About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
About The Role
Product plays a pivotal role at The Athletic, spearheading critical cross-functional initiatives and leading teams of engineers, designers, marketers, data scientists, and analysts to execute seamlessly on behalf of the business and our users. As a Staff Product Manager, you will lend your domain and functional expertise to a wide range of business and Product areas that collectively require multidisciplinary skills. You will tackle highly complex issues that require cross-functional strategic, operational, and technical alignment. This is an advanced individual contributor role, and you will be critical to the success of the Product organization.
This role is 100% remote for candidates currently residing in either the United States or Canada.
Focus of The Role
We have an exciting and ambitious strategy to attain tremendous growth in the next three years. To achieve this vision, we must dramatically improve - and in some cases overhaul - our technical infrastructure and capabilities. We have an initial engineering and data strategy to achieve this, but it requires an exceptional Technical Product leader to drive the product strategy, roadmap, and execution of this work. You will be the critical product linchpin to the success of our technical strategy, and will partner with senior leaders across the technology organization to achieve our goals. This work spans Engineering and Data strategy and capabilities, inclusive of our publishing and content systems, games and sports data, personalization systems, and Generative AI - and covers our web, iOS, and Android platforms.
This is a Technical Product Manager role, and requires exceptionally strong technical skills in order to best partner with Engineering and Data leadership, including two-way communication and translation of Business and Product strategy and impact into and out of the technical work.
Responsibilities
- Own a Cohesive Strategy and Roadmap Across a Portfolio of Product Areas
- Drive Impact Across Your Teams
- Be a Leader of Your Domain and the Product Org at Large
- Improve Organizational Operations
Own a Cohesive Strategy and Roadmap Across a Portfolio of Product Areas:
- Independently define strategy for horizontal systems or experiences spanning multiple product areas.
- Look 12–24 months ahead, planning across seasons and multi-year initiatives.
- Articulate the "why" behind product strategy to gain and maintain alignment across stakeholders.
- Prioritize platform-level solutions based on multi-team ROI.
- Prioritize roadmap based on downstream impact across teams, not just local outcomes.
- Inform the overall direction of our product beyond immediate ownership.
