Product Manager

Your Role

We’re hiring a Product Manager for American Football who is accountable for the end-to-end success of large-scale initiatives, defining the strategic vision and translating it into market impact. This role leads cross-functional teams through both discovery and delivery, ensuring our technical outputs result in measurable business outcomes. This role balances being highly strategic and highly operational.  We are building out our product suite and need someone to help us get where we need to go in the US American Football market.  

As a Product Manager, you’ll:

• Set outcomes and prioritization. You’ll define the outcomes for your football initiatives and evangelize the desired customer and business results to your squad and the company.
• Lead discovery and delivery. You’ll ensure the product backlog is transparent and prioritized while leading discovery efforts to reduce value, viability, usability, and feasibility risks before development.
• Drive product viability. You’ll ensure solutions work within business constraints by contributing a solid knowledge of marketing, sales, finance, legal, and privacy requirements.
• Champion the user. You’ll live on the ground floor by regularly interacting with customers to gain empathy, synthesizing quantitative and qualitative data to drive product improvements.
• Influence the roadmap. You’ll contribute to the long-term football strategy and roadmap, using data and logic to influence your teammates, stakeholders, and executives.
• Lead cross-functional efforts. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, design, and release teams to ensure solutions are successfully delivered to the market.

Our priority is to hire someone for this role who lives near our office in Lincoln, Nebraska, but we're also open to remote candidates who live in the following states: AL, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NE, NH, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WI, WY. We are not open to considering candidates in other locations at this time.

Please note that this role includes travel for training, attending clinics, and working with users up to 20% of the time. 

Must-Haves

• Experienced in product management. You have 2–5 years of experience as a Product Manager, or experience as an Associate Product Manager.
• An American football expert. You are an acknowledged expert on your target users and can keep up with a high school or college coach when the topic of a 2-high safety defense comes up.
• SaaS experience. You have worked in software-as-a-service companies that serve clients.
• Process proficient. You have a strong understanding of product discovery and delivery techniques, knowing how to tackle risks up front and optimize products once they are live.
• A collaborative leader.