Senior Product Manager, Sports App

Yahoo Sports is one of the internet’s leading destinations for comprehensive sports news and innovative fantasy games. We produce insightful content across multiple platforms and curate quality coverage from around the web to inform and entertain fans. We're an original fantasy sports pioneer, with a legacy of innovation that helps us continue to be a fantasy leader. And as one of the most-visited sports platforms on the internet, we're one of the best places for brands to reach fans.

Sr Product Manager, Sports App

A Little About Us

We are sports fans. We love our teams (and our fantasy teams). We love our data, our products, and our people. We are relentless about improving our products to make them the best place for die-hard sports fans to follow, analyze, and talk about the sports they love.

We are looking for someone who shares our values to join our team and make us even better.

We are driven to improve our industry-leading products, and to identify and solve real customer problems that will help fans embrace their passion for sports on a deeper level. This role provides an incredible opportunity to contribute to products that millions of sports fanatics love and use every day.

The right candidate will bring a mix of analytical skills, organizational excellence, and product intuition. We’re looking for someone who can define roadmaps, drive execution across cross-functional teams, and align stakeholders around impactful initiatives — while leveraging emerging technologies like AI to unlock new fan experiences and improve product development workflows.

The Role

As a Senior Product Manager working on the core Sports App, you will be responsible for defining roadmaps and execution plans across key projects, partnering with engineers and designers to deliver measurable results. You’ll scope and prioritize initiatives that make following games, teams, and leagues in the Yahoo Sports App delightful. You’ll ensure the product provides high quality coverage across sports and leagues through the entire sports calendar.

You’ll collaborate closely with other teams across the Sports organization, as well as partners in engineering, design, marketing, programming, and analytics. This role reports to the Sr Director of Product, Core Sports.

This role will focus on changing the way fans follow and engage with their games, teams, leagues, and players they care about. You’ll help elevate the core app experience by coordinating enhancements across multiple teams, integrating monetization strategies, and helping fans discover relevant and personalized content across news and notifications, video, scores, and more.

A Lot About You

Product Roadmapping & Execution

• Translates business goals and user needs into clear, milestone-driven roadmaps and requirements.
• Can effectively balance short-term delivery with long-term impact.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and high-quality execution.
• Anticipates risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs, and communicates them clearly.
• Uses data, experimentation, and feedback loops to measure success and guide iteration.

Customer Insights

• Demonstrated ability to identify and articulate customer problems and define opportunities.
• Leverages customer feedback, analytics, and market research to inform decisions.
• Defines measurable success metrics for projects and ensures they are tracked and monitored.
• Balances quantitative insights with strong product intuition to make decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI capabilities into day to day operations, product experiences, and development workflows.

Team Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment

• Excellent communicator, tailoring messaging for teams, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Builds trust through clear updates, consistent delivery, and well-reasoned decisions.
• Creates documentation and artifacts to keep stakeholders aligned on priorities and progress.
• Proactively resolves conflicts and ensures alignment across diverse teams.
• Motivates and aligns cross-functional partners around shared goals.

You Must Have

• 5+ years experience as a Product Manager delivering consumer-focused experiences across native apps & web.
• Experience developing and managing product roadmaps, with proven success in execution and delivery.
• Strong ability to align cross-functional teams and stakeholders around shared priorities.
• Comfort working with data, experimentation frameworks, and applying insights to product decisions.
• Interest and aptitude in applying AI to consumer product experiences.
• Strong sports knowledge across multiple sports.

Nice to Have(s)

• Experience working with large datasets of complex, real-time information.
• Familiarity with media or video streaming on apps and/or web.
• Background in customer-facing content-forward experiences in native apps.
• Experience integrating AI-driven features such as personalization, natural language experiences, or automated content generation.
• Exposure to monetization strategies and integrating them into app experiences.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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The compensation for this position ranges from $120,750.00 - $251,250.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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