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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, data scientists, and analysts to execute seamlessly on behalf of the business and our users. As a Staff Product Manager, you will lend your domain and functional expertise to a wide range of business and Product areas that collectively require multidisciplinary skills. You will tackle highly complex issues that require cross-functional strategic, operational, and technical alignment. This is an advanced individual contributor role, and you will be critical to the success of the Product organization.
This role is 100% remote for candidates currently residing in either the United States or Canada.
Focus of The Role
We have an exciting and ambitious strategy to attain tremendous growth in the next three years. To achieve this vision, we must dramatically improve - and in some cases overhaul - our technical infrastructure and capabilities. We have an initial engineering and data strategy to achieve this, but it requires an exceptional Technical Product leader to drive the product strategy, roadmap, and execution of this work. You will be the critical product linchpin to the success of our technical strategy, and will partner with senior leaders across the technology organization to achieve our goals. This work spans Engineering and Data strategy and capabilities, inclusive of our publishing and content systems, games and sports data, personalization systems, and Generative AI - and covers our web, iOS, and Android platforms.
This is a Technical Product Manager role, and requires exceptionally strong technical skills in order to best partner with Engineering and Data leadership, including two-way communication and translation of Business and Product strategy and impact into and out of the technical work.
Responsibilities
Own a Cohesive Strategy and Roadmap Across a Portfolio of Product Areas
Drive Impact Across Your Teams
Be a Leader of Your Domain and the Product Org at Large
Improve Organizational Operations
Own a Cohesive Strategy and Roadmap Across a Portfolio of Product Areas:
Independently define strategy for horizontal systems or experiences spanning multiple product areas.
Look 12–24 months ahead, planning across seasons and multi-year initiatives.
Articulate the "why" behind product strategy to gain and maintain alignment across stakeholders.
Prioritize platform-level solutions based on multi-team ROI.
Prioritize roadmap based on downstream impact across teams, not just local outcomes.
Inform the overall direction of our product beyond immediate ownership.
Drive Impact Across Your Teams:
Be accountable for multiple teams’ north star and KPIs.
Build and lead cross-functional teams that ship with quality and velocity.
Unblock and accelerate multiple teams simultaneously.
Deliver durable solutions that reduce rework and future operational overhead.
Operate with minimal oversight; consistently avoid surprises.
Balance speed with long-term scalability and maintainability.
Own outcomes end-to-end, from conception through sustained impact.
Be a Leader of Your Domain and the Product Org at Large:
Influence multiple teams and senior stakeholders without direct authority.
Independently navigate - and serve as a trusted thought partner - to technology and company leadership, to drive consensus on complex initiatives.
Proactively align teams around shared goals, definitions, and success metrics.
Foster a highly collaborative cross-functional environment focused on shared metrics and objectives.
Improve Organizational Operations:
Mentor PMs on strategy, tradeoffs, and long-term thinking.
Create reusable frameworks, tools, or processes adopted across teams; viewed as the “gold standard” for the PM org.
Own 1+ complex Product or Tech Org process or culture initiatives.
Requirements
8+ years of highly relevant product management experience.
Clear domain expertise in your area(s) of focus - you are expected to hit the ground running and bring your knowledge and skills to create immediate impact.
Exceptional strategic thinking with the ability to translate business goals into product strategy and roadmap.
A bias to action and the ability to rally teams to deliver results.
Excellence with data - analyzing data, deriving insights, and making data-driven decisions.
Excellence with A/B testing as a tool to rigorously deliver impact.
Excellent collaboration skills and ability to influence a team and drive alignment with stakeholders.
Empathy for users that translates into intuitive, delightful experiences.
Eagerness to try new things and learn - and a willingness to fail.
The annual base salary range for this role is $185,000.00 - $205,000.00 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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