Full-Time
Product Manager
Posted on 10/31/2025
The Athletic Media Company
501-1,000 employees
Subscription-based sports journalism with premium content
Compensation Overview
$110k - $130k/yr
Remote in USA
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- 2+ years of highly relevant product management experience; experience at a fast-growing consumer company, especially within sports or media, is a plus.
- High familiarity with and love for sports and journalism.
- Strong communication, organization, and project management skills.
- Action-orientation: you succeed in part because you take initiative and get things done.
- Excitement about getting to work across product disciplines.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects.
- Ability to empathize with users.
- Comfort with data - analyzing data, deriving insights, and making data-driven decisions.
- Eagerness to try new things and learn - and a willingness to fail.
- Drive business impact, measured with specific metrics.
- Inform the strategy for your product area to drive those metrics.
- Identify initiatives that will help us achieve that strategy.
- Manage a roadmap that drives impact now and in the future.
- Understand the competitive environment and stay on top of great user experiences.
- Be a visible leader in your communication and action-orientation.
- Foster a highly collaborative cross-functional environment focused on shared metrics and objectives.
- Contribute to or lead collaborative, productive cross-functional working group(s).
- Execute on your roadmap with a tech pod including Design, Engineering, Marketing, Editorial, and other stakeholders.
- Work closely with the rest of the Product team to align initiatives and dependencies, so that we create a cohesive global product experience.
- Understand technical considerations, and work collaboratively with engineering to balance level of effort and quality + scalability.
The Athletic provides digital sports journalism with in-depth news, long-form stories, scores, schedules, and podcasts. It delivers premium content through a subscription model, giving paying readers access to articles and exclusive coverage by top writers, with updates on major leagues and international sports. The product works by offering monthly or annual access to a library of premium articles and podcasts through its website and apps; revenue comes primarily from subscribers, supported by partnerships and sponsored content. The Athletic differentiates itself from competitors by prioritizing high-quality, detailed reporting and smart analysis from top writers, rather than relying on cookie-cutter, ad-driven coverage. Its goal is to serve passionate sports fans with comprehensive, insightful journalism and to sustain its journalism by building a loyal subscription-based community.”} verkeerde_seconds_empty_rate: 0} // note: ignore any extraneous fields if present in tool input
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$689.6M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2016
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- The Athletic achieved profitability in last three quarters of 2025, validating NYT's $550M acquisition investment.
- Strategic partnerships like State Farm enhance Women's World Cup coverage, expanding audience reach and sponsorship revenue.
- Podcast expansion including 'The Playcallers' series diversifies content formats beyond text, attracting broader listener demographics.
What critics are saying
- NYT paywall integration cannibalizes standalone subscriptions, causing 20-30% subscriber churn within 6 months.
- Substack competitors and AI aggregators erode premium soccer and analysis demand, reducing $10/month subscription appeal.
- NYT cost-cutting targets 30-50% newsroom reduction, triggering talent exodus and editorial quality degradation.
What makes The Athletic Media Company unique
- Acquired by New York Times in 2022 for $550M, integrating premium sports journalism into major media conglomerate.
- Subscription-based model with nearly 5 million subscribers as of November 2024, demonstrating scale in sports media.
- High-profile editorial talent including Dianna Russini from ESPN and award-winning investigative sports journalists.
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Benefits
Paid Time Off
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Parental Leave
401(k)
Short & Long Term Disability
Free Subscription
Competitive Health Care
HSA & FSA
Commuter Benefits
Company News
The Athletic has raised $40 million in Series C funding to enhance its growth and content development. This funding round underscores increasing investor confidence in premium sports journalism. The news was published by Athletism Info and pksportsnews on July 31, 2025.
The New York Times Company announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire The Athletic.
Jorge Vilda, the former head coach of the Spain women's national team that won the 2023 Women's World Cup nearly two months ago, has been hired as the head coach of the Morocco women's national team, The Athletic reported Thursday.
Global soccer insider Fabrizio Romano reportedly nearly joined The Athletic's staff of sports news breakers this year.
Terri Ann Glynn joins The Athletic.