Senior Product Manager, Genius Sports
Data API User Experience
$165-200k
3+ days a week in office
Sports data & technology company
Job no longer available
Sports data & technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$165-200k
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the must-have digital technology partner for all leagues, sports content distributors, sportsbooks, and brands.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience is required in the discipline of product management, with a proven record of launching and scaling API products
- Demonstrated passion for APIs, their design, tooling, lifecycle, and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have experience working with distributed high-volume, low-latency data and services, including a working knowledge of real-time streaming systems
- Solid understanding of software development processes and ability to converse fluently with engineering teams and discuss technical concepts and requirements
- Proficiency in API design standards, protocols, and architectures (REST, GraphQL, SOAP, etc.)
- Understanding of API security best practices, authentication, and authorization methods (OAuth, JWT, etc.)
- User-centric mindset with the ability to advocate for the user and incorporate user feedback into the product development process
- Understand cost implications of solutions (technology and cloud infrastructure) and provide recommendations to manage costs
- Ability to direct and influence a team of architects, engineers, and product stakeholders in the conceptualization, design, and delivery of a cohesive API product strategy
- Exceptional communication skills, in writing and verbally, whether in small group discussions, large-scale presentations, or with senior leadership and customers
- Comfortable applying a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to define success
- Experience in Agile product development and delivery, including backlog management, refinement, and prioritization
- Experience of user-centric design-thinking and goal-oriented workflows is essential
- You will work as part of the Sports Data product and engineering delivery teams, so a strong working knowledge of data management and data governance practices is essential
What the job involves
- We are looking for a product manager who has defined, built, operated, and scaled API products in a highly cross-functional environment
- Great API's express the business and data of the company; they must be intuitive, approachable, and easy to use
- You will guide a cross-functional team to research, define, and deliver core APIs to improve how we collect, manage, connect, and deliver core data inside and outside the company
- The data platform is a foundation for go forward products and includes key attributes such as data acquisition at scale, data parsing, normalization, identity services, policy, best record matching, and data access
- You will work as part of the Sports Data product and engineering delivery teams, so a strong working knowledge of data management and data governance practices is essential
- Working with a variety of stakeholders (sports betting, fan engagement, advertising, leagues/teams, 3rd party data providers and consumers) to understand their business needs and ways of collaborating to provide rich APIs that securely expose intuitive, flexible data and workflows
- Own the API product strategy and roadmap and review the roadmap with key stakeholders to ensure alignment including the ownership and creation of data sharing/distribution user stories
- Understand trade-offs amongst both developers—the API’s direct customers— and the end users those developers serve
- Maintain and rationalize our existing API portfolio to create a strategy and roadmap, including technology fit, to optimize those APIs being utilized/supported, sunsetting legacy API implementations, migrating customers from these, evolving current tools, and building new tools where necessary
- Take the long view; prioritize ease of consumption, core use-cases, and seek to increase the likelihood the API can continue to provide strategic value and extensibility in the future
- Provide documentation, consistent design standards, considerations for versioning and security, and other factors important for future use and extensibility
- Define product functional, scalability, configuration, and deployment requirements
- Partner with engineering to build robust end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities to assist in maintaining highly available and performant processing
Our take
Genius Sports is a sports data and technology provider that acquires precise data about worldwide sports events. It then delivers data in the form of video streaming and integrity services to the sports, betting, and media ecosystem in order to empower them to create unique fan experiences.
The company differentiates itself through the fact that it has exclusive rights to access the official data of its over 240,000 covered events, being the official provider of critical data about these events. Since launching they have become the trusted partner of organisations such as the NFL, NBA, FIFA, EPL and NASCAR.
Genius Sports operates in a competitive field, with the likes of Sportradar and Stats Perform. However, the company's range of strategic acquisitions, partnerships, dMY Technology Group merger, and its impressive NYSE valuation have further increased its stake in this competitive industry.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2015
$13.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $13.2m
Company benefits
- Annual leave allowance
- Skills training
- Fitness & wellbeing programme
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Workcation (1 month working from anywhere worldwide)
- Volunteer Day
- World Mental Health Day off
- Christmas-New Year off
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Mark Locke
(CEO)Under Mark’s leadership, Genius has grown exponentially to become one of the world’s largest sports data and technology companies.
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