Principal Product Manager, American Football Products

This role leads the American Football product suite within the Data & AI product team, working with leading football leagues and federations such as the NFL, NCAA, and others. The purpose is to build, enhance, and maintain products that capture, process, and deliver football data and insights to teams, leagues, media, and betting partners around the world. The role owns the full football product suite — including AI-driven/automated eventing, Performance Studio enhancements, Next Generation Stats & insights, and rich data graphics/visualisations — across the entire product lifecycle from ideation and discovery through build, launch, and ongoing growth and improvement.

• Own and grow the American Football product suite, including real-time and post-game events feeds used by leagues, broadcasters, and downstream partners, core and advanced statistics feeds that power team, player, and league-level analysis, continual improvements to Performance Studio
• Including new metrics, workflows, and user experience improvements, and next-generation football statistics, tracking-derived metrics, and data visualisations that differentiate Genius Sports in the market, ensuring it operates as a coherent, well-sequenced portfolio.
• Understand customer needs across leagues, teams, media, and betting partners, and develop requirements and drive delivery of football events feeds, statistics feeds, Performance Studio, and Next Generation stats/visualisations.
• Define and evangelise a clear, prioritised product roadmap for football products, communicate it consistently to internal and external stakeholders, and act as the source of truth for football product direction.
• Own the product lifecycle end-to-end for each product in the football portfolio, from ideation, discovery, and validation through build, launch, and post-launch growth and iteration.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, data operations, and business teams to ensure football product initiatives are delivered on time and on budget, and that cross-functional teams trust the roadmap.
• Provide strategic direction on data-informed, long-term investment opportunities for the football portfolio, evaluating tradeoffs and prioritising in consultation with cross-divisional partners.
• Balance investment across the football product portfolio across three horizons: Now/Horizon 1 (0-12 months), Next/Horizon 2 (12-36 months), and Future/Horizon 3 (36+ months), ensuring a healthy mix of incremental improvement and longer-term innovation.
• Define KPIs that drive business results for football products, build dashboards to measure performance, and make data-driven decisions using qualitative and quantitative analysis, ensuring product decisions are grounded in customer needs and data to drive Genius revenue streams.
• Partner with commercial, marketing, and operations teams to drive efficient, effective go-to-market motions and continuously gather feedback from leagues, teams, and media/betting partners and translate it into product requirements, delivering measurable improvement in the quality, timeliness
• And depth of football data and insights.
• Stay current on football analytics trends, computer vision tracking technology, and competitor offerings to keep the football product suite at the forefront of the industry and recognised as a differentiator.

• 7-10 years of relevant product management experience.
• Strong American Football domain knowledge and expertise.
• Product management experience building B2B SaaS or other relevant data feeds/applications, including understanding functional requirements and building for scale.
• Strong grasp of product lifecycle mechanics: discovery, analysis, defining and driving OKRs, ideation, prioritisation, and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Experience owning multiple related products or a product portfolio simultaneously, balancing competing priorities across a suite of offerings.
• Extensive background collaborating with UX design partners to build intuitive, user-first experiences.
• Strong background in BI and/or analytics.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting to executive leadership, participating in the sales cycle, and handling sensitive, critical issues.
• Experience working in and delivering products or services in an agile/lean environment, including backlog management (user stories, epics, and bugs).
• Proficiency in gathering and transforming product requirements into a practical, prioritised product roadmap.
• Degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Ability to move fluidly between deep technical/data conversations and strategic, executive-level discussions.

• Experience working on data-oriented or sports statistics products.
• Prior experience as a football statistician, analyst, or a strong passion for football and football analytics.

• Office-first culture with opportunities to collaborate, connect, and learn together.
• Hybrid working models differ depending on role and location.

• Eligible to take part in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan.
• Range of benefits.
• Commitment to supporting employee wellbeing and helping employees grow their skills, experience, and career.