About the Role
Lead product strategy, development, and execution for NCAA Digital products and platforms, driving innovative fan experiences for millions of college sports fans. Shape and deliver best-in-class experiences across the fan journey, focusing on engagement, content discovery, live event consumption, and platform growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead platform-specific prioritization and execution across connected TV ecosystems.
- Operate products during key live events, ensuring a high-quality fan experience.
- Create and communicate product plans, roadmap updates, feature requirements, launch readiness materials, and performance recaps.
- Mentor and support junior product managers and contribute to product team best practices.
- Own and drive product strategy for assigned product areas and platform experiences.
- Translate fan needs, business priorities, research insights, analytics, and market trends into product vision, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and leadership teams to prioritize opportunities and align product investments.
- Evaluate platform opportunities, emerging device trends, and evolving viewer behaviors.
- Monitor industry trends and maintain deep knowledge of the sports, streaming, media, and mobile technology landscape.
- Use qualitative and quantitative data to identify opportunities, inform prioritization, validate hypotheses, and measure impact.
- Develop product recommendations and business cases that improve fan engagement, retention, consumption, and overall product performance.
- Lead relationships with internal development teams and third-party partners.
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from concept through launch, optimization, and ongoing iteration.
- Create clear product artifacts including product briefs, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, test plans, launch documentation, and operational readiness plans.
- Partner closely with Engineering and QA teams to ensure high-quality product delivery and consistent release cadence.
- Drive prioritization and decision-making across competing initiatives.
- Analyze product performance and fan behavior to continuously optimize experiences and inform future roadmap decisions.
- Proactively identify opportunities for operational and product improvements.
- Serve as a key product partner and primary point of contact for assigned product areas.
- Lead product reviews, roadmap discussions, launch planning, and post-event recaps.
- Build strong collaborative relationships across Product, Engineering, Design, Editorial, Operations, Research, Ad Sales, Marketing, and partner organizations.
- Communicate product strategy, priorities, risks, timelines, and results clearly and effectively.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5+ years of professional experience in product management, digital media, streaming, sports, or related technology fields.
- Experience owning digital products or platform features throughout the full product lifecycle from strategy and ideation through launch and optimization across mobile, connected TV, and/or digital platforms.
- Experience working with streaming/video experiences.
- Experience working on connected TV platforms (Roku, Fire TV, Android TV, gaming consoles, smart TVs, etc.) preferred but not required.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to drive product decisions.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Research, Operations, and business stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience creating product briefs, requirements, presentations, and executive updates.
- Experience operating in fast-paced live event or high-traffic digital environments preferred.
- Proficient with product and project management tools including JIRA, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, and analytics platforms.
- Passion for the latest emerging technologies, including AI preferred but not required.
Skills
- Product Strategy
- Product Development
- Product Execution
- Connected TV
- Fan Experience
- Product Management
- Digital Media
- Streaming
- Sports
- Mobile Platforms
- Qualitative Data Analysis
- Quantitative Data Analysis
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Communication
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Analytics Platforms
- AI
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Thoughtfully curated benefits
About the Company
- Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is a premier global media and entertainment company.
- WBD offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming.
- The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
- At HBO Max, storytelling takes center stage.
- HBO Max is one of the world’s most iconic entertainment brands — home to bold originals and unforgettable characters.
- HBO Max delivers boundary-pushing stories across genres and platforms, connecting millions of viewers across 90 countries globally.
- HBO Max is home to the most talked about shows and movies, granting audiences access to the worlds of HBO, Harry Potter, DC, Warner Bros., ID, Adult Swim, A24, and more.
Equal Opportunity
- Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.
- Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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