Product Manager, The Athletic
$110-130k
Subscription based publisher of sports content
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Subscription based publisher of sports content
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$110-130k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To produce smarter coverage for die-hard fans and redefine the way fans get access to sports content by flipping the normal model for sports journalism.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of highly relevant product management experience; experience at a fast-growing consumer company, especially within sports or media, is a plus
- High familiarity with and love for sports and journalism
- Strong communication, organization, and project management skills
- Action-orientation: you succeed in part because you take initiative and get things done
- Excitement about getting to work across product disciplines
- Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects
- Ability to empathize with users
- Comfort with data - analyzing data, deriving insights, and making data-driven decisions
- Eagerness to try new things and learn - and a willingness to fail
What the job involves
- Product plays a pivotal role at The Athletic, spearheading critical cross-functional initiatives and leading teams of engineers, designers, marketers, analysts, and newsroom staff to execute seamlessly on behalf of the business and our users
- As a Product Manager, you will lend your domain and functional expertise to a wide range of Product and business areas
- You will build compelling experiences that sports fans love, drive engagement growth down our subscription funnel, and improve our product platforms
- You will tackle complex issues that require cross-functional strategic, operational, and technical alignment
- This is an individual contributor role, and you will be critical to the success of the Product organization and The Athletic more broadly
- We have Product disciplines across consumer / sports fan user experiences, engagement growth, commercialization, and platforms
- Based on your skillset, interest, and business needs, you will begin in one of these areas, partnering closely with a Director of Product
- Over time, you will get to work across main domains, driving impact across the product and business, and building multidisciplinary skills
- You'll drive business impact, measured with specific metrics
- Inform the strategy for your product area to drive those metrics
- Identify initiatives that will help us achieve that strategy
- Manage a roadmap that drives impact now and in the future
- Understand the competitive environment and stay on top of great user experiences
- Be a visible leader in your communication and action-orientation
- Foster a highly collaborative cross-functional environment focused on shared metrics and objectives
- Contribute to or lead collaborative, productive cross-functional working group(s)
- Execute on your roadmap with a tech pod including Design, Engineering, Marketing, Editorial, and other stakeholders
- Work closely with the rest of the Product team to align initiatives and dependencies, so that we create a cohesive global product experience
- Understand technical considerations, and work collaboratively with engineering to balance level of effort and quality + scalability
Our take
The Athletic provides authentic, in-depth coverage written by journalists who know the teams they write about inside out. Its model bucks the trend of traditional sports journalism outfits by asking for a subscription rather than relying on ad-revenue.
Despite initial doubts that users would be willing to pay for sports journalistic content, the Athletic has found significant success and was acquired by the New York times in 2022.
This collaboration was criticised at the time by investors who believed that the Athletic was undersold. However, despite The Athletic operating at a loss since the takeover, it's clear that the New York Times perceives the subscription magazine as a long-term investment, predicting that it will be operating at a profit within the next 4 years. This will be aided by accelerated customer growth and the growing trend of subscription-based sports news.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES D
May 2019
$21.8m
SERIES C
Total funding: $139.5m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Adam Hansmann
(President & Co-Founder)Previously a McKinsey Business Analyst and then Associate at Calera Capital.
Alex Mather
(CEO & Co-Founder)Vice President at startup building a community for athletes called Strava before founding The Athletic
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