Product Director

Role Description

We are looking for a Product Director to join the Fanatics Betting & Gaming Sportsbook team. This is a senior leadership role where Product, Design, and Engineering work closely together to deliver exceptional customer experiences. As part of one of the fastest-growing sportsbooks in the industry, you will play a critical role in shaping and evolving one of the most important customer journeys within our platform.

• Own the end-to-end strategy, vision, and execution for a critical, high-frequency area of the sportsbook experience.
• Define how customers discover, engage with, and transact through our product—ensuring every interaction is intuitive, reliable, scalable, and commercially impactful.
• Build and lead a high-performing product organization, managing, coaching, and developing Product Managers.
• Create clear growth opportunities for both managers and individual contributors.
• Foster a culture of accountability, customer obsession, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with leaders across Engineering, Design, Data, Trading, Commercial, Marketing, CRM, and Operations.
• Evolve key customer journeys, solve complex business problems, and deliver measurable outcomes through insight, experimentation, and exceptional product judgment.

Qualifications

• 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 genuine passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams.
• Experience building healthy product organizations by raising product craft, improving ways of working, and creating an environment where great product managers can thrive.
• 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 who can navigate complexity and make clear, high-quality 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 when needed.
• 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.

Requirements

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers, creating an environment where individuals are challenged, supported, and able to grow into the next stage of their careers.
• Prepare and deliver clear, structured executive presentations that communicate strategy, roadmap priorities, performance insights, and key trade-offs through compelling, data-driven narratives.
• Establish clear customer and business outcomes for your teams and create accountability through measurable results.
• Embed customer insight, experimentation, and analytics into product decisions, continually raising the bar for product craft across your organization.
• Partner closely with Engineering leadership to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of high-traffic transactional systems.
• Work across Data, CRM, Commercial, Platform, Trading, and Operations teams to deliver cross-functional initiatives and align investments with enterprise priorities.
• Clearly communicate strategy, priorities, trade-offs, and risk to senior leadership, influencing decisions through structured thinking and sound product judgment.
• Build organizational capability through effective delegation, coaching, succession planning, and developing future product leaders.
• Proactively manage dependencies and sequencing across complex systems, ensuring alignment without compromising pace or delivery.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $163,000 — $235,000 USD.
• Full-time employment benefits.
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