Senior Project Manager, Sleeper
$135-175k
+ Equity
Fantasy sports app
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Fantasy sports app
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$135-175k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect people over sports.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of project, program, or delivery management experience, with a track record of running multiple complex programs simultaneously at fast-moving consumer tech, gaming, or fintech companies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills—you can translate between engineers, designers, and business stakeholders without losing nuance
- Highly organized with a track record of running multiple concurrent projects without dropping the ball
- Comfortable working with engineers—you can earn their respect, push back when scope or timelines feel off, and stay collaborative even under pressure
- Technically fluent enough to read a PRD, ask the right questions about technical tradeoffs, and use tools like Claude Code or Codex day-to-day
- You actively look for ways to automate the boring parts of your job and have an opinion on how AI tools make project management more leveraged
- Bonus: Passion for sports, gaming, or building consumer products at scale
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to be the connective tissue across engineering, design, and growth as we scale the platform behind tens of millions of passionate sports fans
- This is Sleeper’s first dedicated project management hire. You’ll hold the full context of every project you run, drive accountability against deadlines, and keep cross-functional work moving
- You’ll be the person who makes sure design has the specs, engineering has what they need to ship, and growth knows what’s launching and when
- You’ll work closely with leadership across the company and have the latitude to shape how project management functions at Sleeper from the ground up
- Own end-to-end execution across multiple concurrent projects—partnering with engineering, design, and growth from kickoff through launch
- Hold the full context of every project you run, tracking scope, dependencies, blockers, and timelines across teams
- Lead working sessions and standups, drive accountability against deadlines, and surface risk early through clear written communication
- Contribute to specs and project documentation alongside engineering and design, ensuring scope is well-defined and decisions are recorded
- Coordinate cross-functional rollouts so growth, design, and engineering are aligned on what’s shipping and when
- Build leverage through AI tooling—automate the routine parts of your workflow so you can scale your impact
Our take
The popularity of being able to create fantasy teams and enjoy watching sports virtually has taken socialising around sports to a virtual level. In fact, the fantasy sports market size is expected to reach $48.6 billion by 2027. Sleeper was initially an app on which users discussed fantasy sports, but in 2017, it began hosting free fantasy football leagues, competing with sites like Yahoo. Integrating social media and sports, the company is now known to be one of the best DFS communities to hang out on.
Through substantial funding, Sleeper is expanding the game offerings on its platform and in 2022, release a new feature called Wallet that enables users to sync their preferred payment methods to the platform.
There has been consistent growth for the platform since its founding and it has successfully attracted a loyal user base.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$40m
SERIES C
May 2020
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $67.3m
Company benefits
- 401k and health insurance
- Unlimited Vacations
- Regular virtual game-time with the team with company-sponsored snacks
- Company-sponsored fantasy leagues with real prizes
- Team outing every quarter and company retreat once a year
Company HQ
Paradise, NV
Leadership
Nan Wang
(Co-Founder & CEO)After studying went on to become a Senior Analyst at Fidelity Investments, Representative for China Investment Corporation and Private Equity Investor at Neuberger Berman.
Henry Leung
(Co-Founder)Worked as an Android Developer at Vevo, Senior iOS Developer at Dwell Media and Lead Mobile Engineer at Whil Concepts.
Ken Wang
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a NET Web Engineer at Genex/O’Grady Meyers, Senior C# Engineer at Decore-ative Specialties and UI Engineering Tech Lead (TV/Console Platform) at Vevo.
Weixi Yen
(Co-Founder)Worked as a Software Engineer at Kabam and then went on to work through several roles at Storm8, most recently as an Engineering Manager.
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