Hudl · 1 week ago
Sr. Product Manager (Football)
Lincoln, NE
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$107K/yr - $179K/yr
5+ years expHudl is a company that builds great teams and supports the lifelong impact sports can have. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager for football who will be accountable for the end-to-end success of large-scale initiatives, defining strategic vision and translating it into market impact.
SoftwareSportsVideo
Responsibilities
Set the vision and strategy. You’ll define the outcomes and prioritization for football and evangelize the desired customer and business outcomes to your squad, release team, and the company
Lead discovery and delivery. You’ll fill the Product Owner role on a cross-functional squad, ensuring the Product Backlog is transparent and prioritized, and you will lead discovery to reduce key value, viability, usability, and feasibility risks before development
Drive product viability. You’ll ensure solutions are both valuable to customers and viable within business constraints, contributing a solid knowledge of constraints from marketing, sales, finance, legal, and privacy
Champion the user. You’ll live on the ground floor by regularly interacting with customers to gain empathy and understanding, synthesizing quantitative and qualitative information to drive product changes and improvements
Influence the roadmap. You’ll contribute to the long-term football strategy and roadmap for your product team, using data and logic to influence your teammates, colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives
Lead cross-functional efforts. You’ll collaborate closely with a cross-department release team to ensure the squad’s solutions are successfully delivered to the market
Qualification
Required
Experienced in product management. You have 5–8 years of experience as a Product Manager, overseeing a significant scope, a more complex product, or a larger market
An American football expert. You are an acknowledged expert on your target users and customers, understanding the competitive football landscape and relevant industry trends to inform your decisions. You can talk to a high school or college football coach and keep up when the topic of a 2 high safety defense comes up
SaaS experience. You're worked in high-growth software-as-a-service companies that serve clients
Process proficient. You have a strong understanding of product discovery techniques, knowing how to tackle and reduce product risks upfront, and you execute your Product Owner responsibilities effectively for product delivery and optimization
A collaborative leader. You work effectively with your squad and cross-functional partners, leveraging your team's skills. You effectively influence and inspire people without direct management, and others look to you for leadership, especially in stressful situations
Preferred
Sports technology experience. You've spent time building data analysis, video, and/or recruiting platforms for clients in team sports. Bonus points if you have created products that are used by coaches, athletes, or fans
Trend awareness. You pay attention to what's happening in the sports technology industry. You're able to adapt to market/tech trends when needed, and can guide your teams to do the same
Business and product operational knowledge. You understand the various dimensions of the company's business, from finance to sales, and you are an acknowledged expert on how your product works, enabling you to effectively demo, train, and handle live customer support inquiries
Strategic foresight. You track industry trends and the competitive landscape as they pertain to your product, and you can provide forecasts and projections as required by your business unit's General Manager
Benefits
Flexible vacation time
Company-wide holidays and timeout (meeting-free) days
Remote work options
Employee Assistance Program
Employee resource groups
Fitness partner Peerfit
Multiple plans to pick from to ensure you’ll have the coverage you (and your dependents) want, including vision, dental, fertility healthcare and family forming benefits
401(K) match up to 4% of your own contribution
Company
Hudl
Hudl is a software platform that provides video analysis and coaching tools for sports teams.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$228.85MKey Investors
Bain Capital Tech OpportunitiesAccel
2020-05-21Series F· $120M
2018-12-07Convertible Note
2017-07-06Series D· $30M
Leadership Team
David Graff
CEO
Brian Kaiser
CTO at Hudl
Recent News
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