Senior Product Manager

‍About ScorePlay

Our mission is to transform the way sports brands manage, leverage and license their media content. Founded in 2021, ScorePlay is the first AI-powered end-to-end media workspace designed for sports. We've co-constructed a software that helps sports organizations index, manage, distribute, and monetize their videos, live broadcasts and photos on a single platform, enabling their visual storytelling and expanding their online reach and brand. We use AI and data to tag content automatically, which can automate and streamline classification, distribution and production, as well as streamlining video broadcast workflows to better connect ecosystems.

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Over 170 sports organizations from around the world, including the Paris 2024 Olympics, the AFCON (CAF), Sacramento Kings (NBA), Swiss Football League, Volleyball World (FIVB & CVC Partnership), West Ham, Aston Villa, Brentford & Wolves (Premier League), Angel City & SD Wave (NWSL), Major League Pickleball, AS Monaco (Ligue 1), Real Sociedad (La Liga), NYCFC & Orlando City SC (MLS), The Amundi Championship (Golf), Freeride World Tour (Ski freestyle) and Stade Rochelais (Top14) use ScorePlay daily to manage and distribute their content.

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We’re growing

ScorePlay is currently recruiting for a Senior Product Manager to work in our Product team. You will be responsible for creating and executing ScorePlay’s product strategy, seamlessly blending user’s needs and business objectives.

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At ScorePlay you will be joining a growing company, take ownership and autonomy of your work, and contribute to building a product that changes the sports media landscape. We will provide you with a range of tools here at ScorePlay such as Linear, Notion, Claap and Slack to help you with your work.

The position

As a Senior Product Manager at ScorePlay, you will be at the heart of shaping our product strategy and execution. Your role will be pivotal in ensuring that our users’ needs and business goals are seamlessly translated into impactful product features and actionable development tasks. You'll work cross-functionally to align our business stakeholders, development, and product teams toward shared objectives, driving collaboration and innovation.

Additionally, you will spearhead the setup and optimization of product management tools to enhance processes across ideation, prioritization, specification, and delivery, ensuring our teams operate at peak efficiency and creativity.

If you thrive in fast-paced environments, have a passion for driving product excellence, and want to make an impact in the sports and media tech space, we’d love to hear from you!

Why would you want this role?

• You will be part of a fast-growing SaaS startup with tremendous market-altering potential
• You will be given significant growth opportunities, with the ability to quickly develop and own part of the team’s work
• Every day you will solve strategic problems - both for customers and for ScorePlay
• You will have the ability to come in and add value quickly in a brand new role to the company

Key Responsibilities: 1- Drive Ideation, Prioritization and Specification Processes

• Own and coordinate the quarterly ****roadmap process with co-founders and stakeholders, ensuring all topics align with product and tech OKRs.
• Set-up the proper processes to include your teams and stakeholders in the process of gathering ideas, feedbacks and topics to include in your prioritization tool.
• Drive a cost / value short-term prioritization among all sources of inputs: users feeback, bugs follow-up, business goals, UX manager’s studies, tech recommendations.
• Maintain an organized, clean, and prioritized backlog.
• Ensure proper creation of user stories and tickets’ specifications.

2- Coordinate the delivery process

• Lead tickets refinement and sprint planning for both feature teams.
• Act as a facilitator during the sprint period.
• Ensure the execution of QA processes.
• Follow the success of your features with data.

3- Build and lead a strong tribe

• Leadership: Act as a unifying leader, ensuring product and tech teams operate cohesively as one unit.
• Organizational Development: Propose and implement organizational changes in alignment with leadership.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with the UX/UI team to align priorities and development cycles.

4- Align Product with Business Teams (CS/Sales)

• Alignement with clients’ needs and calendar through CS: Make sure priotization takes into account CS feedback on users’ expectations.
• Sales Support: Guide and assist the Sales team with lead management processes, providing all product news and updates.
• Feedback Loop: Implement and manage processes for gathering user feedback to enhance the user journey.
• Communication: Deliver clear and transparent updates on product and tech priorities to all teams.

Qualifications:

• At least 6 years of experience as a Product Manager and has a strong track record of success within a SaaS, B2B startup environments.
• Proven ability to lead product’s processes (ideation, prioritization, project management, testing) and assist the development workflows.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with a track record of successfully influencing senior stakeholders and aligning remote teams.
• The ability to align and lead multiple business functions while balancing different priorities.
• Ability to hold technical conversations with engineering teams and provide solutions to technical blockers.

This position is fully remote and we welcome candidates located in Europe.

Values

• Design thinking: We are rooted in design thinking. We believe in placing the end user at the heart of our creative process, fostering empathy and understanding.
• Ambitious yet accountable: Ambition fuels our drive for excellence, propelling us to set bold goals and embrace challenges. We are determined to push boundaries and our ambition is coupled with a sense of accountability.
• Two way transparency: We believe in two-way transparency where open communication flows freely in both directions – from leadership to team members and vice versa.
• Playful Professionalism: We embody the spirit of playful professionalism, blending a lighthearted approach with unwavering commitment to excellence.
• Autonomous Collaboration: At ScorePlay, we champion autonomous collaboration as a core value that shapes our dynamic and innovative workplace culture.

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If you think you have the right skills and identify with our values, click apply now so we can review your profile.

Diversity Statement:

We aim to attract and welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds and we are committed to providing a positive recruitment process, which respects individuality. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of race/color, national origin, religion/creed, age, sex/gender, sexual orientation, marital/family/civil status, disability, genetic information or any other protected class or dimension of diversity that is protected under the law.

As we are an international company, our main language in the office is English. Please send a CV in English for this role.