Senior Product Manager, GameChanger
Video Platform
$160-180k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
Be an early applicant
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
GameChanger's mission is to help families elevate the next generation through sports.
Role
Who you are
- Background in video streaming, with a focus on user-generated content live streaming technologies
- Ability to partner with Engineering to evaluate and expand our current video ingestion pipeline
- Solid experience with video ingestion, live streaming, encoding and decoding, and other software engineering principals and architectures required for a resilient, scalable, and secure video cloud infrastructure (we use AWS)
- Experience leading teams with a focus on collaboration and achieving high-quality product goals
- 5+ years of experience in product management or product engineering, working with video or live streaming in mobile-first applications
- Demonstrated experience implementing large-scale projects and achieving positive user outcomes across multiple engineering teams and domains
- Experience communicating product updates, milestones, and progress to all kinds of internal and external partners
- Working knowledge of software development cycles including infrastructure, continuous integration, developer tooling, open source use, and documentation
- Experience with data-informed decision-making to lead the platform forward
What the job involves
- At GameChanger, we score and stream millions of youth sports games annually
- As the Senior Platform Product Manager on the Video team, you will work with a talented team of engineers to develop our video pipeline end to end to ensure we have a scalable and resilient platform to handle millions of annual streams
- You will need to have a firm grasp of video streaming, recording, and encoding concepts to help lead iterations of our current live and post-game video capabilities for our internal product teams
- You will work with your product management peers to guide user experiences that bring the magic of GameChanger to every team
- You will report to one of our Product Management Directors
- Lead the team through the designing, building, and supporting of our video capabilities, including third-party device support (such as GoPro and Mevo), mobile first-party live broadcasting/capture, ingest, transcode, storage, and playback
- Partner with engineering and our infrastructure teams to manage a resilient, scalable, and efficient video pipeline
- Collaborate with other feature teams to contribute to GC’s overall vision for video streaming technology, influence product decisions, and build video capabilities
- Analyze external and internal user and business need through user interviews, data analysis, and market research and improve the live and VOD streaming experiences based on findings
- Ensure that your team is prioritizing the most important and impactful work
- Launch fast and iterate often with a talented team of engineers
- Document and manage product KPIs to ensure they’re aligned and performing across teams
Our take
The competitive nature of sports has always been driven by scorekeeping, and nowadays results are often consumed online. However, for smaller teams it can be difficult to provide this information digitally, as they do not have dedicated web development staff.
GameChanger provides a scorekeeping and statistics platform for sports teams to engage with their fans, that allows viewers to track the progress of a game in real-time similar to with professional sports. The company also embeds a live-streaming service into the platform to facilitate remote viewing, helping to increase audience engagement.
Whilst some sports teams already stream events on platforms such as Twitch and Youtube, most do not have the technical resources to achieve this. GameChanger has recognized this gap in the market, providing a simple yet unified platform for sports scoreboards and streaming, providing a fair opportunity for any team to maximize their community engagement.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2014
$6.8m
SERIES B
Nov 2011
$1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Vacation - Take time off work and travel the world. Enjoy unlimited vacation time.
- Remote Work - GameChanger’s can work from anywhere. You’ll receive a tech budget to make sure you’re set up for success.
- Health Insurance - We’ll make sure you stay healthy. Health, dental, vision, and other perks like a pre-tax FSA - we've got you covered.
- 401K Plan - We’re always looking ahead and so should you. Did we mention that we match?
- Tech Budget - You receive a large tech budget every two years. It’s yours to keep.
- Continued Learning - Tuition reimbursement, an annual flexible learning budget, mentorship opportunities, and more.
- Parental Leave - Get the time off you need with extended parental leave for both parents.
- Wellness - Stay fit and healthy on us. We offer a Gympass membership.
- Other Perks - Monthly Snack Boxes, Dick's Sporting Goods employee discount, Demo Day, Hack Day, virtual and in person team social events
Company values
- Customer obsessed - We put our customers first, always asking, “Will this enhance their youth sports experience?”. We deeply understand our customers and work hard to anticipate their needs. We celebrate and support our customers’ contributions to their communities
- Team Players - We hold each other accountable to deliver our best effort. We are empathetic and supportive, providing a safe environment for risk taking. We listen actively, encourage debate, and commit to action. We do unglamorous work in service of the team
- Ambitious - We take on challenging initiatives designed to drive significant growth. We are mission-oriented, working with urgency to deliver value to our customers. We set a high bar, invest in development, and strive to be the best
- Empowered - We take the initiative to solve problems. We entrust decisions to those closest to the problem. We embrace individual responsibility and accountability
- Focused - We say “no” to valuable initiatives so we can concentrate resources on our most important work. We respect others’ time by limiting distractions, running efficient meetings and communicating concisely
Company HQ
East Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Sameer Ahuja
(President, not founder)SVP at DICK’S Sporting Goods, that owns GameChanger. Former Founder and CEO of Dera Capital Advisors, as well as former Co-founder and COO/CFO of the Sports Museum of America.
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