teams, and commercial leaders.
  • Strategic and commercially minded, with the ability to connect product decisions to revenue, market expansion, and P&L performance.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and capable of turning complex challenges into clear priorities and executable plans.
  • Strong customer orientation and a demonstrated ability to stay close to users throughout product discovery, development, and iteration.
  • Experience directly selling or delivering technology products to professional sports organizations is a strong advantage.
  • Subject matter expertise in football or basketball through coaching, scouting, front-office, analytics, athletic, or product experience is a plus.
  • This position is not eligible for employer sponsorship at this time.

  Benefits:

  • Competitive executive-level compensation aligned with experience and scope of responsibility.
  • High-impact product leadership opportunity at the intersection of elite sports, SaaS, proprietary data, and AI.
  • Broad product ownership spanning multiple products, sports markets, customer segments, and geographies.
  • Executive visibility and customer exposure, including opportunities to work with professional and collegiate sports organizations and league stakeholders.
  • Leadership opportunity to build and develop a high-performing product organization.
  • AI innovation exposure, with the opportunity to shape AI-native workflows and products powered by proprietary data.
  • Growth and expansion opportunities across new sports, markets, and international regions.
  • Inclusive workplace: Commitment to diversity, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process.