Principal Product Manager, Basketball Products

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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,

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ansforming product requirements into a practical, prioritized product roadmap.

• Prior experience as a basketball statistician, analyst, or a strong passion for basketball and basketball analytics is a plus.
• Degree or equivalent relevant experience required.

What Success Looks Like

• Basketball events feeds, statistics feeds, Performance Studio, and Next Generation stats/visualizations operate as a coherent, well-sequenced portfolio rather than disconnected efforts.
• Product decisions are consistently grounded in customer needs and data to drive our Genius revenue streams, with clear KPIs tracked and acted on.
• Cross-functional teams (engineering, design, data ops, commercial) trust the roadmap and rely on the PM as the source of truth for basketball product direction.
• Leagues, teams, and media/betting partners see measurable improvement in the quality, timeliness, and depth of basketball data and insights.
• The basketball product suite is recognized internally and externally as a differentiator for Genius Sports in the market.

The salary for this role is based on an annualized salary range of $230,000 - $270,000. This role will also be eligible to take part in Genius Sports Group's benefits plan.

We enjoy an ‘office-first’ culture and maximize opportunities to collaborate, connect and learn together. Our hybrid working models differ depending on your role and location.

As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits, we’re committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills, experience and career. Learn more about how rewarding life at Genius can be at Reward | Genius Sports.

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