Lead Product Manager, Growth (Remote)

The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe.

Product plays a pivotal role at The Athletic, spearheading critical cross-functional initiatives and leading teams of engineers, designers, marketers, and analysts to execute seamlessly on behalf of the business and our users. As a Lead 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.

Your primary focus is to deliver impactful consumer-facing features, experiences and experiments across Web, iOS, and Android platforms that help deepen our readers engagement with The Athletic.

- Developing features that showcase the depth of our coverage and drive engagement with our content across articles, newsletters, scores and stats, highlights, podcasts, and more.

- Creating compelling user experiences that makes users more likely to engage with our content and develop loyalty to the brand over time.

- Developing a personalization approach so that all types of sports fans can find the experience and content that suits them (e.g. general sports fans should be served equally well to a die hard fan that wants deep reporting on a set number of teams).

- Understand sports fans' behaviors, needs, and motivations through both qualitative and quantitative insights.

- Partner with newsroom leaders to translate editorial strategy into product experiences.

- Work closely with engineers and designers to deliver high-quality features that drive our key metrics.

- Balance short-term wins with longer-term strategic initiatives.

- Make data-driven decisions that improve our audience engagement metrics.

- Define the strategy for your product area(s) to meet business objectives.

- Develop and manage a roadmap that balances immediate user needs with longer-term strategic goals in the service of a cohesive experience across all touchpoints in the fan’s journey.

- Articulate the "why" behind product strategy to gain and maintain alignment across stakeholders.

- Champion features that drive our north star metrics.

- Build and lead cross-functional teams that ship with quality and velocity.

- Create a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.

- Transform user feedback and data insights into product enhancements.

- Foster a highly collaborative cross-functional environment focused on shared metrics and objectives.

- Help establish best practices for product development and experimentation.

- Navigate complex stakeholder environments with diplomacy and clarity of purpose.

- Invest smartly in platforms that will allow us to experiment at scale - thinking through complex systems and building products that unlock outsize impact on the business.

- 4+ years of highly relevant product management experience at a fast-growing consumer company or demonstrated success in a similar role.

- Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate business goals into product features.

- Expertise in consumer digital products.

- A bias toward action and the ability to rally teams to deliver results - you need to get things done.

- Excellence with data - analyzing data, deriving insights, and making data-driven decisions.

- Experience with A/B testing as a tool to rigorously deliver impact.

- Excellent collaboration skills and ability to influence a team and drive alignment with stakeholders.

- Empathy for users that translates into intuitive, delightful experiences.

- Eagerness to try new things and learn - and a willingness to fail.