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The Role - Principal Product Manager, Basketball Products

The Genius Sports Product Team is looking for an exceptional Principal Product Manager to lead our basketball product suite. As part of the Data & AI product team, you will work with leading global basketball leagues and federations (e.g., NBA, WNBA, NCAA, FIBA, and others) to build, enhance, and maintain the products that capture, process, and deliver basketball data and insights to teams, leagues, media, and betting partners around the world.

You will own the full basketball product suite — AI-driven/automated eventing, Performance Studio enhancements, Next Generation Stats & insights, and Rich data graphics/visualizations — across the entire product lifecycle, from ideation and discovery through build, launch, and ongoing growth and improvement. This is an opportunity to shape how basketball data and analytics are captured and experienced across the industry defining the modern language of sport. You will be working at the intersection of computer vision, real-time data collection, and advanced sports analytics.

The ideal candidate has strong basketball domain experience and is seasoned at delivering modern, data-driven B2B SaaS products, is comfortable owning a diverse product portfolio, and can move fluidly between deep technical/data conversations and strategic, executive-level discussions. You will define and evangelize a clear product roadmap, manage cross-functional stakeholders, and drive measurable outcomes using both qualitative and quantitative data.

What You Will Own:

As the Principal Product Manager, Basketball, you will be responsible for a suite of basketball products spanning the full data and analytics value chain:

Basketball Events Feeds – Real-time and post-game basketball events feeds used by leagues, broadcasters, and downstream partners.
Basketball Statistics Feeds – Core and advanced basketball statistics feeds that power team, player, and league-level analysis.
Performance Studio – Driving a roadmap of continual improvements to our player and team performance analytics platform, including new metrics, workflows, and user experience improvements.
Next Generation Stats & Visualizations – Development of next-generation basketball statistics, tracking-derived metrics, and data visualizations that differentiate Genius Sports in the market.

Job Responsibilities:

Build, Maintain, and Grow the Genius Basketball Product Suite

Understand customer needs across leagues, teams, media, and betting partners; develop requirements and drive delivery of basketball events feeds, statistics feeds, Performance Studio, and Next Generation stats/visualizations.
Own the product lifecycle end-to-end — from ideation, discovery, and validation through build, launch, and post-launch growth and iteration — for each product in the basketball portfolio.
Define and evangelize a clear, prioritized product roadmap for basketball products, and communicate it consistently to internal and external stakeholders.
Collaborate closely with engineering, design, data operations, and business teams to ensure basketball product initiatives are delivered on time and on budget.
Provide strategic direction on data-informed, long-term investment opportunities for the basketball portfolio, evaluating tradeoffs and prioritizing in consultation with cross-divisional partners.
Balance investment across the basketball product portfolio across three horizons - Now/Horizon 1 (0-12 months), Next/Horizon 2 (12-36 months), and Future/Horizon 3 (36+ months)), ensuring a healthy mix of incremental improvement and longer-term innovation.