Sr. Product Manager; Football

At Hudl, we build great teams.

At Hudl, we build great teams. We hire the best of the best to ensure you’re working with people you can constantly learn from. You’re trusted to get your work done your way while testing the limits of what’s possible and what’s next. We work hard to provide a culture where everyone feels supported, and our employees feel it—their votes helped us become one of Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces.

We think of ourselves as the team behind the team, supporting the lifelong impact sports can have: the lessons in teamwork and dedication; the influence of inspiring coaches; and the opportunities to reach new heights. That’s why we help teams from all over the world see their game differently. Our products make it easier for coaches and athletes at any level to capture video, analyze data, share highlights and more.

We’re hiring a Senior Product Manager for football who is accountable for the end-to-end success of large-scale initiatives, defining the strategic vision and translating it into market impact. This role leads cross-functional teams through both discovery and delivery, ensuring our technical outputs result in measurable business outcomes. This role balances being highly strategic and highly operational. We are building out our product suite and need someone to help us get where we need to go in the US football market.

As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll:

• Set the vision and strategy. You’ll define the outcomes and prioritization for football and evangelize the desired customer and business outcomes to your squad, release team, and the company.
• Lead discovery and delivery. You’ll fill the Product Owner role on a cross-functional squad, ensuring the Product Backlog is transparent and prioritized, and you will lead discovery to reduce key value, viability, usability, and feasibility risks before development.
• Drive product viability. You’ll ensure solutions are both valuable to customers and viable within business constraints, contributing a solid knowledge of constraints from marketing, sales, finance, legal, and privacy.
• Champion the user. You’ll live on the ground floor by regularly interacting with customers to gain empathy and understanding, synthesizing quantitative and qualitative information to drive product changes and improvements.
• Influence the roadmap. You’ll contribute to the long-term football strategy and roadmap for your product team, using data and logic to influence your teammates, colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives.
• Lead cross-functional efforts. You’ll collaborate closely with a cross-department release team to ensure the squad’s solutions are successfully delivered to the market.

Our priority is to hire someone for this role who lives near our office in Lincoln, Nebraska, but we're also open to remote candidates who live in the following states: AL, AZ, FL, GA, , IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NE, NH, NC, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY. Remote hires should expect to travel for training, collaboration, or working with users, up to 20 percent of the time.

• Experienced in product management. You have 5–8 years of experience as a Product Manager, overseeing a significant scope, a more complex product, or a larger market.
• An American football expert. You are an acknowledged expert on your target users and customers, understanding the competitive football landscape and relevant industry trends to inform your decisions. You can talk to a high school or college football coach and keep up when the topic of a 2 high safety defense comes up.
• SaaS experience. You’ve worked in high-growth software-as-a-service companies that serve clients.
• Process proficient. You have a strong understanding of product discovery techniques, knowing how to tackle and reduce product risks upfront, and you execute your Product Owner responsibilities effectively for product delivery and optimization.
• A collaborative leader. You work effectively with your squad and cross-functional partners, leveraging…