ABOUT YOUR ROLE

Sporting News is growing and is searching for a Product Manager to drive the day to day development and operations of both the website and its key strategic partnerships. In this role, you will work with globally distributed internal and external stakeholders to make Sporting News become the leading global digital sports destination with world-class product experiences for the modern sports fan.

This role will have exposure to all aspects of the business, from the tactical to the strategic. Your innate creativity combined with your product management experience and results orientation will enable the business to drive timely product and market decisions that will be crucial to achieving our goals. Over time you will set the bar for how we imagine, build, and deliver great products and define our product team as we grow.

If you are looking to make your mark on a global product with a team of talented, driven, and ambitious people, now’s the time to raise your hand! This permanent position will work in our Charlotte, NC office,

HERE’S A BREAKDOWN OF WHAT YOU’LL (PRIMARILY) DO

• Support the management of the Sporting News products and strategic relationships to ensure a world-class digital experience.
• Help to manage the product backlog based on customer needs, market trends, and business goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define success metrics, and validate product hypotheses.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and user stories, working closely with data scientists and engineers.
• Identify significant opportunities in what could be ambiguous areas and build consensus around roadmaps and how to evaluate success.
• Undertake User acceptance testing (UAT) across each cycle to ensure a smooth product rollout.
• Monitor and analyze product performance metrics, user feedback, and model performance to drive continuous improvement.
• Stay across advancements in techniques, tools, and technologies, and identify opportunities to integrate them into products.
• Display strong organizational and execution skills.

DO YOU HAVE THESE ESSENTIALS?

• Proven experience as a Product Manager (ideally 2 – 3 years), with applicable digital product experience such as Sports, Media, Gaming or Entertainment.
• Experience conducting user research and transforming the analysis into solutions and recommendations.
• Ability to analyze data and metrics, draw conclusions and turn these into product solutions.
• Adept at defining product capabilities and breaking these down into backlogs of well-formed user stories.
• Skilled at communicating to clients, stakeholders and end-users with varying levels of technical knowledge.
• Ability to negotiate competing priorities
• Strong attention to detail
• Skilled problem solver

NOT ESSENTIAL BUT GREAT IF YOU ALSO HAVE

• A passion for sports
• Experience of Content Management Systems (we work with Drupal)
• An understanding of UX in the context of web and app development
• An understanding of Ad technology, Eg. GAM, Amazon TAM
• Experience working within data protection regulations (e.g. GDPR) and related CMP tools.
• Experience of working with third-party data in order to enhance the product experience.
• Experience with gaming products.
• Experience of working within a globally distributed team.

BENEFITS INCLUDE

You’ll receive up to 15 days of paid annual leave, 10 paid sick days, and 10 paid holidays, affordable health benefits (dental and vision included), competitive parental leave, short and long-term disability paid by the company, basic life-term insurance and personal accident insurance paid by the company, 401(k) and flexible work environment. 

ABOUT SPORTING NEWS, THE COMPANY

The underlying ethos of Sporting News is positivity and passion for sports. To help drive those tenets, we have three core objectives:

1. Create the best media experience for sports fans. Wherever you are in the world, whatever device you choose, we want Sporting News to offer the best fan experience possible through the creation of quality, interesting content.
2. Develop a work experience that people want to be part of. We want to identify talented, motivated staff who work hard, enjoy their job, support their team… and have fun while doing it.
3. Build a fantastic, growing business. We want to deliver for our brand and our partners while achieving our commercial goals, ultimately using our scale for good.

At Sporting News, we celebrate the diversity of our employees and our leadership. Sporting News is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

ABOUT SPORTING NEWS, THE BRAND

One of the world’s most iconic sports brands, The Sporting News was founded in 1886 as a weekly U.S. newspaper. Later transitioning to a magazine, it became the dominant sports publication, acquiring nicknames like "The Nation's Oldest & Finest Sports Paper" and "The Bible of Baseball."

Sporting News is now a dynamic digital publisher offering a trusted perspective across multiple sports and topics all over the world. It features localized editions in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Australia, India, Japan, Spain, and Argentina, with more territories and languages across the world.

TIMELESS & CRAFTED. No publisher has the heritage of The Sporting News (TSN). Established in 1886, it became the essential source for baseball and boxing content.

IMAGINATIVE & SCALABLE. Fast forward to today, TSN now covers all major sports worldwide with 15 local editions, leveraging a global network that understands local market nuance.

RELIABLE & RELATABLE. With a historic, trusted brand and unprecedented local media knowledge, TSN will be the leading international sports portal for right holders, gaming partners, advertisers, broadcasters ... and most importantly, fans.

Acquired by an international investment group in 2021 with deep sports, media and gaming experience, TSN is poised to become the first truly global digital sports media platform business.