Full-Time

Product Senior Director

Discovery & Engagement

FanDuel

FanDuel

1,001-5,000 employees

Fantasy sports platform with paid contests

Compensation Overview

$186k - $256.3k/yr

+ Short-Term Incentive + Stock Program

Atlanta, GA, USA

Hybrid

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Product Management
Requirements
  • Proven experience operating as a Director, Senior Director, or equivalent senior product management leader, owning strategy and outcomes across multiple teams, domains, or a significant product portfolio.
  • 10+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated progression into senior leadership roles responsible for strategy, execution, and organizational impact.
  • Strong track record of leading leaders—including hiring, coaching, and developing senior product managers and product leaders who themselves manage teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to define and scale product strategy, balancing short-term delivery with long-term vision, and translating strategy into clear roadmaps and investment decisions.
  • Deep experience partnering with Engineering, Design, and Commercial leadership to drive complex, cross-functional initiatives and manage portfolio-level tradeoffs.
  • Strong judgment and fluency in customer research, analytics, experimentation, and market analysis, using evidence to inform strategy and executive decision-making.
  • Experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities, balancing scope, resourcing, risk, and time horizons at portfolio scale.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments, providing clarity, direction, and decisiveness when information is incomplete.
  • Recognized as a trusted executive partner, able to clearly communicate strategy, risk, and outcomes to senior leaders and influence decisions without relying on formal authority.
  • Experience and/or passion for sports betting, iGaming, or adjacent regulated, high-scale consumer businesses strongly preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree or similar higher-level education preferred
Responsibilities
  • Own and evolve the product vision and strategy across multiple domains, ensuring alignment to Business Unit objectives and FanDuel’s broader enterprise strategy.
  • Provide strategic oversight of the product portfolio, balancing short-term vs long-term investments, high- vs low-risk initiatives, and innovation vs operational excellence.
  • Ensure product strategy, roadmaps, and investment decisions are consistently grounded in customer insight, market dynamics, industry trends, and available technologies, including informed build-vs-buy decisions.
  • Clearly articulate product strategy, priorities, and tradeoffs to senior executives and cross-functional leaders, influencing decisions and driving alignment across the organization.
  • Champion the voice of the customer across verticals and domains, ensuring customer needs, pain points, and behaviors meaningfully shape strategy and execution.
  • Hold teams accountable for high-quality research practices, providing constructive feedback on research plans, synthesis, and how insights are translated into product decisions.
  • Leverage insights from adjacent industries and external markets, translating learnings into differentiated product opportunities for FanDuel.
  • Ensure analytics, experimentation, and customer research are consistently embedded across teams as core decision-making inputs.
  • Ensure execution and investment across the product portfolio align to strategic priorities, expected outcomes, and agreed funding models.
  • Oversee execution across multiple teams and workstreams, ensuring clarity of ownership, disciplined prioritization, and effective dependency management.
  • Set clear expectations for outcome-driven delivery, holding teams accountable for measurable impact rather than output.
  • Partner with Product, Technology, and Commercial leadership to proactively manage risk, sequencing, and tradeoffs across the portfolio.
  • Build and maintain strong partnerships with senior leaders across Product, Technology, Commercial, and other key functions to deliver shared outcomes.
  • Clearly communicate product portfolio strategy, risk profile, and innovation plans to product peers and senior executive stakeholders.
  • Act as a trusted thought partner to executives, shaping decisions through data-informed perspectives, sound judgment, and strategic recommendations.
  • Influence across the organization without relying on formal authority, aligning diverse stakeholders around shared goals and priorities.
  • Provide oversight across multiple product teams and leaders, ensuring alignment between individual team goals, domain strategy, and broader company roadmaps.
  • Lead and develop senior product leaders who themselves manage multiple teams, scaling impact through strong delegation, coaching, and accountability.
  • Establish and evangelize a clear product vision and operating model across vertical or horizontal areas, driving consistency while enabling autonomy.
  • Act as a go-to leader and subject matter expert for the domain, providing strategic insight, direction, and perspective across the company.
  • Foster a culture of high ownership, strong judgment, customer empathy, and continuous learning across the product organization.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience and/or passion for sports betting, iGaming, or adjacent regulated, high-scale consumer businesses strongly preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree or similar higher-level education preferred

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

$6.8B

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2009

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Flutter secured 100% FanDuel ownership via Boyd buyout, enabling unified long-term strategy through 2038.
  • 19% year-over-year iGaming revenue growth positions casino as high-margin growth engine.
  • Erin Andrews ambassadorship and Play With A Plan reach 17 million customers across 50 states.

What critics are saying

  • Flutter cut EBITDA guidance to $2.87B from $2.97B; bettor-friendly results cost $45M Q1.
  • Prediction markets siphon bettors; Flutter shares dropped 57% over past year amid competition.
  • FanDuel TV shutdown eliminates $2.239B Oregon wagering handle and over 100 jobs by November.

What makes FanDuel unique

  • Market-leading 41% US sports betting share with $32.4M New Jersey monthly revenue.
  • FanDuel Casino dominates US iGaming with 29.4% peak market share since early 2024.
  • First operator integrating Almond Digital harm prevention platform into Pennsylvania responsible gaming program.

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Yahoo Finance
Mar 27th, 2026
FanDuel TV to shut down by November 2026, cutting over 100 jobs as network fails to align with strategy

FanDuel TV, the linear network that originated in 1999 as Television Games Network (TVG), is being phased out over the next 20 months. More than 100 jobs will be eliminated by the end of November 2026, FanDuel CEO Amy Howe announced during a company-wide meeting. The network will reduce its workforce by approximately 60% at the end of June after completing Keeneland and Triple Crown coverage commitments. FanDuel's account deposit wagering platforms will continue operating. FanDuel/TVG handled $2.239 billion through the Oregon Racing Commission hub in 2025, holding a 32.8% market share. The decision reflects FanDuel's strategic pivot towards sports betting, where it commands a 41% market share in the US. The network currently reaches approximately 30 million households, down from 50 million several years ago.

Yahoo Finance
Feb 27th, 2026
Missouri sportsbooks generate $53.3M revenue in second month as handle drops 29%

Missouri sportsbooks generated $53.3 million in gross revenue during January, their second month of operation, according to the Missouri Gaming Commission. FanDuel and DraftKings led operator performance. Handle dropped 29% from December's $543 million to $385.1 million, partly due to the Kansas City Chiefs missing the playoffs. Despite adjusted gross revenue of $19.3 million, the state collected only $137,900 in tax revenue as most operators carried forward December losses. Parlay wagers drove results, accounting for 60% of total volume and 67% of revenue with a 25.1% hold generating $35.6 million. DraftKings led with $22.8 million in January winnings, reducing its deficit to $3.7 million, whilst FanDuel earned $19.9 million, cutting its losses to below $905,000.

8 News Now
Jul 24th, 2025
Boyd Gaming Sells FanDuel Stake $1.75B

Boyd Gaming is set to receive a significant cash influx from its $1.75 billion deal to sell its stake in sports betting giant FanDuel.

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Jul 11th, 2025
Flutter secures 100% ownership of FanDuel through new agreement with Boyd

New York, July 10 2025: Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT; LSE: FLTR) (“Flutter”) the world’s leading online sports betting and iGaming operator today announces the extension of its long-term strategic partnership with Boyd Gaming Corporation (“Boyd”) to 2038 and the buyout of Boyd’s 5% stake in FanDuel Group (“FanDuel”), together “the Agreement”.

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