Principal Product Manager, Basketball Products

The Genius Sports Product Team is looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the basketball product suite within the Data & AI product team. The role works with leading global basketball leagues and federations, including the NBA, WNBA, NCAA and FIBA, to build, enhance and maintain products that capture, process and deliver basketball data and insights to teams, leagues, media and betting partners worldwide. The Principal Product Manager owns the full basketball product suite across the entire product lifecycle, from ideation and discovery through build, launch and ongoing growth.

• Understand customer needs across leagues, teams, media and betting partners
• Develop requirements and drive delivery of basketball events feeds, statistics feeds, Performance Studio, and Next Generation stats/visualisations, driving measurable improvement in the quality, timeliness and depth of basketball data and insights.
• Own the product lifecycle end-to-end for each product in the basketball portfolio, from ideation, discovery and validation through build, launch and post-launch growth and iteration.
• Define and evangelise a clear, prioritised product roadmap for basketball products and communicate it consistently to internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, data operations and business teams to ensure basketball product initiatives are delivered on time and on budget, and act as the source of truth for basketball product direction.
• Provide strategic direction on data-informed, long-term investment opportunities for the basketball portfolio, evaluating tradeoffs and prioritising in consultation with cross-divisional partners.
• Balance investment across the basketball 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 basketball products, build dashboards to measure performance, and make data-driven decisions using both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• 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.
• Stay current on basketball analytics trends, computer vision tracking technology and competitor offerings to keep the basketball product suite at the forefront of the industry and recognised as a differentiator for Genius Sports.
• Own a suite of basketball products spanning the full data and analytics value chain, including Basketball Events Feeds, Basketball Statistics Feeds, Performance Studio, and Next Generation Stats & Visualisations, ensuring they operate as a coherent
• Well-sequenced portfolio rather than disconnected efforts.

• 7-10 years of relevant product management experience.
• Strong basketball domain knowledge/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 basketball statistician, analyst, or a strong passion for basketball and basketball analytics.

• Office-first culture with hybrid working models that differ depending on role and location.

• Eligible to take part in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan.
• Competitive salary and range of benefits.
• Support for employee wellbeing and growth in skills, experience and career.

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