FanDuel · 3 days ago
Product Director, Trading
New York City
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$159K/yr - $219K/yr
9+ years expFanDuel is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, and they are seeking an experienced and visionary Product Director to lead their Trading Product team. The role involves setting the strategic vision for the Trading Product team, overseeing product strategy and development, and ensuring alignment across various stakeholders to drive successful product outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Oversees product strategy, vision, objectives, and delivery for an entire suite of trading products
Works with PMs and POs to create and drive roadmaps aligned to overall strategy
Evangelize product suite, vision and roadmap, securing buy-in and alignment from key stakeholders across business, partnering with commercial and engineering leaders on objectives and key results
Works across business and technology to secure alignment on resourcing required to achieve delivery of vision and key objectives
Actively engages with peers on other products to understand their strategies, identifying opportunities for collaboration and intersection points between products
Defines and articulates success criteria for product suite, showing how products drive customer value and trading outcomes
Manages and reports on product suite performance at executive level
Ensures product requirements, delivery approach, and architectural decisions within the domain are aligned with overall FanDuel Group goals and objectives
Ensures teams plan and define work effectively, minimizing reactivity and driving toward key outcomes
Acts as thought leader for trading product area, driving a culture of innovation and experimentation
Drives quality of output across multiple teams through clear roadmaps and best practices for product delivery
Removes roadblocks to delivery, resolving dependencies and driving stakeholder decision-making
Assists teams where needed in developing creative solutions to achieve goals
Motivates teams to hit deadlines and ensures delays and mitigation strategies are surfaced immediately
Advocates for and supports direct reports as they communicate across the organization, providing feedback on key communications
Collaborates, leads, and influences within the vertical, working with directors of trading, quants, product, tech, commercial et al, and regularly shaping their decisions, making senior stakeholders’ true partners in outcomes
Leads collaboration across product and other verticals to ensure alignment on dependencies and build effective ways of working with business and technical counterparts on end-to-end delivery
Quickly builds relationships with teams outside direct oversight to understand and address issues
Partners effectively with other departments (e.g. marketing, customer service, product ops) to ensure product feature needs are prioritized and developed by the right cross-functional teams
Provides constructive feedback and deeper insights on analyses and recommendations by senior PMS, PMs and POs within and outside the vertical
Comfortable presenting externally at any level
Capable of planning and running larger product events
Demonstrates deep understanding of the trading domain, with empathy for both internal users (Traders) and external customers
Translates these needs into product direction that empowers Traders to deliver outstanding outcomes, while ensuring products themselves drive superior customer experiences
Creates and drives a culture of customer centricity across the product area, influencing consumer-centered thinking beyond the direct remit
Defines research needs based on strategic opportunities and drives decision-making when information is limited
Engages with other product teams to understand past, ongoing, and planned research, providing feedback and identifying synergies
Provides constructive feedback and identifies deeper insights on research plans from PMs within the vertical
Works with senior leaders to create and evangelize clear vision and strategy, ensuring alignment among teams and driving the organization toward goals
Leads a multi-tiered organization, line managing up to Lead PM and PO level, creating goals and development plans, and coaching on product practices across the lifecycle
Independently leads team-building activities and demonstrates strong commitment to people management as a discipline
Provides mentoring and feedback outside of direct line management
Actively participates in recruiting and interviewing, taking direct responsibility for hiring into the team
Influences roadmaps beyond the specific vertical
Highly effective communicator, widely respected across the organization, building strong followership within and beyond the vertical
Exemplifies the full set of company values
Sits on the Trading Product leadership team, helping to build and drive a strong product culture that values customer-focused product development and learning
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree required
9+ years' experience in a combination of trading or product management
Experience managing a team of Product Managers, Product Owners or similar roles
Proven track record of delivering successful and innovative products
Ability to handle multiple simultaneous projects while effectively balancing scope, resourcing, time, and quality
A strong sense of ownership and accountability for goals and deliverables
Demonstrated success cross-functionally influencing teams without formal authority
Strong quantitative skills
Excellent critical thinking skills
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Preferred
Previous experience with high-volume B2C ecommerce is preferred
Previous experience in betting/gaming industry is preferred
Benefits
Medical, vision, and dental insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
A 401(k) matching program
Paid personal time off
14 paid company holidays
Paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws
Company
FanDuel
FanDuel is a gaming company that offers sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, horse racing, and online casino games.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$416.2MKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsShamrock Capital AdvisorsComcast Ventures
2020-12-03Acquired
2017-09-12Series E
2016-09-14Convertible Note· $55M
Leadership Team
Josh Ives
SVP Customer Experience Operations
Caralyn Cooley
Chief People Officer
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