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About the Role
Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Product Director to lead strategy, vision, and execution for a critical customer journey within their sportsbook platform. This senior leadership role involves close collaboration between Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver exceptional customer experiences and build a high-performing product organization.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the strategy for a critical area of the sportsbook, ensuring exceptional customer value and business impact.
- Partner with Product and Commercial leadership to translate long-term business strategy into a compelling product vision and roadmap.
- Own and evolve a multi-year product strategy, balancing innovation, optimization, scalability, operational excellence, and commercial impact.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers, fostering growth and support.
- Build a high-performing product organization by raising product thinking quality, encouraging ownership, and creating a culture of continuous learning and accountability.
- Prepare and deliver executive presentations on strategy, roadmap priorities, performance insights, and trade-offs.
- Lead multiple product teams, providing strategic direction, prioritization, and coaching.
- Establish clear customer and business outcomes for teams and create accountability through measurable results.
- Embed customer insight, experimentation, and analytics into product decisions.
- Partner closely with Engineering leadership to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of high-traffic systems.
- Work across Data, CRM, Commercial, Platform, Trading, and Operations teams to deliver cross-functional initiatives.
- Communicate strategy, priorities, trade-offs, and risk to senior leadership.
- Build organizational capability through delegation, coaching, succession planning, and developing future product leaders.
- Manage dependencies and sequencing across complex systems, ensuring alignment without compromising pace or delivery.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Product Management, ideally leading complex, high-scale, customer-facing digital products.
- Proven experience leading multiple Product Managers or Product Leaders, with a passion for coaching and developing teams.
- Experience building healthy product organizations by raising product craft, improving ways of working, and creating a thriving environment for product managers.
- Demonstrated ownership of high-frequency, transactional customer experiences with measurable commercial impact.
- Strong commercial acumen and expertise in data-driven product development, experimentation, and customer insight.
- A structured, strategic thinker capable of navigating complexity and making clear trade-off decisions.
- Outstanding executive communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional leaders.
- Experience attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional product talent.
- Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on involvement.
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with significant scale and performance requirements.
- Experience in sports betting, gaming, fintech, ecommerce, or similarly complex digital platforms is preferred.
Skills
- Product Management
- Product Strategy
- Roadmap Development
- Team Leadership
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Product Craft
- Data-Driven Product Development
- Experimentation
- Customer Insight
- Strategic Thinking
- Executive Communication
- Storytelling
- Stakeholder Influence
- Cross-functional Alignment
- Organizational Capability Building
- Delegation
- Succession Planning
- Dependency Management
- Commercial Acumen
Experience Level
- Senior Leadership
- 10+ years of experience in Product Management
Salary/Compensations
- $163,000—$235,000 USD
Benefits
- Full-time employment
- Bonus
- Additional benefits available at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
About the Company
- Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform, igniting the passions of global sports fans and maximizing presence for hundreds of sports partners globally through Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.
- Fanatics Betting & Gaming is building one of the most ambitious and customer-focused sportsbooks in the industry, combining product excellence, sports expertise, and cutting-edge technology to create seamless, high-performance betting experiences at scale.
- The company has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and over 2,000 retail locations including Lids stores.
- Fanatics has over 22,000 employees committed to enhancing the fan experience globally.