Principal Product Manager, Data Org - #16068

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores. 

As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.  

This Principal Product Manager works cross-functionally with strategist, business stakeholders, software development, design and technology teams to develop the vision, strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for the enterprise loyalty and offer products supporting multiple Fanatics businesses. These products will acquire new users, improve retention and help users move across Fanatics businesses which will ultimately drive revenue for Fanatics and create a first class customer experience. This role is Responsible for prioritizing feature development and establishing development timelines and deadlines.

Work with business stakeholders to define and develop the product vision, roadmap and business requirements

Set prioritization of feature development and timelines.

Partner with business management, and design teams to write/document user stories, product requirements, and acceptance criteria

Evangelizes and represents product domain insights to Fanatics leadership, executives and external partners

5+ years of product management experience. A plus with a concentration in loyalty and experiential marketing for companies with an array of product offerings

Ability to build strong working relationships with stakeholders,  peers, managers. 

Leads product domain strategy and execution

Excellent quantitative and analytical skills, superior reasoning skills, proven track record of data driven decision making.

Entrepreneurial with a “roll up your sleeves” attitude; comfortable with ambiguity

Exceptional communication skills; strong ability to distill complexity into crisp, easily comprehensible and compelling messaging; capacity for storytelling

Be skilled at writing effective requirements in the form of concise stories, with success criteria and the rationale behind a given feature request

Identifies and removes team obstacles including clarifying ambiguous challenges.

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Having business acumen, specifically an MBA is a plus.

·Your career growth, your ideas, your work-life balance, and your well-being.

·Diversity and Inclusion

·Our Company Culture and Values

·Providing outstanding Company Perks and Benefits

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports ecosystem.

The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, through Topps as a cornerstone of the business, building a new model for the collectibles and trading cards hobby with top leagues and players association partners; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.

As a market leader with more than 9,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support.  We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.

Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.

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