Product Manager- Sports Connect Association
Stack Sports is a global sports technology company based in Plano, TX with offices in San Diego, CA and Atlanta, GA. From our humble beginnings as sports parents and coaches, we founded Stack Sports to transform the youth sports experience by helping other parents, coaches and administrators manage all aspects of their sports organizations. By developing easy-to-use league management solutions, we allow parents, players and coaches to focus on the game - not administrative duties. Our founders and employees wear many hats. Successful entrepreneurs. Loving parents. Sports enthusiasts. Community volunteers. Being able to juggle all the important aspects in life can be difficult as sports parents.
Our Stack Sports Product Management team delivers market leading software to youth sports governing bodies, sports associations, and leagues in North America. Delivery of these services requires work coordinated across the organization and multiple development teams. The Product Manager - Sports Connect will lead agile reviews across a couple of the development teams, manage team backlogs, work with stakeholders, inspire our teams to deliver, and outline a clear vision for future capabilities. This role provides a great opportunity to partner with the technical teams to deliver capabilities to support league directors and association registrars, to help association and national governing bodies further their mission to increase participation in youth sports activities.
As the Product Manager for Sports Connect, you will be developing and launching features that help solve the most frequent issues for sports state association and national governing bodies. Innovation in this area involves supporting our existing state associations while partnering with our existing clients, sales and account management teams to how best we can improve the product for our future clients. You can learn more about Sports Connect at https://sportsconnect.com/
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
We understand that no candidate is perfectly qualified for any job. Experience comes in different forms; many skills are transferable; and passion goes a long way. Even more important than your resume is a clear demonstration of dedication, impact, and the ability to thrive in a fluid and collaborative environment. We want you to learn new things in this role, and we encourage you to apply if your experience is close to what we’re looking for. We also know that diversity of background and thought makes for better problem solving and more creative thinking, which is why we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team.
- Outline a product roadmap: Set a vision/long term strategy for delivery of our payments platform.
- Engage Team and Stakeholders: Work across teams to ensure we are delivering features, capabilities and processes that can be deployed by our technical teams and customers.
- Own Go to Market strategy for key features and product launches
- Own the health of your product: Track performance by supporting the development of appropriate metrics and measurables. Proactively look into how to better the Stack Sports product suite.
- Creative Problem Solving: Many of the challenges we face, will not have an obvious solution, it will take creative technical collaboration to create a solution that the industry can adopt.
- Drive and Celebrate the Team: In the agile process, the PM needs to set the vision for a given sprint along with provide both energy and positive pressure so that our teams deliver the features our customers require.
- Embrace the Agile Development process: Work with assigned Agile teams on backlog reviews, daily standups, refinement meetings and sprint complete celebrations.
Competency:
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Displays ability to execute on projects and timelines
- Displays passion for & responsibility to the customer
- Displays leadership through innovation in everything you do
- Displays a relentless commitment to win
- Displays personal & corporate integrity
Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of software as a service (Saas)
- Ability to lead, drive consensus and deliver in a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders
- Ability to manage the overall project including rollout timeline, weekly deliverables, and key gaps or barriers.
- Demonstrate remarkable leadership and communication skills. You should be comfortable representing your team and championing your projects across the organization.
- Ability to make data driven decisions to drive roadmap items for your assigned product
- Participate in direct client and Stack Sports product team discussions to ensure product can be easily deployed and supported.
- Have a passion for youth sports and software product knowledge to ensure Stack Sports payments products are addressing the changing needs of our customers and partners.
Education/Experience:
- Ability to consistently meet or exceed assigned targets and deadlines
- 3+ years of product management or business analysis experience overseeing technology/software related products, preferably with SaaS products
- Experience with agile development methodologies
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of Pragmatic Marketing is desirable and candidates with PMC are preferred
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Experience with customer portals/panels is a plus
In Return, We Will Provide:
- Competitive salary plus incentives
- Benefits including medical, dental, and 401(k)
- Vibrant, fun and fast-paced office environment
- Comprehensive, hands-on training
We are unable to provide sponsorship for any visas at this time.