Full-Time

AI Product Senior Director

Posted on 9/3/2026

FanDuel

FanDuel

1,001-5,000 employees

Fantasy sports platform with paid contests

Compensation Overview

$230k - $302k/yr

+ Annual bonus + Long-term incentive + Cash bonus + Stock program participation + 401(k) match

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Product Management
Machine Learning

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Requirements
  • 10-12+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years shipping artificial intelligence and/or large language model-powered products in production.
  • Demonstrated fluency building with modern artificial intelligence development tools, supported by personally built prototypes, agents, evaluation systems, model context protocol servers, or pull requests.
  • Strong technical depth, including the ability to read and write code, participate in system design conversations, and work in an evaluation notebook.
  • Working understanding of agentic infrastructure, including model context protocol, orchestration patterns, tool use, retrieval, context engineering, prompt evaluation, and runtime observability.
  • Demonstrated experience designing or operating evaluation systems for machine learning or large language model products at meaningful scale.
  • Ability to produce strong written artifacts, including one-pagers, decision memos, request for comments documents, and postmortems.
Responsibilities
  • Own one high-leverage agentic product surface end-to-end in collaboration with product managers and designers in technology and commercial organizations.
  • Mentor and coach AI product managers through pairing, design reviews, written critique, prototype tear-downs, and a shared pattern library.
  • Supervise multiple AI product managers in the AI Engineering Organization and raise the standard for FanDuel’s wider product management practice.
  • Own one or more workstreams, including growth and marketing, customer experience, product innovation, or enterprise acceleration, covering strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and outcomes.
  • Build working prototypes with Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, and modern agent frameworks.
  • Design and operate evaluation systems, including golden sets, offline evaluations, online experiments, drift and regression detection, and human-rater pipelines.
  • Partner with business partners, forward-deployed engineers, artificial intelligence software engineering pods, the artificial intelligence platform team, Trust and Safety, Responsible AI, and Legal.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into agent-shaped solutions that respect regulatory and responsible-governance requirements.
  • Write and maintain CLAUDE.md files, build model-context-protocol-aware tooling for the product management team, share patterns in writing, and pair with other product managers on complex problems.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by the Company.
Desired Qualifications
  • Track record operating as a player-coach, elevating peers and shaping practice without organizational-chart authority.

FanDuel runs a fantasy sports platform where sports fans enter daily or weekly contests to win real cash prizes. Users create fantasy teams made from real players and compete based on those players' actual game statistics. The platform charges entry fees for contests, which is how it makes money, and it provides live scoring updates and player news to improve the experience. What sets FanDuel apart is its large, US-focused presence, a wide range of contest formats, and strong live-updating features that keep users engaged as games happen. The company aims to grow its online gaming and sports entertainment offering by expanding its contest options and audience reach while continuing to provide clear, accessible ways to win cash prizes.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$435.9M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2009

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What believers are saying

  • April 2026 Pennsylvania and New Jersey poker revenue rose 48% and 58% after pooling.
  • Erin Andrews joined April 30, 2026, strengthening responsible-gaming trust and brand visibility.
  • FanDuel operates in 50 states with 17 million customers, supporting cross-sell and retention.

What critics are saying

  • FanDuel cut several hundred jobs on June 6, 2026, signaling margin pressure and execution strain.
  • Amy Howe exited May 6, 2026; leadership churn risks product focus through 2027.
  • A federal court legitimizing prediction markets would bypass state sportsbook moats and compress FanDuel economics.

What makes FanDuel unique

  • FanDuel held 36% U.S. sportsbook share in Q1 2026, leading DraftKings.
  • FanDuel Casino led U.S. iGaming share through 2026, peaking at 29.4% in November.
  • Christian Genetski and Flutter's interstate poker pooling span New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

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Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

1%
Yahoo Finance
Aug 7th, 2026
DraftKings and FanDuel claim prediction markets have 'low single-digit' impact despite 50-69% stock drops

DraftKings and FanDuel insist prediction markets are having minimal impact on their sportsbooks, despite significant stock declines. DraftKings shares have fallen roughly 50% over the past year, whilst FanDuel parent Flutter Entertainment has dropped close to 69%. Both companies missed earnings expectations this week. DraftKings maintained its full-year guidance, but Flutter cut its profit forecast by 22%. Despite this, shares rose following second-quarter results—DraftKings up around 6% and Flutter up over 2% by mid-afternoon Friday. DraftKings reports "no discernible impact" from prediction markets, with only 1% customer overlap with the largest prediction-market operator in legal sports betting states. FanDuel has seen a "low single-digit" impact. Both companies launched their own prediction-market platforms late last year, focusing on states without legal sports betting. DraftKings says its platform is "growing faster than anticipated".

Yahoo Finance
Jun 12th, 2026
FanDuel owner Flutter to delist from London Stock Exchange on 3 August

Flutter Entertainment will delist from the London Stock Exchange on 3 August, making the New York Stock Exchange its sole primary trading venue. The company's shares will trade on the LSE for the last time on 31 July. The FanDuel owner cited low LSE trading volumes, listing costs and ongoing UK regulatory obligations in its decision. Flutter moved its primary listing from London to New York in 2024, driven by FanDuel's accelerating growth in the US sports betting market, where the company now expects to generate the largest share of its profits. The delisting follows other significant changes at Flutter, including the departure of FanDuel CEO Amy Howe in May after five years leading the brand's expansion from 10 to 26 US states. Flutter carries a market capitalisation of approximately $19 billion.

Yahoo Finance
Jun 8th, 2026
FanDuel cuts hundreds of jobs amid sports betting industry pressures

FanDuel laid off several hundred employees on Friday, affecting roughly 5% of its 5,000-strong workforce. The cuts impacted staff across business development, operations, customer service, social media and engineering departments. In internal emails, executives said the layoffs were necessary to execute long-term strategy but don't reflect financial concerns. The timing contrasts sharply with FanDuel's expensive promotional event in Times Square for the NBA Finals just days later. The redundancies follow previous cuts, including over 100 jobs lost when FanDuel TV was phased out last year. The company also ousted CEO Amy Howe in May after parent company Flutter missed Wall Street expectations. Some former employees suggested the company's spending on influencers and television deals contributed to the cuts.

Yahoo Finance
Jun 8th, 2026
FanDuel cuts hundreds of jobs in third round of layoffs within a year

FanDuel has conducted its third round of layoffs in less than a year, cutting several hundred employees across software engineering, customer service and business development. The cuts affected staff at various levels, including long-serving managers and employees who joined when FanDuel was a daily fantasy sports company. The sportsbook, owned by Flutter Entertainment, employs approximately 5,000 people, suggesting the layoffs represent 5% to 10% of its workforce. Previous rounds occurred in November and March, when FanDuel announced it would sunset its TV network, affecting over 100 employees. CEO Amy Howe departed in May after five years. A FanDuel spokesperson confirmed the restructuring aims to keep the company "agile, focused, and well-positioned" whilst executing its long-term strategy. The cuts reflect broader challenges facing gambling operators, including prediction market competition and pressure to improve profitability.

Yahoo Finance
May 27th, 2026
PokerStars' FanDuel merger boosts US online poker revenue 58% in New Jersey

Flutter's decision to merge PokerStars with FanDuel and introduce interstate pooling across New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan has delivered a significant revenue boost in April, the first full month following the 1 April transition. In Pennsylvania, FanDuel's poker revenue reached $1,034,096 in April, a 47.8% increase over the January-March average. New Jersey saw an even larger jump, with revenue of $769,600 representing a 58% increase over the prior three months, reclaiming the top position from WSOP Online. The move reversed negative year-over-year trends in both states. New Jersey's total online poker revenue rose 11.4% compared to April 2025, whilst Pennsylvania increased 9.7%. However, May's figures will reveal whether this growth stems from promotional offers or represents sustainable interest.