Principal Product Manager — Growth, Social & Community

The role

You will build the social and community layer of a connected ecosystem for sports fans. You will own the growth thesis, roadmap, mechanics, and gamification layer to drive acquisition and retention.

What you will do

• Own the growth thesis and the roadmap
• Build acquisition through invite, referral and friend discovery built into the product
• Connect the ecosystem through identity and the social graph
• Design for moments and shared experience
• Build community to keep people around
• Own the gamification layer
• Prove results with data

Required qualifications

• Eight or more years in product
• Real time on growth and real time on social, community or network products at consumer scale
• Experience with social products where value came from other users
• Experience carrying a growth number and defending a roadmap to it
• Experience with both ends of the funnel, acquisition and retention
• Ability to write narratives to align a company
• Ability to prototype and get products in front of users quickly
• Ability to use consumer social products and understand fan behavior
• Ability to decide at 80%, write down why, and change mind based on data
• Ability to write queries, design tests, and debate incrementality with data scientists
• Experience dealing with user-generated content moderation, abuse, and bad actors

Nice to have

• A social product you shipped that outlived the team that built it
• A graph you grew from nothing with a clear story about solving cold start
• Users you moved between products or business units at scale
• Something you built that made people feel recognized
• Something you killed because the data said to
• Three social products you admire with analysis of why loops work and break
• Work across P&Ls where you owned the outcome but not the roadmap
• Something public such as a product, repo, writing, or a community you started and grew
• Experience shipping social or UGC inside a regulated or high-scrutiny environment

Benefits

• Full-time employment

About the company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company offers products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.