About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company. Our partner is looking for a Senior Director, Product based in United States. This is a senior product leadership opportunity at the intersection of sports technology, SaaS, proprietary data, and artificial intelligence.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap across Coaching, Player Personnel, Recruiting, and Intelligence.
- Develop a differentiated, multi-sport AI strategy focused on high-value workflows such as opponent scouting, self-scouting, talent evaluation, recruiting, free agency, transfer portal activity, and contract or scholarship decision-making.
- Translate the AI strategy into a multi-quarter product roadmap.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers and product leaders.
- Serve as the senior external representative for the product portfolio in customer discussions, league partnerships, enterprise RFPs, and industry forums.
- Maintain deep relationships with coaches, front-office executives, GMs, scouting directors, personnel leaders, and league operators.
- Partner with engineering, design, data science, product marketing, GTM, and finance teams.
- Collaborate with proprietary data and technology teams to turn unique datasets into AI-powered products and agents.
- Identify common workflows across sports while respecting differences between markets.
- Drive integration and strategic alignment across acquired and organically developed product portfolios.
- Own revenue and P&L accountability for the product category.
- Provide clear product leadership through periods of organizational growth, transformation, and ambiguity.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in product management or software development within B2B SaaS, sports technology, vertical AI, or comparable industry.
- Demonstrated success managing and evolving a multi-product portfolio.
- Proven experience leading product managers and product leaders in complex, multi-market environments.
- Alternatively, experience as a General Manager or business-unit leader with ownership of strategy, roadmap, go-to-market, and P&L.
- Deep knowledge of professional and/or collegiate sports.
- Strong sports fluency, with credibility to engage directly with senior sports executives.
- Demonstrated experience developing and shipping AI-native products.
- Understanding of AI technology tradeoffs.
- Experience working with data science and engineering teams.
- Experience integrating or rationalizing acquired product portfolios is highly desirable.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strategic and commercially minded.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Strong customer orientation.
- Experience directly selling or delivering technology products to professional sports organizations is a strong advantage.
- Subject matter expertise in football or basketball is a plus.
Conditions
- This position is not eligible for employer sponsorship at this time.