Product Manager, Applied AI & CV

The posting, as PlayOn! Sports wrote it

PlayOn Sports processes more than 250,000 live high school sports games annually across NFHS Network, GoFan, and MaxPreps. Through its high-priority Streaming Intelligence initiative, PlayOn uses computer vision and AI to transform those streams into real-time scores, player-level statistics, automated highlights, and coaching tools. The goal is to make meaningful moments easier for fans, families, and coaches to find, watch, and share while giving high school athletes greater opportunities to improve their game, showcase their performance, and be discovered.

Streaming Intelligence operates through two teams: Vision, which builds the computer vision and machine learning models, and Pipelines, which moves and delivers the resulting data. This Product Manager will sit within Pipelines and own how data from PlayOn’s models and external vendors is reliably stored and delivered into the products customers use. The role operates in a fast-evolving technical environment that includes both frontier AI providers and PlayOn-hosted infrastructure, as well as a rapidly changing sports computer vision vendor landscape.

The outcomes you’ll deliver

• Evaluate external vendors for ability to deliver high-quality player highlights across new sports and then build the pipeline to productize those highlights.
• Design new data pipelines that disseminate and govern complex AI and CV data to the customer facing parts of our business.

In this role, you can expect to

• Vendor Operations: Own day-to-day relationships with computer vision vendors like MaxPreps Advantage and Pixellot, coordinate testing and releases, troubleshoot issues, and track vendor commitments, delivery, schema changes, and performance for future renewals.
• Inbound Data: Define requirements and quality standards for incoming video, metadata, and third-party intelligence, including how issues are detected quickly.
• Outbound Data: Help design and then own how Streaming Intelligence data is delivered to internal teams through APIs, events, and other interfaces, ensuring clear and consistent data expectations.
• Sport-by-Sport Roadmap : Prioritize and sequence work across football, basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, and vendors; identify dependencies early and maintain a defensible roadmap.
• Product Ownership: Own decisions within Pipelines, bring well-supported recommendations on larger decisions, and take on greater decision-making responsibility as expertise grows.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner closely with the Streaming Intelligence Product Lead, Pipelines Engineering Lead, Pipelines Project Manager, Vision team, downstream product teams, and external vendors.
• Operate in Ambiguity: Help establish ownership, processes, and Product/Engineering ways of working within a new, high-investment AI initiative where responsibilities and workstreams are still evolving.

To thrive in this role, you have

• 3+ years of product management experience, ideally working with tec

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ving the highlights, we make it simple to stay close to the sports and the athletes you love most.

Backed by KKR, we build the technology that powers high school athletics from the inside out: Schools trust us to handle ticketing, streaming, fundraising, concessions, merchandise, and more so the people running programs can stay focused on the athletes and fans we all serve together.

We're a growth-stage company on a mission to make high school sports more accessible, more memorable, and more connected than ever before.

When being there means everything, we make sure you never miss a moment.

Why You'll Love Working at PlayOn

Product, potential, and people. We’re a leader in the high school event space, constantly evolving our product to meet the needs of administrators. We focus on solving real challenges, learning quickly, and creating impactful solutions.

This is a growth-stage company, meaning your contributions have real impact. You’ll have opportunities to grow your skills, tackle meaningful problems, and make a difference in the lives of schools and the students and fans they serve.

Our culture is built on accountability, collaboration, growth, and fairness. We don’t just show up—we show up for each other. Everyone wears the same jersey, and we play hard, make the extra pass, and cheer one another on. Losses teach us, challenges motivate us, and persistence drives us forward. We value integrity over shortcuts, choosing to do what’s right even when it’s hard. Together, we strive to be better every day—because we know that’s how we win as a team.

The Benefits We Offer

Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from

Dental, vision life and disability insurance

Employee Emergency Fund

Company equity (stock options)

Open PTO policy

401K plan with company match

Hybrid/flexible work environment

Note: Must be a full-time employee to participate in the company’s employee health benefit plan. Part-time employees and interns are not eligible to participate