Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NCSA College Recruiting, part of IMG Academy, provides online college recruiting education, tools, and access to a network of college coaches for student-athletes and families. The Senior Product Manager will own the value and business viability of the Core Athlete experience, developing product strategy and roadmaps while partnering with design, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders. The role focuses on customer discovery, experimentation, backlog management, data-informed decisions, and improving the college recruiting experience through technology and AI.
Responsibilities
- Execute against and help inform the product vision and strategy for the Core Athlete experience, translating it into a roadmap where each phase of work builds on the one before it, not just a queue of features. Foster shared understanding of that vision and strategy across your team and stakeholders
- Build and maintain deep, current knowledge of the business, our athletes and families, the data behind their behavior, and the technology behind our products, and use that knowledge to spot the right problems early
- Own the backlog. Write user stories and acceptance criteria that make the “why” clear, not just the “what.”
- Partner with design and engineering, and pull in the right people across the business, to move from discovery to delivery
- Run experiments to test solutions before betting the roadmap on them. Feasibility and usability get tested early, not discovered late
- Track industry trends and the competitive landscape in athlete recruiting, and bring that context back to the team
- Stay fluent in AI as it evolves. Spot where it can change the product for athletes and families, and use it to speed up your own research, analysis, and daily workflow
- Build trust and rapport with stakeholders across Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Support. Use data and a clear narrative, not just authority, to align people around decisions
- Stay accountable for the metrics behind the roadmap, not just the delivery schedule
Skills
- Demonstrated ability to run product discovery: framing problems, testing solutions with real users, and killing ideas that don't hold up
- Working SQL skills. You should be comfortable pulling and interpreting your own data rather than waiting on someone else's report
- Experience partnering directly with engineers and designers as peers to move ideas from discovery to delivery
- Genuine curiosity about the business, the customer, the data, and the technology, and the judgment to know which one matters most for a given problem
- AI fluency: comfortable using AI tools day to day, and sharp enough about what AI can and can't do to spot where it genuinely changes the product
- A track record of turning ambiguous, cross-functional problems into a clear, prioritized backlog
- Proven track record of translating complex business needs into clear product strategies and roadmaps
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills. You should be able to write a one-page narrative that convinces a skeptical exec, and influence and align senior stakeholders, not just present a slide deck that restates numbers
- Highly self-motivated and resourceful, comfortable leading both strategy and execution
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments
- Comfortable holding a position and defending it with data, while staying genuinely open to being wrong
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally including consumer-facing or user-facing products on a sprint-based, cross-functional team
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options
- 401k with an Employer Match
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Group and Supplemental Life & AD&D
- Gym Discount Program
- Pet Insurance
- Wellbeing Program
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