Senior Product Manager, Data
DraftKings is a leading sports entertainment brand that creates the most exciting digital sports competitions and experiences on the planet. Our goal is to transform the way fans experience sports. Our mission is to make sports better – and make better sports fans – by bringing them closer to the games they love. We are the signature tech startup of our generation in Boston.
As the Product Manager of Data, you will build and define the product roadmap for the data teams that drive data across the organization. This person is comfortable working across a wide range of stakeholders with the ability to translate business asks into technical road map that will deliver the requisite value. This person will use a combination of data analysis, stakeholder inputs, and industry instinct to identify the highest value priorities for the organization. They have a technical acumen that allows for a thorough understanding of the fundamental technologies behind the business intelligence, data engineering and data science functions. They will work cross functionally alongside technology, production and other stakeholders to deliver sustained excellence and reliability within our analytics infrastructure and management platform. They will also closely monitor the KPIs of their products, and consistently optimize over time.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the entire product development cycle from strategic planning to launch and post-launch optimization.
- Work with stakeholders to understand data needs and leverage them to drive the long-term vision for the analytics infrastructure and management platform.
- Continuously maintain a product roadmap for a full stack team of developers & production team members.
- Manage several product managers who are part of the Data Platform organization.
- Identify, analyze and prioritize new feature requests.
- Create business cases to support prioritization decisions.
- Work closely with engineering, production, and other stakeholders to break down high level projects into product specification documents with supporting user stories and high-level acceptance criteria.
- Working closely with engineering to continuously represent the voice of your key stakeholders during the design/development process.
- Facilitate alignment among executives and other stakeholders as needed.
- Collaborate with Production and Development teams to drive a completed final product.
- Effectively balance the often competing demands of innovation, quality, operational improvements, and speed to market.
- Measure the performance of each feature launched, and help set KPI metrics for the teams.
- Define annual OKRs and multi-year product vision for elements of product ownerships.
- Establish domain expertise on the latest innovations in the space.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional experience.
- 4+ years of relevant product management experience.
- 2+ years managing a major business platform (data, CRM, etc.)
- Comfort collaborating across multiple departments, including Technology, UX, Marketing, and Finance.
- Strong comprehension of data engineering and/or data science – and the tools required to execute those responsibilities well.
- Proficient with data warehouse theory and technology.
- Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server.
- Familiarity with cloud technology as it relates to data engineering and analytics.
- Comfortable with using pivot tables and Tableau (or similar tool) to create a report or analysis.
- Experience with agile software development methodology and working with engineering and data teams on technical projects.
- Proven track record of driving cross functional projects from inception to completion.
- Demonstrated knowledge of both business and technology.
- Extremely rapid learning curve, and ability to quickly create value in almost any situation.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams.
- Bachelor’s degree or above (technical major preferred)
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with advanced analytics scoring and models.
- Experience with large, complex data-centric projects.
- Professional experience managing an internal service or product for a cross-functional group.
- Strong, proactive communicator who can use in-person and digital tools to complete product feedback loops.
- Experience with program or project management.