Senior Product Manager, Video Platform

Youth sports offer important life lessons that propel kids toward meaningful futures, including a sense of family and community. GameChanger by DICK’S Sporting Goods works to connect families via live video streaming of games, scorekeeping and team communication tools for more than half a million teams. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City intent on improving youth sports for all and developing our own teammates.

OVERVIEW:

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence – important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

At GameChanger, we score and stream millions of youth sports games annually. As the Senior Platform Product Manager on the Video team, you will work with a talented team of engineers to develop our video pipeline end to end to ensure we have a scalable and resilient platform to handle millions of annual streams. You will need to have a firm grasp of video streaming, recording, and encoding concepts to help lead iterations of our current live and post-game video capabilities for our internal product teams. You will work with your product management peers to guide user experiences that bring the magic of GameChanger to every team. You will report to one of our Product Management Directors.

Check out some of our current video capabilities at https://gc.com/live-video

What You’ll Do

• Lead the team through the designing, building, and supporting of our video capabilities, including third-party device support (such as GoPro and Mevo), mobile first-party live broadcasting/capture, ingest, transcode, storage, and playback.

• Partner with engineering and our infrastructure teams to manage a resilient, scalable, and efficient video pipeline.

• Collaborate with other feature teams to contribute to GC’s overall vision for video streaming technology, influence product decisions, and build video capabilities.

• Analyze external and internal user and business need through user interviews, data analysis, and market research and improve the live and VOD streaming experiences based on findings.

• Ensure that your team is prioritizing the most important and impactful work.

• Launch fast and iterate often with a talented team of engineers.

• Document and manage product KPIs to ensure they’re aligned and performing across teams.

What You’ll Bring

• Background in video streaming, with a focus on user-generated content live streaming technologies.

• Ability to partner with Engineering to evaluate and expand our current video ingestion pipeline.

• Solid experience with video ingestion, live streaming, encoding and decoding, and other software engineering principals and architectures required for a resilient, scalable, and secure video cloud infrastructure (we use AWS).

• Experience leading teams with a focus on collaboration and achieving high-quality product goals.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of experience in product management or product engineering, working with video or live streaming in mobile-first applications.

• Demonstrated experience implementing large-scale projects and achieving positive user outcomes across multiple engineering teams and domains.

• Experience communicating product updates, milestones, and progress to all kinds of internal and external partners.

• Working knowledge of software development cycles including infrastructure, continuous integration, developer tooling, open source use, and documentation.

• Experience with data-informed decision-making to lead the platform forward.

Perks

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development

• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly

• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe

• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.

• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match.

• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

• Family building benefits offered through Progyny.

• DICK’S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.

The target salary range for this position is between $160,000 and $180,000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

* DICK'S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @gc.com or [email protected]. If you receive communication from any other domain, please be cautious, as it is likely fraudulent.

QUALIFICATIONS:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.