FOX Sports is the global innovator in sports production and we are looking to maintain our creative excellence in the digital world with the consumer products that we create for our customers.
FOX Cincinnati, a division of the FOX Digital Consumer Group, is looking for a passionate Senior Technical Product Manager who enjoys working in a casual, flexible, high-paced work environment.
At FOX Cincinnati, we develop the software and build the products millions of sports and entertainment consumers choose to enjoy. Our strong product development team is expanding as the demand for
digital entertainment continues to grow. Now's your chance to get into the sports and entertainment industry while also advancing your creative and technical skills.
Mobile development, platform development, web development -- it's all happening now.
Are you the kind of person who checks scores during meetings, debates player stats with friends, and lights up when your team pulls off a clutch win? Do you want your work to fuel that same energy for millions of fans?
As a Senior Technical Product Manager on the FOX Sports Digital team, you’ll lead the roadmap and delivery of the APIs and services behind our fan-facing websites and apps. Your focus will be on building scalable, reliable, and modern middleware solutions that deliver real-time sports data and interactive features at massive scale.
You’ll work closely with developers, designers, and stakeholders to turn complex ideas into seamless digital experiences. If you’re passionate about sports and excited to shape the future of how fans connect to the game—this is your moment.
Requirements:
- Passion: Strong affinity for sports, statistics, data and interactive systems
- Detail-oriented: Comprehensive problem-solving including edge case analysis, future proofing and maintainability
- Communication: Must be a strong a strong communicator, both written and oral
- Technical focus: Go deep to comprehend technical workflows, documentation, conversations, etc.
- API Fluency: Strong familiarity with reading and modeling RESTful API
- Self-Motivated: Hunger to be the best and a key cog in a successful collection of teams
- Proactive: Must keep the team ahead of downstream client needs
- Innovative Mindset: A passion for exploring approaches to improve performance and elevate user experience.
- Embraces AI: Utilizes AI, where appropriate, to bolster individual and team efficiency
- Collaborative Spirit: Ability to work effectively within a team, contributing ideas and solutions while valuing collective success.
- Continuous improvement: Willingness to adapt to evolving technologies and embrace learning opportunities
- FOX Tech is a globally distributed team; You’ll need to be open to attending occasional meetings and/or trouble shooting sessions outside your normal work hours.
- Significant experience with Postman, Swagger, Charles and similar tools
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web essentials
Responsibilities:
- Integration Analysis: Evaluate feature designs to understand the data and model needs to efficiently power user-facing products
- Documentation: Author data contracts, system designs, user stories, product briefs, etc.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to address technical challenges, ensuring optimal product performance and seamless user experiences
- Prioritization: Assess business needs, roadmaps schedules and prioritize accordingly
- Scalability: Contribute to designing, optimizing, and maintaining systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and high availability, especially during high-traffic events
- Ownership: Own middleware feature delivery from conception to production release
- Enablement: Creates internal tools to manage systems to limit code deployments
- Research: Evaluate the competitive landscape to understand a problem from every angle
- Innovation: Generate exciting, unique ways to present information and solve problems
- Maintain and improve existing products incorporating feedback, metrics and analysis
- Participate in product brainstorming sessions
- Stay current on software development practices and the technology industry
- Stay current on sports products, topics and trends
What we're really looking for is someone who...
- Takes great pride in authoring detailed analysis & documentation
- Strives for team efficiency and productivity
- Is excited to show new features to friends and family
- Is always looking to improve, learn from and share knowledge with his/her peers
- Evaluates project scope and provides accurate time estimates
- Consistently meets deadlines, anticipates issues and raises concerns early
- Solves problems without being asked
- Enjoys working with others
- Is flexible and open to feedback
- Enjoys designing software, talking about software and using software on all platforms and devices
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
